NewsGames
Crown and Dragon: skirmish wargame rules (game news).
There’s a Kickstarter for the new Crown & Dragon skirmish wargame rules extension, an add-on to the original Savage Worlds Crown & Dragon RPG –…
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November 2021
October 2021
NewsGames
Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (author interview).
Author Jon Peterson sits down with David Barr Kirtley to chat for an hour about Jon’s new non-fiction book, Game Wizards: The Epic…
NewsGames
Choose Your Own Adventure Books: their rise and fall (documentary: video in full).
Choose Your Own Adventure Books were a big thing back in the day, bringing D&D-like fantasies to the masses. Until they weren’t. What…
NewsGames
Japan’s massive computer game arcades are dying (video).
It’s sad but true, Japan’s massive computer game arcades are dying. Arcades in Japan are known as ‘Game Centers,’ and they are rapidly…
July 2021
NewsGames
Mass Effect – would it make a better TV series, or a film? (video)
Mass Effect is one of the most popular space opera games you can get for the PC. There has long been talk of…
NewsScifi
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: the toys that failed to fly (video).
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was a fairly popular scifi TV series back in the day, but boy, did the merchandising suck…
June 2021
NewsSteampunk
Steampunk stage coach versus the bison monster (model-making tutorial).
Our best model maker, Boylei, is back with another model-making tutorial – this time, it’s more Wild Wild West-style hijinks with a steampunk…
May 2021
NewsSteampunk
Go steampunk, young man, with the mech-wagon (model-making video).
It’s time for another how-to video in the model-making field, and this time, the enigmatic individual known only as Boylei, brings us some…
NewsToys/Models
Why your genre toy industry is dying (video).
Michael is here to explain why the toy market for science fiction, fantasy, and horror is on its last legs – especially in…
NewsGames
Airship Academy steampunk computer game (news).
There’s a new steampunk fantasy computer game coming out from Steam in 2022 called Airship Academy which involves a nice bit of airship…
NewsKit
More Power Loader : an article by: GF Willmetts
Since showing my building of the Halcyon model kit of the Power Loader in February, it suffered two falls and a couple more…
April 2021
NewsGames
Iron Harvest steampunk/dieselpunk strategy game gets an American-themed expansion – Operation Eagle (game news).
If you like your real-time strategy games with a dieselpunk and steampunk twist, then you are going to like the new Operation Eagle…