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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[...]

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 Pinnacle Entertainment Group and Visionary Comics have announced a transmedia partnership that will bring Pinnacle's Deadlands tabletop roleplaying game[...]

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 On the heels of the news that Days of Wonder had been acquired by board game company Asmodee, the[...]

One of the things that roleplaying games do so well, much like fan fiction in a way, is to allow the gaming group to explore and play within worlds that they know from the television show or other media They can then take the stories in directions that they thought the show should have explored,[...]

Gaming, in many of the popular game systems, had become a lot more complex than I was interested in This was what had caused me to move on from the third edition of D&D, and what had kept me from engaging with the fourth edition or games like Pathfinder. Reading through the new Player's Handbook gave[...]

Steve liked the idea and I set to work. Fantasy to Pulp-Modern Translating the SIEGE Engine's class and level system to a modern rules set was surprisingly easy, partially because my gaming group play-tested the new rules set extensively, but also because the system just fits for that type of gaming. I know a lot of gamers are[...]

By Jared Cornelius Over the last few years the PC has been the place for interesting and experimental experiences.  Games with mashed up mechanics

By Jared Cornelius Well friends it's finally here, this is the last full week of August.  It's time to go outside and enjoy one last hurrah before the

That's a whole lot of sequels! Check out the mp3 of the show here or check out the YouTube version! If that doesn't work for you, you can check us out on iTunes and subscribe to us and get all of the episodes a few days early! Finally, in honor of Kris playing Gitaroo Man for the first[...]

Creators: Void Star Studios, Inc. Close Date: August 26th, 2014. Publishing Date: August 23rd, 2014 Mike McConnell writes, Tact-Tiles are a modular, dry and wet erase, gaming surface Made from durable rigid plastic, and marked with a 1" grid, Tact-Tiles were an ideal play surface for Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, Savage Worlds or any other game that uses miniatures. And[...]

By Christopher Helton And with day four, we wrap up our coverage of the "Best Four Days In Gaming." According to the people running the convention, the weekend long show had an attendance of 56,614 This is about a 14% increase over the past year's attendance It also marks the end of Bleeding Cool's first Gen[...]

For me, this is really the best part of going to a convention, whether for gaming or comics Being able to talk with and share experiences with the people with whom you share these common interests and fandoms. I started my Day Three earlier than I expected because I was asked to join an Escapist Magazine[...]

I can't wait to finish up this book and give it spin for the gaming group. I spent some time around the Steve Jackson Games booth, talking games and upcoming releases with company Chief Operating Officer Phil Reed I'm not a board or party game person, only only occasionally will I play a card game, but[...]

By James Edward Raggi IV Lamentations of the Flame Princess is running a crowdfunding campaign where you Pay What You Want for a full color hardcover

Kevin Hart (Ride Along) and Dave Franco (22 Jump Street) renew rivalries in this epic commercial for Madden 15. Even if you are not into football or

This teaser trailer is coming out of Gamescon for Alien: Isolation. Also we have a video that shows Sigourney Weaver (Ellen Ripley), Veronica Cartwright

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. Christopher has a crowdfunding page to help raise money to defray the costs for going to the Gen Con gaming convention and cover it for his Dorkland! blog and Bleeding Cool[...]

The next expansion of the World of Warcraft series, Warlords of Draenor got its release date today at an event at the Ace Hotel Theater in Los Angeles

By Christopher Helton Gen Con may not have officially started, but the Bleeding Cool coverage has been going on for a few weeks now. While today was mostly a day for setting up and getting ready at the 2014 Gen Con gaming convention, with the announcement of the winner of the fourteenth Diana Jones Award is the start[...]

It was a well-known secret that Robin Williams was a big fan of video games. He named his daughter Zelda... it was also known that he was an active player

We've got a first look at two exclusive cards for the Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. X-Men game. The two exclusive cards are Colossus - Phoenix Force a

If, however, you are looking for a game that supports a looser, more freeform style of gaming, then you should definitely check out the Valiant Universe roleplaying game Even if you aren't a fan of Valiant Comics. With the Valiant Universe roleplaying game you aren't playing a collection of powers or stats, you're playing a character[...]

Sony has kicked off it's Gamescon 2014 press briefing with the news that they have sold 10 million Playstation 4 units world wide. Gameinformer tells us

By Christine Marie Vinciquarra Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) has been expanding imaginations since the 1970s, but I didn’t encounter it until a few years

By Christopher Helton Gen Con is all about the gaming Each year people file into the exhibitor's hall looking for the hot new game, or to fill those holes in their gaming collections A lot of people don't have gaming stores that are local enough to them, so Gen Con ends up becoming their local gaming[...]

Dwarves, Mages and Barbarians jump right off of their character sheets whenever he sits down at the gaming table of frisky suburbanite parents, Linda and Brandon John Francis? best friends, sailor-mouthed John Alex and thoughtful jock Jason, bring roguish swagger and knightly nobility to the game. And the object of John Francis affection, the feisty Tara,[...]

By Etienne Dubuc   The hit online collectible card game Hearthstone probably released its biggest update since its official launch in March two weeks ago.

One thing that I haven't seen a lot of talk about is the First Exposure Playtest Hall being put on by the Double Exposure folks. First Exposure also runs the Metatopia, Dreamnation and Dexcon gaming conventions. Just a warning, the websites are ugly and a bit counter-intuitive, but the basic idea is this: First Exposure is an organized playtest system that allows publishers[...]

By Jared Cornelius Welcome back to Live(ish) From The Games Shop.  With San Diego Comic Con and E3 out of the way, it looks like we're finally in the home stretch of summer.  I know we have a whole month left, but one of the telltale signs of summer ending is the games release schedule is picking up.  This week[...]