Byron Campbell | October 26, 2013
If there’s one demographic that knows how to get into the spirit of Halloween, it’s gamers. Every year during the month of October, there’s at least one spooky little gaming treat to get us all into the mood. In 2010 it was Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare; in 2011, we got Infamous: Festival of Blood; 2012 [...]
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Tags: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, board games, card games, Cheapass Games, computer games, crowdfunding, Cyan, Geek Haven, Get Luck, Glamazons, Glamazons vs The Curse of the Chainmail Bikini, Goblin Rocket Games, halloween, Hotline Miami, Infamous: Festival of Blood, Kickstarter, Kill Doctor Lucky, Mantic Games, Mars Attacks, Mars Attacks - The Miniatures Game, Matt Loter, MYST, Obduction, Prettiest Princess Games, Raindrop, Raindrop Studios, Rebuild, Rebuild: Gangs of Deadsville, Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare, Riven, Sarah Northway, SCALE, Steve Swink, tabletop gaming, video games, Witch Hunt: Ravenwicke
Byron Campbell | July 30, 2013
Wagooo! Welcome back to the Geek Haven, where we sift through the latest and greatest gaming projects on Kickstarter and see if we can catch a glimmer in the pan. In this installment we’ll be adventuring in steam empires, outwitting Russian spies, puttin’ on the ritz, erasing ourselves from existence, starting all over again, lighting [...]
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Tags: abstract strategy, Alex Harvey, Assault: 19XX, avant garde, Bastion, board games, braingale collective, Candle, card games, Codename Cygnus, crowdfunding, Dada, David Hayter, David Lynch, Derpy Games, dieselpunk, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Geek Haven, H.P. Lovecraft, indie games, iPhone, Kickstarter, Lioness, Logan Cunningham, Mechanika: Empires of Blood and Steam, mooosh, NanoBot Battle Arena, Paul Roman Martinez, Precursor Studios, puzzle-platformer, Radio drama, Reactive Studios, role-playing games, rotoscoping, Shadow of the Eternals, steampunk, surrealism, tabletop gaming, Tangiers, Teku Studios, The Adventures of the 19XX, Thief, video games, Xaos Publishing, Zak Ayles
Byron Campbell | March 13, 2013
Kickstarter, the sovereign of the people’s crowdfunding revolution, has risen far from humble beginnings. For 22 consecutive days in 2006, its most-funded project was New York Makes a Book, which raised only $3,329 over the life of its campaign, a hair over its $3,000 goal. Progress was swift, however, as chatter about the site took [...]
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Tags: alternate reality game, ARG, board games, board gaming, crowdfund, crowdfunding, fairy tales, GeekDad, Hans Christian Andersen, Jonathan H. Liu, Kickstarter, Meg Hunt, tabletop gaming, The Emperor's New Clothes
