04/11/2018 – 10/11/2018 What happened in the world of tabletop over the last week? Want a peek into the Australian game design scene? TGDA has all the talks from their recent DEVCON now on YouTube. Penny Arcade hit 20 years of existence. Feeling old yet? The free shipping beast which prowls the USA has caught […]
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This past week on the tabletop
11/06/2017 – 17/06/2017 What happened in the world of tabletop over the last week? Just because tabletop is an analogue format, it doesn’t mean that digital products don’t have their uses. Tabletop Tribe had a look at two such programs shown during UK Game Expo. Tabletop down! Well known custom tabletop manufacturer Geek Chic suddenly […]
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Penny Arcade reveals the new tabletop event PAX Unplugged
Who doesn’t want another chance to play tabletop games? The people behind Penny Arcade thought as much, and have announced the addition of a new PAX to their line-up: PAX Unplugged. PAX Unplugged will draw much of its inspiration from the other PAX events, though with a complete focus on tabletop gaming. With the first […]
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This past week on the tabletop
22/01/2016 – 28/01/2016 What happened in the world of tabletop over the last week? Prepare for enemies from all sides. Cubicle7 signed a deal with Games Workshop to distribute Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay products. Tabletop knowledge leads the charge. Nate Murray, former in-house product and crowdfunding campaign manager of IDW Games, has been appointed as Head […]
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A fathers look at Golem Arcana
A few days ago Gabe over at Penny Arcade posted an interesting article about Golem Arcana. He had bought the game for himself and his son for Christmas. In the article he talks about how the digital elements of Golem Arcana make it an ideal introductory tabletop miniatures game for his son. Golem Arcana is […]
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PAX Australia 2013 – Day 3
Here comes the final day of PAX Australia. But first, what I got up to last night. I went and checked out a documentary on board games, called Going Cardboard: A Board Game Documentary. It featured interviews with a number of board and card game designers mainly from USA, UK and Germany. They talked about […]
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PAX Australia 2013 – Day 2
First, let me talk briefly about last nights concerts. Soundbytes was up first, with a rolling set of chiptunes that started with Dot.AY, followed by Derris-Kharlan and finishing up, cTrix with his Guitari (a guitar Atari). These guys were great, and cTrix and his Guitari in particular took me back to a time of synthesised […]
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PAX Australia 2013 – Day 1
And thus it came, the first day of the first ever PAX Australia. But lets go back in time to the day before, briefly. I arrived in Melbourne, Australia well into the night. Weather had made my flight at least an hour late, so it was dark, wet and windy. Myself and my campanions headed […]