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The list of nominees for this year's Origins Awards have been announced by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design: Best Board Game Abyss-Asmodee, designed: by Bruno Cathala, Charles Chevallier The Battle of Five Armies-Ares Games, designed by: Roberto DiMeglio, Marco Maggi, and Francesco Nepitello Cash n Guns 2nd Edition-Repos Production, designed by: Ludovic Maublanc Dead of Winter: A Crossroads[...]

He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc.  You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on G+ at https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherHelton/ where he will talk your ear off about gaming and comics. By Christopher Helton   In what will definitely be a big announcement for fans of board games, Mayfair Games announced at the GAMA Trade[...]

It’s always a happy day when a Loot Crate shows up on your doorstep! This month’s Loot Crate theme was Play, and I’m here to spoil all of the contents for

Flashes of originality are few and far between, and when they happen they stand out because they stand so far apart from everything else that you see in the gaming market. On the surface, Zak Smith's supplement from Lamentations of the Flame Princess may not look that original After all, Gary Gygax penned AD&D adventures inspired[...]

He has always providing challenging views and opinions of the industry and its critics as well as doing much to make gaming more accessible to the general public and D&D Live was another excellent example of this work. Considering his audience, Rab checked who had played before whilst ensuring the rest were included; explaining the game[...]

We have these for comics, for toys, for snack goods, and now we have this for tabletop gaming as well with Mythoard. I'll be completely honest…right now Mythoard is still in that scrappy early phase of the program There is some interesting stuff but the prices, starting at $25 for U.S domestic addresses, might be a[...]

By Phil Harris As gaming develops the technology developed to help create better and more believable worlds and settings advances and whilst some of this technology, like the Occulus Rift, may be in its infancy, the applications it can be used for are staggering. In the past industry turned a blind eye to gaming developments but as[...]

  Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters! You know the iconic movie and song, now take your love of Ghostbusters to the next level with an all new tabletop

He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc.  You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on G+ at https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherHelton/ where he will talk your ear off about gaming and comics. By Christopher Helton Modiphius Entertainment has announced that they have made a licencing deal with Conan Properties to produce a new tabletop roleplaying[...]

By Phil Harris Bleeding Cool were delighted to get tickets to Game Masters: The Exhibition, a fabulous trip through forty years of videogaming history at The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh The exhibition not only charting videogaming history but also allowing ticket holders to play over one hundred different games from that period. As you step[...]

Along with Gary Gygax, Perren created a set of miniatures rules called Chainmail that would later become the basis of a little game known as Dungeons & Dragons. One of the first three games published by the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association, which would eventually, become TSR Games, the Chainmail miniatures game was the first commercially available miniatures game for fantasy settings. Chainmail[...]

It was a glorious day filled with tons of gaming, and it's amazing how large the empire has grown since then… 1 Minecraft Board Game T-Shirt from Threadless.com ($9.95) I absolutely love the design of this t-shirt It's like Candy Land meets Minecraft A very unique way to show your love of the game. 2 Minecraft Light-Up Torch from[...]

By Phil Harris As a journalist there are always times where you come to an impasse, a point where you feel a change is due and need to state your point of

By Phil Harris The world of indie game development is as broad as it is tall. From keen amateurs developing their games in their bedrooms to larger more

Wii U/3DS Main Theme Dance Mix bLiNd – Whitened bLiNd – Rise N' Step (Batman) bLiNd – Bass of the Returners (Final Fantasy VI) bLiNd – Space Ace (Gradius 3) Thanks for checking us out and we'll see you next Monday with a new episode! Joe Cammisa is an unemployed nerd who spends his time gaming, hosting The SML Podcast, and[...]

He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc.  You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on G+ at https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherHelton/ where he will talk your ear off about gaming and comics. By Christopher Helton Dynamite Entertainment and Paizo Publishing have announced a new miniseries of Pathfinder comics to be published by Dynamite[...]

By Joe Cammisa [audio:http://joecam.net/SML/SML-e094.mp3] Monday night is here and it's time for The SML Podcast Episode 94: Black Friday Peace Sells, here on Bleeding Cool! Two guests this week as we once again welcome back what seems like a new co-host in Taras "Pappy" Butrej as well as welcoming back Joe "Henry Jones" Straatmann who won't be[...]

He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc.  You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on G+ at https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherHelton/ where he will talk your ear off about gaming and comics. By Christopher Helton Board game and tabletop roleplaying game publisher Fantasy Flight Games announced that they will be merging with the Asmodee[...]

He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc.  You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on G+ at https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherHelton/ where he will talk your ear off about gaming and comics. By Christopher Helton Outland Entertainment and award-winning novelist/game designer Matt Forbeck announced an upcoming role playing game adapting Forbeck's Shotguns & Sorcery series[...]

By Dan Celko The Dedicated Server is a YouTube news show here to keep you informed about gaming, talk about the implications for related fandoms, and tell you what we think about it Feel free to check out our channel and subscribe so you don't miss a thing! This week we talk about: We are back people!!! After[...]

He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc.  You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on G+ at https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherHelton/ where he will talk your ear off about gaming and comics. By Christopher Helton Mike Mearls, the head of Research & Development for Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast did an[...]

By Madeline Ricchiuto 505 Games held a media showcase to show off their newest titles at New York Comic Con, including the expanded How to Survive: Storm

Not only is it a selection of songs from their Songs for the Recently Deceased album, IT'S THE ENTIRE ALBUM! That's right, start to finish, you get to hear the entire thing and then you can head over to Amazon, iTunes, or the Google Play Store and buy it for yourself! The OneUps – Dance Off[...]

Death is everywhere in gaming For example, That number could include the amount of Goombas you've jumped on and Space Invaders you've shot If you take in every literal death you've caused, it isn't hard to believe that that number could quite literally fill a small country. But how many of those millions of deaths have[...]

For Anda it's gaming, for me it was fandoms and art communities. CH: What graphic novel or comic(s) have inspired you recently? JW: There are so many! Off the top of my head, for graphic novels: This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, Through the Woods by Emily Carroll, How to be Happy by Eleanor Davis,[...]

By Christopher Helton This past week our weekly gaming group decided that it was time to start up a new game, playing the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons We waited because I wanted the new Monster Manual in hand before we started playing It was a fun first session, and two of the characters were[...]

Patrick Dane writes for Bleeding Cool: H. P. Lovecraft inspired games are hard to do. There are some exceptions to this rule with Call of Cthulu: Dark

He is also the co-publisher at the ENnie Award winning Battlefield Press, Inc.  You can find him on Twitter at @dorkland and on G+ at https://plus.google.com/+ChristopherHelton/ where he will talk your ear off about gaming and comics. By Christopher Helton   Back at Gen Con, Pinnacle Entertainment Group announced that they were moving their Savage Worlds game books from having two sizes (a[...]

Denise Dorman is the wife of famed comic book/sci-fi/fantasy illustrator Dave Dorman. She is a regular at comic conventions, accompanying her husband.

While the news was met with the expected amount of cynicism and internet troll hate-mongering, Marvel's continued efforts to branch beyond the white male hero have been met with overwhelmingly positive responses and continued commercial success. This, however, contrasted sharply with the dialogue that has dominated gaming forums since this May's E3 Ubisoft stirred a hornet's[...]