Month: May 2016

6 Dark Gaming Delights We’re Looking Forward To At The UK Games Expo

Rejoice! We will be going undercover at the UK Games Expo from June 3rd to the 5th to bring you the latest dark offerings in tabletop gaming. We’ll be shaking down game designers for sneak peaks and early looks. Shaking them like a nanny possessed (h/t Dr. Orpheus)! Here are the top 6 things we’re looking forward to at…


Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Spiderlight Tears Up The Heroic Fantasy Rulebook

British author Adrian Tchaikovsky’s stand-alone fantasy novel Spiderlight is a rip-roaring, old-fashioned heroic fantasy romp that also messes playfully with some of the genre’s more outdated conventions. The initial set-up comes straight out of the Dungeons and Dragons tie-in novels of the 1980s: an adventuring party (a cleric of the one true God, an arrogant knight, a speedy ranger,…


Derren Brown – From Mental Trickery to Social Commentary

Last night I went to a faith healing – the lame walked again, the half-blind cast their glasses aside and read with ease, and decades-old medical complaints vanished, leaving their sufferers blissfully free of pain for the first time in years. People spoke in tongues, demons were cast out, and God was invoked, along with…