Dystopian Holdings is easily my favorite independent board game company. Granted, they’re pretty much the only independent board game company I’ve had experience with, but that doesn’t change how fantastic Inevitable, their first game, is. Now, their next game, Clownpocalypse, is up on Kickstarter for funding. Set in a bleak world where humans are beset [...]
READ MORE »Bliss Stage visual novel gameplay alpha on its way
Those of you who’re still reading might remember the Love Is Your Weapon kickstarter that we mercilessly plugged. Well, it’s good news for the people who donated, since a gameplay alpha is on its way for those who contributed. It won’t be anything particularly fancy, just the first two missions and interludes, along with the [...]
READ MORE »Far West Kickstarter ending soon
Far West, a transmedia project including a roleplaying game, is having its Kickstarter ending soon. Now’s a good chance to contribute if you like the idea of this wuxia western mash-up.
READ MORE »Apocalypse World nabs top prize as Indie RPG of the Year
In a year when it seems that nearly everyone and their dog has written some kind of Apocalypse World hack, it won’t come as any great surprise that AW took top honors as the Indie RPG of the Year, but it’s still an honor well-deserved. And as for the other games that were nominated (including [...]
READ MORE »Margaret Weis Productions acquires Marvel license
I know, I know–you’d think that all that’s going on in the gaming world these days is license acquisitions, but Gen Con’s happening and that’s the time when companies like to make fancy announcements. Like this one: Margaret Weis Productions, the publisher of the extremely excellent Smallville and Leverage RPGs, has acquired the rights to [...]
READ MORE »Wyrd releases new products early for Gen Con
Gen Con’s started up, with all the announcements and releases that come along with it. While the news is going to keep coming straight to your monitors over the course of the weekend, with any luck, most of us are out in the cold when it comes to exclusive limited editions and early releases. Wyrd [...]
READ MORE »Fantasy Flight announces Star Wars gaming license
After a year and a half of speculation over who would pick up the ball after Wizards of the Coast calmly deposited it on the ground (including such out-of-left-field guesses as Luke Crane), Fantasy Flight made an official announcement today regarding their acquisition of the Star Wars license and the first two entries in the [...]
READ MORE »Puppet Wars website is live
Do you like steampunk, Victorian horror, and/or fantasy? You might probably like Malifaux, a skirmish-level miniatures game from Wyrd Games. But if you like those, but aren’t into miniatures wargames, Puppet Wars might be a little more up your alley. You’ve got good-looking models that require practically no assembly, a board with spaces so you [...]
READ MORE »(D)ice Age Faces Injuction From 20th Century Fox
Dice Age, the unique dice game that raised over $30,000 on Kickstarter, has run into a potential snag at the hands of 20th Century Fox. In an update to the Kickstarter page, designer Tristan Convert announced that the movie studio was trying to block his registration of the name “Dice Age” because they felt it [...]
READ MORE »Interview with Bliss Stage Creator Ben Lehman
This interview was conducted for Cel*Style Week, but due to a human error, it was not yet posted. GC: Alright, could you go ahead and introduce yourself and how you happened to get involved in Cel*Style? BL: OK. I’m Ben Lehman, I run These Are Our Games. Which is about as tiny a company as [...]
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