It's Talk Like a Pirate Day! Well, for some people. Sept. 19 started at midnight GMT, and that's when Telltale Games began giving away free copies of the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island, the new installment in LucasArts' classic Monkey Island franchise. Telltale's latest episodic series is Tales of Monkey Island, a five-episode [...]
Read MoreThe latest expansion to the award-winning Serenity role-playing game is coming soon. For fans of Joss Whedon’s Serenity, the long-awaited Big Damn Heroes Handbook sourcebook, by Cam Banks, will be released this fall. (We’ll post an exact release date soon!) Everything a big damn hero needs to be a big damn hero, including stats for [...]
Read MoreIt's so simple. Brightly colored shapes of different sizes lazily drop down into your box or whatever and you have the time they fall to rotate and move them so they fit snugly into the openings below. No problem. Anyone can play it, even if they've never played a video game before. And then it [...]
Read MoreArtist Jonathan Baldwin has created an extremely limited edition (i.e. 1 of 1) board game based loosely on Hunter S. Thompson's immortal tome, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Packed in a suitcase, you get rows of phenethylamines, game cards, stimulants, a board, hallucinogens, game pieces, petri dishes, adventure cards, a shot glass, and much [...]
Read MoreCourtesy Playmates Toys New Star Trek movie? New Star Trek toys. It's a fact of life, a universal constant, a law of brightly-colored, polypropylene nature. "Thou shalt exalt every franchise movie, yea, unto the seventh generation, with a full line of toys, dishware, tie-in novels, comics, and commemorative plates, all of them limited-edition-collectible-first-run-mint artifacts to [...]
Read MoreNew from Margaret Weis Productions, a new expansion for the award-winning Serenity RPG. "Serenity Adventures" is an anthology-style collection of five complete RPG games written by both new and established authors in the game industry. In it, you'll find "Ghosts of the Rebellion" by James Davenport (Serenity RPG), "The Best Things Get Better With Age" [...]
Read MoreRemember how excited we all were when Multiverse announced they were doing a Firefly MMO game? Remember how we really haven't heard much about it since then? FOX and Multiverse have announced they're coming out with an online Buffy game, which is all well and good, and oh, by the way, the Firefly game is [...]
Read MoreThere a couple of different people/groups currently working on different 'verse maps that I know of, and it's gonna be fun watching them get sorted out. But in the meantime Josh Awtry of the incredible FireflyRPG site — where all the extra stuff you need to make your Serenity RPG amazing are there, for free [...]
Read MoreI've mentioned Stevo's Toys (formerly The Toy Smith) here before, but he's been adding more stuff. If you're making your own set of Firefly dolls or if you just want Ken and Barbie to have some protection against those shady Bratz girls, you definitely need to stop by. Stevo designs sci-fi and movie-inspired weapons and [...]
Read More> Chris says "Want to jump into the 'Verse and start roleplaying your own Serenity games, but you don't have people handy to play with?" > Chris says "No problem! Just get into the SerenityMUSH and get started!" > Chris points to www.serenitymush.com for more information. > You are welcomed into an online, text-based, multi-user world of Browncoats, [...]
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