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Three days ago, I posted an article criticising Mantic Games for their latest announcement of a special ‘Azure Forest edition’ of their bestselling DreadBall game. As pointed out by vigilant Mantic fans and by Mantic Games themselves, pretty much everything I said in that article was wrong. Worse, it was published prematurely and without the […]
There are many mistakes in this post, and it should never have been published in the first place. Please find the corrections and my apology here. What the hell is Mantic Games up to again? It appears that they are trying to take a page out of Games Workshop’s playbook by launching more limited edition […]
Mantic Games is calling for aspiring fiction writers to submit a synopsis for a DreadBall Xtreme short story… If you get picked, and submit a story, you can win a bit of money. More importantly, you can see your story published in an anthology along the likes of Guy Haley. Have a look! Mantic Games […]
Mantic Games 6th Kickstarter, and the second for DreadBall, ended tonight with a take of US$575,755,-. Well over half a Million dollars. That, clearly, isn’t bad (and still one of the top 100 Kickstarters of all times). Given the over US$ 250,000,- launch day, it was still perhaps below expectations / predictions, and less than […]
The Slaughterball Kickstarter has been stagnating for a while, now the project was canceled and is looking to re-launch later this year. #1 – Slaughterball Canceled The official cancellation message from Kickstarter… A new plan… Over the past couple of weeks many of you great Slaughterball fans have been posting and messaging great ideas to […]
Do crowd-funding sites screen their applications? Indiegogo, by most accounts, has been the go-to site for those who stay away from Kickstarter.com. The second in the industry (which includes hundreds of similar sites by now). Nevertheless, it appears Indiegogo let a rather obvious scammer through their net. There is a campaign fishing for dollars from […]
The guys from Mantic Games were kind enough to send me their press package for DreadBall Xtreme. If you’ve followed my blog, you’ve probably read about this particular Kickstarter before. Still, there are some nice new pictures included! DreadBall Xtreme Press Release Mantic return to Kickstarter with the follow-up to the very successful DreadBall – […]
Do you like miniature sports games? Do you pay homage to the Kickstarter-gods? If so, it appears that the stars aligned to put fans of miniature sports game in a particularly excruciating dilemma over the coming weekend (and the weeks thereafter). Not one, but two anticipated Kickstarters for miniature sports games are poised to launch […]
I had the honour of meeting games-designer-legend Alessio Cavatore at a Mantic Open Day last year, and the opportunity to interview Alessio Cavatore when his chess-variant game Loka was up on Kickstarter. Now, the game is out – since late last year I believe. Today, I came across a rather devastating review from YouTube’s (arguably) […]
As you may or may not know, I am a huge DreadBall fan and have followed Mantic Games for a while. Like most people, I also started the hobby with Games Workshop games. Both companies are based in Nottingham in the UK, Mantic Games in Greasly Street and Games Workshop in Lenton. Indeed, Mantic Games […]
