Retailers Outraged Over Death From The Skies

Death From the Skies

Games Workshop has always been a divisive company, even more so for those independent retailers that build a part of their livelihood on selling Games Workshop products in their stores. Yesterday’s “surprise release” of the Death From The Skies rules-supplement for Warhammer 40K sparked angry outrage among a number of small, independent american hobby stores, mainly [...]

The Star Trek Tweets

The Star Trek Tweets

Slightly off-topic today. Great fun thought! Shortly after New Year, William Shatner of Star Trek fame send a tweet to Cmdr. Chris Hadfield, currently on the ISS and running a popular Twitter-feed with pics and details about life in space. Lots of Star Trek fun ensued. Though Twitter is a fleeting, as social media goes, [...]

Blue Table Painting Kickstarts Controversy

Blue Table Painting Service

Blue Table Painting is now on Kickstarter offering their painting services. Doing so, they take the simmering controversy of Kickstarter-for-creatives vs. Kickstarter-for-business to a whole new level. It seems the line between Kickstarter as a place to crowd-fund “creativity” and a peculiar second store-front and pre-order-page is getting more blurred each week. Will projects like [...]