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Category: Game News

Blogworthy: Star Wars: Squadrons, Life on Venus, Stargate, Bladerunner Today, Good-bye IE, Submarine Bases

September 19, 2020 Ken Newquist Blog, Blog Columns, Blogworthy, Game News, Games

Tor: A Games’ Short Star Wars: Squadrons Film Hunted is Everything I Want in an X-Wing Series – Damn you, EA … you’re making me want to love this game. On Venus, mysterious traces of gas tease the possibility of[…]

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Blogworthy – Dusty Betelgeuse, Book of Fiends, Dangerous X-Wings, Finding Black Holes, Snyder Cut

May 29, 2020 Ken Newquist Blog, Blog Columns, Blogworthy, Game News, Games, Movie & TV News, Movies & TV

Weird, dimming star Betelgeuse may have a dusty explanation – Ah, remember those bygone days when our biggest worry was a red giant star going supernova? Foo Fighters ‘Times Like These’ Quarantine Mix Is Unreal – I’m not crying. You’re crying. Danger Zone[…]

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Bunnies and Burrows, 3rd Edition Kickstarter

October 3, 2018 Ken Newquist Game News, Games, Role-Playing Games

Geeks of a certain age remember the novel Watership Down by Richard Adams, which told the story of a desperate band of rabbits fleeing their doomed warren. Geeks of perhaps a slightly younger age remember the movie based on the book …[…]

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Heroes and villains fight on a chaotic, G.I. Joe-like battlefield.

Red Lasers! Blue Lasers! Freedom!

April 5, 2018 Ken Newquist Game News, Games, Role-Playing Games

The Kickstarter for Freedom Squadron, a Savage Worlds-powered homage to 1980s cartoon action heroes, is in its final days. Inspired by G.I. Joe, Transformers, and their 80s brethren, Freedom Squadron‘s campaign looks to fund two setting books: the Commando’s Manual,[…]

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A view of two dozen role-playing game books.

My RPG Blogs Reading List

February 21, 2018 Ken Newquist Blog, Game News, Games, Role-Playing Games, Site News

Many years ago I used Google Reader to keep up with my various blog feeds. It wasn’t perfect, but it gave me a snapshot of the blogosphere while drinking my morning coffee and helped me feel connected to the larger[…]

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Pulp serial hero Flash Gordon stands ready for battle; the logo bearing his name appears behind him.

Kickstarting Flash Gordon RPG for Savage Worlds

November 22, 2017 Ken Newquist Game News, Games, Role-Playing Games

[… must … resist … Queen/Flash Gordon … reference…] The Flash Gordon RPG for Savage Worlds Kickstarter is live. Created by Pinnacle Entertainment Group, the Kickstarter includes the Flash Gordon RPG core rule book (192 page hardcover), the Kingdoms of Mongo campaign book (192 page hardcover), a 32-page adventure, a[…]

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A cross section of the RPG source books, card games, and bumper stickers I got at GenCon.

GenCon 2014 Gaming Round Up

August 18, 2014 Ken Newquist Blog, Events, Game News, Games, Role-Playing Games

I’m back from GenCon 2014. As always it was an exhausting-but-fun four days of gaming, preceded by a few days visiting with my wife’s relatives relatives in southern and central Indiana. Adventuring with D&D 5th Edition My Dungeons & Dragons[…]

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International TableTop Day 2014

April 5, 2014 Ken Newquist Game News, Games

Today’s International TableTop Day. Organized by Wil Wheaton the TableTop show and the Geek and Sundry YouTube channel, International TableTop Day is all about playing role-playing, card, and board games. I spent most of the day away from the table,[…]

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Scifi, Super Power Companions Available for Savage Worlds

January 27, 2014 Ken Newquist Game News, Games

The long-awaited Science Fiction Companion for Savage Worlds and an updated version of the Superpowers Companion are now available for purchase as PDFs, and pre-order for the print editions.

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iPad Board Gaming, Late 2013 edition

December 9, 2013 Ken Newquist Game News, Games

One of the things I love most about the iPad is how many board games have made it to the iOS platform. Classics like Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, and Settlers of Catan blazed the trail, but now we’re seeing another[…]

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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

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