Author: Jody Macgregor

Talisman is a powerfully silly fantasy board game originally published by Games Workshop in 1983—its original inspiration was a game about teachers competing to become school principal—which has gone through several editions and publishers over the years. The fourth edition by Black Industries, later revised and reprinted by Fantasy Flight Games, was also translated into…

Remember Candlekeep? The monastic library-fortress was the first area of the original Baldur’s Gate, a place for introductory sidequests like curing a sick cow, finding a book in a haystack, and murdering rats in a storehouse. Classic stuff, most of which I managed to miss the first time I played it because I was naive…

During this year’s Warhammer Skulls event it was confirmed Space Marine 2 will have PvP multiplayer and a three-player co-op mode separate from the main campaign, which will also have its own co-op mode. So that’s nice. But the thing that’s got me hot and bothered is the announcement of a follow-up to Warhammer 40,000:…

The annual Warhammer Skulls event is always a fiesta of good news for Warhammer tragics, whether that’s announcements of whole new games like Mechanicus 2, expansions like Forges of Corruption for Boltgun, or additional details like the separate co-op campaign for Space Marine 2. But there’s usually a freebie to go along with it, and…

“The bloody-mindedness, the dogged determination to make the sort of game that I might have sketched on lined paper while I was staring out of the window at school.” This is what Andy Edser championed about Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun when he selected the retro FPS as his personal pick of 2023. “You are a Space…

Wesp, who you may know as the heroic modder behind the unofficial patch for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, has been on an uploading spree, providing us with a bunch of lost Bloodlines footage via his YouTube channel.  The most interesting of the bunch is a low-quality recording of a live playthrough with one of…

Irrational’s Freedom Force games celebrated the Silver Age of comics in all its goofy glory, with a cast of characters including a time-traveling robot called Microwave and a witch named Alchemiss. Capes evokes a later, more serious era: the Bronze Age of the 1970s and ’80s, after Stan Lee ditched the Comics Code Authority’s seal…

Of course, the one essential Baldur’s Gate 3 mod remains the one that removes the party limit, as is true of so many RPGs. But if I was going to download a second mod for my current playthrough, Gale Edits—Piercings and Beard would be a strong contender. There’s an issue with facial hair in Baldur’s…

According to a “reliable source” cited by Dualshockers, Creative Assembly is currently working on three new Total War games, with a licensed Star Wars game being one of them. Since Sega abruptly canceled Hyenas a mere two weeks after its beta, it makes sense for Creative Assembly to have shifted focus back onto the series…