A semi-news announcement today: Alessio Cavatore’s Loka – the Fantasy (or Elemental… tag-lines for this one keep changing) Chess game – is now available for pre-orders. #1 – What Is Loka? Earlier this year, I had the rare opportunity to interview Alessio Cavatore about his latest personal project Loka, a chess variant that expands upon his […]
5 Reasons Why Warpath Is an Awesome Game
Pictures and Impressions from Mantic Open Day 2013
Having missed every gaming event this year so far, and still holding a Mantic Ticket from the DreadBall Kickstarter, I headed to Nottingham for Mantic’s Open Day and DreadBall tournament. The DreadBall tournament was a blast, though I’ll keep my DreadBall thoughts for another post. However, even though I spend most of the day focused […]
Mantic Games – Warpath Deadzone Kickstarter soon!
Mantic’s Deadzone Kickstarter is live and will end on Sunday Jun 2, 11:59pm BST. Mantic Games is clearly on a roll. Alessio Cavatore’s Loka, which Mantic is publishing, closed yesterday with a whopping USD 104,172.-. Congratulations Mr. Cavatore!!! But Mantic Games is not about to waste any time not being on Kickstarter with something. After […]
Loka Contest Is Now Up On BoardGameGeek
Interview – Alessio Cavatore Talks About Loka
This is an interview with renowned game-designer Alessio Cavatore. Alessio and I talked on Skype about his latest game, Loka: The World of Fantasy Chess, which is currently looking for the support of enthusiastic gamers and miniature painters on Kickstarter. Talking to Alessio on Skype proved to be a fickle thing (or rather, my internet-connection […]
Competitive Warhammer 40K Does Not Exist
Competitive Warhammer 40K is a myth. It doesn’t exist. Never has. Who wins or loses a game of Warhammer 40K is not primarily determined by any intrinsic quality of the players, such as “skill” or “talent”. As a result, you cannot truly “compete” with another player using Warhammer 40K. Instead, Warhammer 40K is a very […]
Rémy Tremblay to Sculpt Warpath for Mantic?
It is no big news that Mantic Games is looking for the really big splash with their upcoming Warpath Kickstarter. First, to bring their game rules up to scratch with Warpath 2.0, Mantic Games hired former Games Workshop rules designer Alessio Cavatore. Now, to bring the miniature line up to speed, it seems they extended […]