So this just in from the crew over at Spartan Games. Big models for February! Check them all out at our Flickr page, but here are some quick highlights!
Dark Angels, Dark Angels, Dark Angels. I keep coming back to these guys for a couple reasons, some of which I outlined in a previous post. But with all the Necron hype, and residually fading Dark Eldar\Grey Knights, there has been a slow simmer of talk about the faq’d Dark Angels. The sixth edition rumors [...]
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 [...]
RPGs Monte Cook takes a look at customization in Customized Complexity for Legends & Lore. Official Rules and D&D Errata Updates are out. Wargames New from GMT Games. Combat Commander: Resistance!expands upon CC: Europe and CC: Mediterranean by adding partisans and their war behind the front lines. This fourth volume of the Combat Commander series features special rules and components for [...]
Mantic Games, creators of the tabletop miniature game Kings of War and board game Dwarf King’s Hold, are in the process of releasing a new game called Warpath. Warpath is Mantic’s sci-fi setting wargame. Currently there are only two races available of the known eight in their universe, the Forge Fathers and the Marauders (Orx). [...]
RPGs Game designer and podcaster Nathan Russellhas taken a spur from NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month, in case you didn’t know, which is semi-organized each November – and proposed the complementary NaGa DeMon, or National Game Design Month for this November 2011. Russell proposes four simple rules for NaGa DeMon: Create the game in November. Finish the game in [...]
RPGs ICv2 has released its quarterly list of top five RPGs: Pathfinder (Paizo Publishing) Dungeons & Dragons (Wizards of the Coast) Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader/Deathwatch (Fantasy Flight Games) Dragon Age (Green Ronin Publishing) Shadowrun (Catalyst Games Labs) Once again, it is important to remember that ICV2′s “top lists” are often wildly inaccurate and fail to take in the majority of the market – [...]
RPGs From the monsters of legend, it’s the Lord of the Vampires himself… Dracula! Can your heroes overcome the villain and his children of the night, or will they join his bloodthirsty legion of the undead? Lock the doors and windows, get out the crosses and garlic, and prepare; Dracula is here! Mutants & Masterminds Threat [...]
Tons of new info for November dropped from the grand guru’s of gaming over at Spartan games: First up for Uncharted Seas we have new terrain as well as some sick new models dropping next month as a part of phase 3 of the US relaunch. A couple pics below, for more check out our [...]
Editorial Correction – I made a snaffu and mistakenly ordered the release dates for Spartan’s game line. The correct order is as follows: Uncharted Seas was first, launching June 2008. Firestorm Armada launched November 2009, and Dystopian Wars November 2010. Thanks to Gary for catching that! If you’ve been living under a rock for the last year or [...]
