Friday 20th September marks the release of the game Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch on the PlayStation 4 (as a remastered edition) and Nintendo Switch. Originally a PlayStation 3 title, Ni No Kuni was a popular hit in the West back in 2013, and spawned an excellent sequel (Ni No Kuni 2: […]
Geekzine editor-in-chief Andy Jamieson, along with new contributor Graeme Wetherill, run through some of the April and May releases at the cinema, and tv/streaming services. Andy: Along comes a film like Detective Pikachu, something that utterly defies expectation. I went into this feeling curious to what fresh horror could be wreaked upon my mind. And […]
Nathan O’ Hagan is at the forefront of a an exciting new generation of British writers. His debut novel, The World Is (Not) A Cold Dead Place, is an incendiary piece of work, a vital novel of our times, described by the Liverpool Sound & Vision as capturing “a mood, a real sense of anger […]
The new Games Workshop boardgame, Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress is the third in the current series of Warhammer Quest boardgames, that started with Silver Tower back in 2016 (sadly now unavailable from GW themselves), and continued with Shadows Over Hammerhal in 2017 (with the original Warhammer Quest released back in 1995). Out this weekend, Blackstone […]
The creators of the Fighting Fantasy series of books, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, are two titans of the fantasy roleplaying industry. Prior to the breakout success of the FF books, they set up and established Game Workshop as the UK’s premier hobby shop, publishing the magazine White Dwarf (which is still going strong today) and […]
Fighting Fantasy at the Edinburgh Book Festival 2018 Last year marked the 35th anniversary of the release of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the very first of the Fighting Fantasy choose-your-own-adventure books. Since their worldwide bestselling heyday in the early to mid-1980s (20 million copies sold and counting), this classic series of books have been […]