Category: Features
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Book Review: The Scarlet Gospels
The Scarlet Gospels Publisher: St. Martins’ Press Cost: $19.88 (Hardcover)/$12.99 (Kindle) Page Count: 368 Release Date: 05/19/2015 Get it Here: Amazon.com I’ve always been a huge fan of Clive Barker’s writing, comics and movies. Chief amongst them all has been Hellraiser. I loved the first two movies and even some of the bad ones have…
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Book Review: The Siege of Naggarond (Warhammer: The End Times)
The Siege of Naggarond (Warhammer: The End Times) Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $4.99 Page Count: 35 Release Date: 02/27/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library Okay, at least The Seige of Naggarond is a better deal than yesterday’s waste of everything, Gotrek & Felix: Rememberers. Still, it’s odd that Marienburg’s Stand was thirty-two pages long…
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Book Review: Gotrek & Felix: Rememberers (Warhammer: The End Times)
Gotrek & Felix: Rememberers (Warhammer: The End Times) Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $1.99 ($15.49 as part of the bundle) Page Count: 6 Release Date: 2/26/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library Okay, remember the joke I made in yesterday’s release, The Bride of Khaine where I noticed the stories are getting shorter and more expensive…
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Book Review: The Bride of Khaine (Warhammer: The End Times)
Bride of Khaine (Warhammer; The End Times) Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $3.99 ($15.49 as part of the Quick Reads Subscription Bundle) Page Count: 21 Release Date: 02/25/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library Out of all the titles for Warhammer; The End Times Quick Reads Subscription, The Bride of Khaine the one I was most…
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Book Review: Marienburg’s Stand (Warhammer: The End Times)
Marienburg’s Stand (Warhammer: The End Times) Cost: $3.99 ($15.49 as part of the Warhammer: The End Times Quick Reads Subscription) Page Count: 32 Release Date: 02/24/2015 Get it Here; The Black Library Marienburg’s Stand is the second of the five short stories released for Warhammer: The End Times this week. This story is a prequel…
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Review: Abstergo Entertainment: Employee Handbook
Book Review – Assassin’s Creed Unity Abstergo Entertainment: Employee Handbook Author: Christie Golden Publisher: Insight Editions Length: 152 Pages Price: $45.00 At first when I was sent the Abstergo Entertainment: Employee Handbook (which I’ll just refer to as the Handbook from now on for the sake a brevity) I thought I was being sent a…
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Book Review: With Ice and Sword (Warhammer: The End Times)
With Ice and Sword (Warhammer: The End Times) Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $4.99 ($15.49 as part of the Quick Reads Subscription) Page Count: 50 Release Date: 2/23/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library Today marks the first of five “Quick Reads” for Warhammer: The End Times. Each day this week there will be a short…
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Unboxing the Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Collector’s Edition and New 3DS
If you’ve spent any time around our neck of the woods, you almost certainly knew this was coming; while I totally understand that Monster Hunter isn’t for anyone, I have a pretty big love for the franchise, so I was almost always going to be buying whatever crap Capcom and Nintendo released with the franchise…
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Unboxing the Reaper Bones II Kickstarter!
Back in October of 2013, I was one of the early bird backers of the second Reaper Bones Kickstarter. This crowdfunding effort raised over three million dollars and had nearly fifteen thousand people back it. Early this month, Reaper began to ship the Kickstarter rewards and on Feburary 12th mine arrived, right as I was…
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Diehard GameFAN Presents: The Snack Box Review – Japan Crate’s Premium Crate
As Podcast listeners and those who’ve attended the Mark B Writing Livestream may be aware, I’ve recently begun dabbling in the world of exotic food subscription services, due entirely to the fact that I love weird crap, and Japan makes plenty of it. As random item subscription services are becoming more popular these days (with…
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Unboxing: Cthulhu Wars
Back in July of 2013, Sandy Petersen and his crew at Green Eye Games ran a campaign for a new board game entitled Cthulhu Wars. The game boasted a large core game, featuring seventy-two miniatures and the potential for multiple expansion sets, and the game was a huge success. Nearly 4,000 people pledged 1.4 MILLION…
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Diehard GameFAN’s 2014 Video Game Awards
So here we are, at the beginning of 2015, looking back on the accomplishments, good and bad, in gaming for the year 2014. It seems, to many, that 2014 was not a great year for gaming, and it’s not hard to see why people might feel that way, frankly. This was the first full year…
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Diehard GameFAN’s 2014 Tabletop Gaming Awards
It’s the beginning of 2015, and here at Diehard GameFAN, that means looking back at the best of 2014 by handing out our yearly Tabletop Gaming Awards. I have to admit, 2014 was filled with a lot of great releases, be they pen and paper RPGs, tabletop miniatures or card and board games. Long delayed…
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The Top Ten Heroes I’d Like To See Added to the Batman Miniatures Game in 2015!
In 2014 I discovered the Batman Miniatures Game from Knight Models. I loved the sculpts and it gave me something new to paint and put together besides Robotech, Warhammer and Reaper figures. I purchased Nightwing, Classic Harley Quinn, Frank Miller Batman and Classic Deathstroke. Both sides were only off by 3 points and it let…
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Diehard GameFAN Presents: The Snack Box Review – Skoshbox’s Skoshbox
As Podcast listeners and those who’ve attended the Mark B Writing Livestream may be aware, I’ve recently begun dabbling in the world of exotic food subscription services, due entirely to the fact that I love weird crap, and Japan makes plenty of it. As random item subscription services are becoming more popular these days (with…
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Diehard GameFAN Presents: The Snack Box Review – Skoshbox’s Dekabox
As Podcast listeners and those who’ve attended the Mark B Writing Livestream may be aware, I’ve recently begun dabbling in the world of exotic food subscription services, due entirely to the fact that I love weird crap, and Japan makes plenty of it. As random item subscription services are becoming more popular these days (with…
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Diehard GameFAN 2014 Year in Review Staff Commentaries
So here we are, a few days before the end of 2014. As usual, several of the Diehard GameFAN staff have sat down and written up their own personal “Top Ten Games of the Year” list. This gives you, the reader, a chance to see each of our own specific tastes and preferences. It also…
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Book Review: Pwned
Pwned Publisher: Quiet Thunder Productions Author: Matt Vancil Cost: $10 (ebook)/$25 (softcover)/$50 (hardcover) Page Count: 234 Release Date: December 2014 Get it Here: Currently Only Available to Kickstarter Backers If you’re a tabletop gaming fan of any kind, you’ve probably aware of The Gamers series by Dead Gentlemen Productions and the off-shoots like Natural One…
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Unboxing: Horror on the Orient Express – Part One!
On 12/27, the first part of my Horror on the Orient Express pledge arrived, and since we’ve covered the re-release of this classic Call of Cthulhu campaign so much, I thought I’d do an unboxing for you, our Diehard GameFAN readers. Now, I say first part because things like my Mugs, physical copy of the…
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A Look at 365 Dungeons -2015 Daily Dungeon Desk Calendar
365 Dungeons -2015 Daily Dungeon Desk Calendar” Publisher: Fantasy Publishing Cost: $19 Get it Here: Nothing yet. Check the Kickstarter updates for the eventual url link FP will make Back in March I backed a Kickstarter campaign entitled, “365 Dungeons – 2015 Daily Dungeon Desk Calendar.” I thought it was a cute ide and so…