We have ventured forth, conquered the UK Games Expo, and returned laden down with news of the hottest upcoming and newly-released dark games for your tabletop. We’ve got collectable card games, board games, role-playing games, miniatures games, and even a nightmarish party game for you to bring the dark delights to your gaming group. Oligarchy…
Dark Souls: The Board Game Designer Interview
Three years ago Steamforged Games did not exist; now, they are sitting proud at tabletop gaming’s high table, flush with success after the Kickstarter campaign for Dark Souls: The Board Game. We caught up with Steamforged co-founder and Lead Designer Rich Loxam and Bryce Johnston (Junior Designer on Dark Souls) at the UK Games Expo to talk all about it. Brian: So,…
Break Out the Skulls for a Summer Halloween Bash!
It’s officially Summer – and while pool parties and cookouts rule the social calendar, some of us are left wondering, “Is it Halloween yet?” Not only is Halloween the best night of the year, but the morning after, still faux bloodstained and maybe a little hungover, you went to your local retailers and worked your…
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is a rip-roaring, old-fashioned heroic fantasy romp that also messes playfully with some of the genre’s more outdated conventions.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…
‘The Devil You Know’ by KJ Parker is a Temptingly Cynical View of Humanity
“I don’t do evil when I’m not on duty, just as prostitutes tend not to have sex on their days off.” So begins KJ Parker’s new novella, The Devil You Know, a fantasy story featuring a philosopher who decides to sell his soul to a devil after making a career writing treatises on the non-existence of…
Malifaux Immerses You in Steampunk Western Horror Wargaming
This time last year, I was done with wargaming, ending 20 years of involvement in a hobby that had even included a brief stint managing my local Games Workshop, and a much longer stint working its tills and painting its models. I was finished, my enthusiasm drained by Games Workshop’s focus on younger gamers and the…
Henry Rollins: The World’s Angriest Hippie?
Near the end of an epic three-hour performance at London’s Barbican, Henry Rollins described himself as a “tree-hugging hippie.” Strange words for the ex-vocalist of seminal hardcore punk band Black Flag, a man who was once notorious for getting into fist-fights with his own audiences. Has time mellowed the L.A. Times’ first choice for “angriest man in Los…
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