Christopher Helton Archives

With the upcoming Lankhmar: City of Thieves supplement, Pinnacle Entertainment brings the worlds of Fritz Lieber's classic fantasy characters Fafhrd and

The universe of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and Warhammer 40K is one of the richest settings in tabletop gaming. Stretching across novels, tabletop  games,

Something very interesting has been happening for tabletop roleplaying games in Los Angles for the past week. Wil Wheaton's Tabletop web show started

By Christopher Helton In 2003 the Gen Con gaming convention moved to Indianapolis, Indiana. Will it be finding a new home again sooner than the 2020 that

By Christopher Helton Tabletop roleplaying and hobby game publisher Green Ronin Publishing announced a new edition of their Blue Rose game. Blue Rose is a

By Simon Berman Do you remember the feeling the first time you encountered something truly strange? Maybe it was the cover a copy of Heavy Metal Magazine

By Christopher Helton For tabletop and computer gamers of a certain age there is a certain level of nostalgia and awe to games like Pool of Radiance,

By Christopher Helton Reaper Miniatures announced a number of things for retailers at the GAMA Trade Show, but probably the "biggest" announcement was for

By Christopher Helton The big announcement from Asmodee at the GAMA Trade Show this year is that they are entering into formal Organized Play. Organized

By Christopher Helton   In what will definitely be a big announcement for fans of board games, Mayfair Games announced at the GAMA Trade Show that they

By Christopher Helton IDW Games announced at the GAMA Trade Show  an expansion for their translation of the hit Japanese card game, Machi Koro. The

By Christopher Helton With the GAMA Trade Show going on in Las Vegas, the announcements are flying fast and furious for tabletop gaming. Here at Bleeding

By Christopher Helton Car Wars. That's a name that instills hope and loyalty among tabletop gamers. I spoke briefly last year, during my Gen Con coverage,

By Christopher Helton One of the things that brings together the readers, and writers, of this site is the fact that we love comics. We love all sorts of

By Christopher Helton Red & Pleasant Land is a combination of a setting and adventures, ostensibly for early editions of the Dungeons & Dragons

By Christopher Helton Subscription services are a hot thing right now. Pay your monthly fee and have something cool and geeky delivered straight to your

By Christopher Helton Modiphius Entertainment has announced that they have made a licencing deal with Conan Properties to produce a new tabletop

By Christopher Helton All too often the co-author, or co-creator, of something big gets forgotten or dismissed, and the main voice gets much of the

By Christopher Helton Munchkin from Steve Jackson Games is sort of like the tabletop gaming equivalent of Lady Sovereign. You either love the game, or you

By Christopher Helton Who has the courage to stand up to the villainy of The Supreme Leader? Only the regulars of The Hideout Bar & Grill, it

By Christopher Helton Painter, writer and porn actor Zak Smith is a controversial figure in the tabletop roleplaying game communities, for some people

By Christopher Helton Dynamite Entertainment and Paizo Publishing have announced a new miniseries of Pathfinder comics to be published by Dynamite. Called

By Christopher Helton Sometimes I am a poor comic geek, but most of the time I am an excellent music geek. There are a few record stores (yes, they're

By Christopher Helton Board game and tabletop roleplaying game publisher Fantasy Flight Games announced that they will be merging with the Asmodee Group

By Christopher Helton When the zombie apocalypse happens, what everyone will be looking for is the pause that refreshes. Over on Facebook, I saw this

By Christopher Helton Outland Entertainment and award-winning novelist/game designer Matt Forbeck announced an upcoming role playing game adapting

By Christopher Helton Mike Mearls, the head of Research & Development for Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast did an Ask Me Anything at

By Christopher Helton In 2008, what would become Extra Life started when video gamers came together to send video games and gifts to Victoria Enmon, a

By Christopher Helton Art of the Game is a new, monthly video cast that is going to be featured on Bleeding Cool. Each month we will talk about tabletop

Phil Zoshak writes for Bleeding Cool: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak about Game Changer, a new nerd nonprofit program of Page 15, a