Collectibles news by Matt S. Good Smile Company is the specialist in producing those really high quality miniatures for all your favourite anime, manga, and games. They’re not always cheap, but if you’re a real fan of certain franchises, these form the pièce de résistance of your collection. Good Smile…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. In what will be a surprise to no one, Disney’s Skylanders riff, Disney Infinity, is off to a spectacular start. According to a report published on gamesindustry.biz, the company has sold three million starter packs to date. That’s just the starter packs, mind you, not individual…
Read MoreGolum Arcana might not be a name that means much to you, but if you’re a fan of tabletop gaming, you better hustle over there and drop down the biggest wad of cash you can find. Because this thing is everything you ever wanted in a game. Think Warhammer mixed…
Read MoreBack when the 3DS didn’t have much software to speak of, I found myself hopelessly addicted to Pokémon Rumble Blast. It was addictive in short bursts and offered a nice little level structure that had me wanting to replay levels over and over again to catch all the critters. Pokémon…
Read MoreDisney Infinity is one of the more interesting games on the way from the House of Mickey. It’s a Skylanders clone in theory, where players will use physical miniatures of a range of Disney properties to summon characters into their console for play. There’s going to be Tron stuff too,…
Read MoreTabletop strategy games being transformed into the virtual world have had a checkered history. When done well, these are fun and fantastic games – Shadows of the Horned Rat for Warhammer and Baldur’s Gate for Dungeons & Dragons springs to mind, but they are vanishingly rare whilst less faithful adaptations…
Read MoreTabletop strategy games being transformed into the virtual world have had a checkered history. When done well, these are fun and fantastic games – Shadows of the Horned Rat for Warhammer and Baldur’s Gate for Dungeons & Dragons springs to mind, but they are vanishingly rare whilst less faithful adaptations…
Read MoreTraditional turned-based gaming seems to be dying out and being replaced with games of Confrontation’s ilk – a squad based strategy game. Squad based combat that seems to be a heady blend of RTS (without a base) and RPG. Confrontation was the product of a tabletop gaming company that is…
Read MoreTraditional turned-based gaming seems to be dying out and being replaced with games of Confrontation’s ilk – a squad based strategy game. Squad based combat that seems to be a heady blend of RTS (without a base) and RPG. Confrontation was the product of a tabletop gaming company that is…
Read MoreYou may not have even heard of the game, but HeroClix is a pretty big deal. It’s a collectible miniatures game. For the layperson, this means it’s something like a Magic the Gathering collectible card game, only instead of buying packs of random cards in the hope you get something…
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