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Tabletop Review: Cthulhu Through the Ages (Call of Cthulhu)
Cthulhu Through the Ages (Call of Cthulhu) Publisher: Chaosium Cost: $7.47 (Free to Seventh Edition Call of Cthulhu Kickstarter Backers) Page Count: 75 Release Date: 02/26/2015 Get it Here: Chaosium.com So this is a cute little PDF. Cthulhu Through the Ages is essentially a primer/sampler of multiple settings for Call of Cthulhu. Now the seven…
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Game Collection Roundtable 03/01/2015: Project NightCry, There Came an Echo, Super Mario 2, DKC on Wii U
What did the Diehard Gamefan team add to their collections this week?
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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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Review: Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy+ (Nintendo 3DS)
More minus than plus with this update.
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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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Game Collection Roundtable 02/21/2015: Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (3DS), Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Sniper Elite III 360
What did the Diehard Gamefan team add to their collections this week?
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Tabletop Review: Cthulhu Britannica London Boxed Set
Cthulhu Britannica London Boxed Set Publisher: Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd. Cost: $89.99 Page Count: 408 Release Date: 01/13/2015 Get it Here: Drive-Thru RPG From the same publisher that’s been putting out the Doctor Who Adventures in Space and Time RPG that I thought was fantastic, comes another entry in the ever expending Call of Cthulhu…
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Diehard GameCAST: Episode 63 – Wolfenstein: The New Order, htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary, Roommates, and more!
The New 3DS XL and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate just released and we share our thoughts on that. Oh, and some other stuff happened.
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Review: htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary (Sony PlayStation Vita)
Scrabble gone wrong.
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Review: AeternoBlade (Sony PlayStation Vita)
AeternoBlade is ironically anachronistic.
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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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Game Collection Roundtable 02/14/2015: New Nintendo 3DS, Zelda Majora’s Mask 3D, Monster Hunter 4
What did the Diehard Gamefan team add to their collections this week?
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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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Miniature Review: Swamp Thing (Batman Miniature Game)
Swamp Thing Cost: 20.66€ ($23.38 USD) Release Date: February 2015 Get it Her: KnightModels.com “The swamp is my world. It is WHO I am. It is WHAT I am. I was once a man. I KNOW the evil men do. Do not bring your evil here. I warn you. Beware the wrath of…Swamp Thing!” I…
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Review: Dying Light (Playstation 4)
Miles to walk before I sleep. Seriously can I call a cab?
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Tabletop Review: Death in the Treklant (Castles & Crusades)
Death in the Treklant (Castles & Crusades) Publisher: Troll Lord Games Cost: $6.99 Page Count: 81 Release Date: 02/05/2015 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Back in December I did a feature/unboxing on the leather-bound copies of Castles & Crusades‘ Player’s Handbook and Monsters & Treasure. The unboxing included many of the Kickstarter extras from crowdfunding those…
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