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Textorcist: The Basics You might think that you’re not into typing games – but you might feel differently when you’re typing Latin prayers to exorcise a common criminal of demons. Ray Bibbia is a renegade priest – the bad cop of Vatican City. He and the church have separated thanks to “artistic differences”, but this Private Exorcist still works around …
Story-rich, rogue-like role-playing in Sunless Skies Across a dark abyss I spotted a lone ship, engines firing towards me. I braced for another standard battle when I noticed the tentacles protruding from its rear. This was a terror I had not faced before. BY MATT TIERNAN, FEB 13 Share0 Tweet0 Share0 Pin0 Review Summary Game: Sunless SkiesPublisher: Failbetter GamesPrice: £18.99 – SteamSummary: Sunless Skies is a …
Glasgow Games Festival: What is it? A day of open board gaming in city centre Glasgow with demos, traders and a games library, with just under 400 attendees. It has been operating for a couple of years, and has a website: http://www.glasgowgamesfestival.com/ Glasgow Games Festival: When is it? The 2019 dates haven’t been announced yet. The last one was Saturday 17th …
Josh & Kenzie here, the first junior reporters for Coaching for Geeks, reporting on the one of the biggest comic cons in the UK and giving you our survival tips! When we were asked if we would like the opportunity to be junior reporters at one of the biggest comic cons in the country we couldn’t believe it. We had …
So you’ve arrived at a comic con, now what? So you have arrived at comic con, you have got your wrist band and just entered the exhibition hall, what are you going to do now? At MCM Comic Con there’s loads for you to do that will guarantee that you will keep you busy all day including that of panels, …
Puzzle your way to death with Suicide GuyContent warning: suicide, described in tasteless, humorous terms. BY MATT TIERNAN Share0 Tweet0 Share0 Pin0 Review Summary Game: Suicide Guy Publisher: Chubby PixelPrice: Steam – £3.99 Playstation – 4.49 euros Nintendo Switch – 7.99 euros Summary: Suicide Guy is that wonderful experience transformed into a puzzle platformer, split into just over 24 levels of varying difficulty. Each one has the same …
Coaching for Geeks Community member Matt Tiernan takes a spaceship for a spin in this pre-release demo of Between the Stars. This week I played around with the upcoming PC game, Between the Stars, which was successfully funded through a Kickstarter campaign in October 2018 with the game intended for full release sometime in early 2019. The game is described …
Hundreds voted in the Coaching for Geeks Awards 2018. Making their opinions known across multiple geeky categories. Congratulations to all the nominees, here are your winners and runners up.MOVIE OF THE YEAR 2018There were fewer than 10 votes between the top 2 showing that Marvel Studios got a few things right in 2018. In the fight between The Avengers and T’Challa there …
Oliver William Walker designs games at Just Add Water. He mets Robin to talk about his career, from college, through university, experiments with games, networking, and moving into the real world of work. Robin met Oliver at EGX, where he was participating in a ‘disabilities in the gaming industry panel’ as Oliver has bipolar disorder. The two touch on …
Lauran Carter Manages Communities From the heady days of Fable with Lionhead Studios and Microsoft, to the now of Two Point Hospital with SEGA. Lauran Carter knows how to manage a community to get the best from them, and for the brands she’s working with. Listen in to find out exactly how it’s done, and maybe start your journey …
It’s darker here in London’s east end and just down the road is where Jack the Ripper committed his foul acts. Only one thing can keep me from the terrors of the night…. YOUR BEST HORROR GAMES EVER! Did you pay for your misdeeds in the otherworld of Silent Hill? Perhaps you go back to the Amiga for your Horror Zombies …
The Coaching for Geeks Show returns! And what better way to celebrate Season 2 than with terrible heroes who got picked last for adventuring. You can listen in here or head over to our new home on Radio Public, or the old favourites of iTunes, Spotify, or most places that have podcasts. Not Stitcher though because they still suck at …
Games games games! We’re looking for a good time. Games games games! Get ready for my love (at EGX 2018). No, I am not Sabrina, but I did head to EGX 2018 at the beautiful National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK and these are my top 7 games of the show. Please remember that I love indie games, and you’ll find …
Azzy Chooses his Top 3 Picks of EGX 2018 EGX 2018 may be over, but the memories and the lust for forthcoming games lives on. Adam selected his top three games of the show. Thea 2: The Shattering MuHa Games The beautiful artwork of MuHa Games’ stand got my attention as I wandered around the Rezzed section at this year’s …
Why Dungeons & Dragons makes a promise of adventure like no other RPG I didn’t think D&D was the destination of my journey I’ve spent a lot of money on the roleplaying game hobby over the years, searching for something I couldn’t put my finger on – promise. Yet though my RPG shelf/ves have waxed and waned, very little of …
Hero Master: An Epic Game of Epic Fails comes to Kickstarter Sick of always being the best? It’s time to be the worst. Fantasy parody game Hero Master: An Epic Game of Epic Fails launches on Kickstarter this Tuesday (18 September 2018). We first encountered Hero Master at UK Games Expo and it REALLY piqued our interest. Designed and illustrated by Jamie Noble …
James Gifford, author and illustrator of Dungeon Diaries, returns to improve your Dungeons and Dragons encounters (also applicable to any tabletop roleplaying game PATHFINDER FOR LIFE! – Ed: Robin) ENHANCING YOUR DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ENCOUNTERS Back when I was a baby goblin, I used to play Dungeon Crawler game like Torchlight and Dungeon Siege. I remember thinking they were the …
Gaming Addiction: What’s The Problem? Robert House, the Coaching for Geeks health correspondent, talks about the evidence behind the WHO’s recent classification of a Gaming Disorder. Today I want to talk to you about the World Health Organisation (WHO) classifying gaming as a disorder. I wanted to let the heat die off a little and start a conversation …
Cats! Magic! Building! And Dreamz (crazy of course)! It’s a MagiCats Builder Review MagiCats Builder; A game of randomness, player creativity and best of all, cats! It is a free to play game that’s available on PC via Steam and it is also available on mobile via the Apple Store and Google Play. Little Big Catnip? < ...
Who Am I To Be Writing About Turning Geeks Into Superheroes Through Tabletop RPGs? When I started writing articles for Coaching for Geeks, I decided I wanted to continue with an article about helping folks bring out their own gaming superheroes. But I think it’s worth talking about me and where I’m at, so that you get a better …
BIG Festival 2018 Brazil’s Independent Games (BIG) Festival is finally here and Anderson Araújo from Coaching for Geeks went along to take a closer look into all the great games they brought us this year. BIG Festival has taken place every year since 2012, and in Brazil is considered the most important festival of Independent games in …
Here at Coaching for Geeks, our tagline is “Turning geeks into superheroes.” Of all the geeky pastimes out there, probably the most geeky is the hobby of tabletop roleplaying games. From the publishing of the first and most venerable RPG rule set, Dungeons & Dragons, in the seventies to the recent explosion of live-streamed and podcasted sessions of games …
We’re Werewolves, not Swearwolves. The hairiest of the classic monsters (no, Cousin It doesn’t count) and the most likely to be adapted into a live theatrical version of a social deduction game. Forget the mafia, Werewolf was always where it was at for me – Robin Bates of Coaching for Geeks! And that’s what lured me in to see …
So this year I got to go the UK Games Expo for the first time ever! This article is a brief coverage of the event, what kind of things you can expect to see there and how I found the experience of some of the individual aspects of it as well as overall. The expo is huge and I would …
-Attendees at E3 this year have the opportunity to showcase their skills in front of FNATIC’s Fortnite captain Ettnix- -Move comes as Epic Games announces $100 million investment into Fortnite competitions- FNATIC, one of the world’s leading global esports brands, today revealed that attendees at this year’s E3 in Los Angeles (June 12-14) will have the opportunity to catch the …
