The Week In Gaming
RPGs
Paizo has announced that they have started development on an official Pathfinder MMORPG in partnership with Goblinworks (headed up by ex-WotC brand manager Ryan Dancey).
Angus Abranson, one of the founders of Cubicle 7, will be leaving the company next month.
Visit e23 to pick up the very newest digital Ars Magica title: Lords of Men.
Thanks to some wonderful people, the Kids Need To Game campaign on Indiegogo wrapped up this past week, raising $713 ($602.44 after Indiegogo fees) – which was doubled to $1204!
RPG designer and editor extraordinaire Ryan Macklin really likes Unknown Armies 2e, and he’s sharing the love with UA fans everywhere! His new fillable PDF character sheet is now available for free download. You can find the form with a few pertinent notes on Ryan’s blog at http://ryanmacklin.com/2011/11/ua-fillable-char-sheet/, or just go directly to the form at http://ryanmacklin.com/download-file…t_Fillable.pdf
Wargames
New from Clash of Arms. Naval SITREP #41 covers theAdmiralty Trilogy and provides several new scenarios for the game series. Price: $6.95.
Preorder from Clash of Arms. Steel Typhoon is the next entry in the Command at Sea series and features 36 scenarios covering the biggest and most famous naval battles of WWII in the Pacific: Rabaul, Truk, the Marianas, Leyte and Okinawa plus hypothetical scenarios that challenge the players with historical alternatives. Preorder Price: $44. Anticipated release date: March 2012.
Kickstarter Program Offer from Valley Games. D-Day Dice Board Game depicts you as the Allied soldiers trying to organize improvised units for an attack against a machine gun nest. Each player starts the game with a unit of a few soldiers and nothing else. As the game progresses, each player will roll dice to collect resources and advance on the beach, sector by sector, while your unit grows stronger and deadlier. You will either succeed … or die trying! This is a Kickstarter Funding Program offer where you sponsor the product release.
Boardgames
Mark Kaufmann at Days of Wonder says that Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 2 – India & Switzerland is now due out in January 2012 in the U.S., while still expected to be available in Europe in December 2011.
Important Note
This is the final The Week In Gaming that you’ll be seeing here at Geekcentricity. There was a time when I posted gaming news and press releases day in and day out for three years. After a while, I got tired of it, and while it has been an interesting experiment here to do so again, even once a week isn’t as much fun as it used to be, especially when there are so many products out there that don’t get me personally excited. There was a time – long ago – when games were printed on paper and sold in stores, and boardgames weren’t played on iPads. Sadly, those days seem to be coming to a close – and with them, my interest in the latest trends.
At any rate – there are a lot of great sites where you can get your news when you want it. Far and away I wholeheartedly recommend Game Knight Reviews for excellent, if not the best RPG News Coverage. Purple Pawn continues to be the leader in boardgame news, as does Tabletop Gaming News for miniatures, and The Wargamer for wargaming news (if not a little heavy on the electronic side).
