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 [...]
Retailers Outraged Over Death From The Skies
February 17, 2013 7 Comments
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The Star Trek Tweets
January 8, 2013 Leave a Comment
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, [...]
Filed Under: Facebook, Social Media, Twitter, Uncategorized Tagged With: Buzz Aldrin, Captain Kirk, Chris Hadfield, Facebook, ISS, James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy, Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, Live Long and Prosper, Social Media, Spock, Star Trek, Twitter, Wesley Crusher
Blue Table Painting Kickstarts Controversy
October 21, 2012 2 Comments
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 [...]
Filed Under: Crowd-Funding, DakkaDakka, Kickstarter, Miniature Painting, Miniature Wargaming, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Wargaming Industry Tagged With: Blue Table Painting, Controversy, Crowd-funding, Dakkdakka, Dreadball, Kickstarter, Miniature Painting, Penny Arcade, Social Media, Soda Pop Miniatures