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Origins – Breaking News with Academy Games
We’re bringing you a fresh scoop from #Origins2017 ~
Michelle Owczarski, 16 June 2017
Breaking News – Uwe Eickhart reveals Academy Games’ Agents of Mayhem Tie-In Board Game
During an interview with GeogHeads, Uwe Eickert explained that Academy had been working for three years with video game publisher Volition on a board game based on their Saints’ Row IP. The game is meant to expand on story and characters from the videogame.
The Agents of Mayhem videogame will be an open-world game in third-person perspective available on Playstation4, Xbox One and PC, and was announced at E3 to release in August 2017, but this is the first time Academy Games has spoken about it publicly. The board game, Agents of Mayhem – Pride of Babylon, from Academy Games is slated to launch at the same time.
Eickert said that working with the Saints’ Row IP was easier than historical games because there was less research to do. “Their writers were involved,” and were enthusiastic about the additional content the board game will include.
See www.academygames.com/aom for more information on the Academy Games Agents of Mayhem board game. Additional content from the Eickert interview to come.
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Origins 2017 Coverage – Your Opinions, Please!
What do you want to see from this year’s Origins? ~
The GrogHeads Team, 22 May 2017
As we ramp up for our coverage of Origins this summer, we’re doubling the number of journalists we’re bringing to the show, so we’ll have a dedicated photographer, plus a dedicated writer, in addition to the staff pitching in their thoughts.
But we’d like to know your thoughts on where you’d like them to focus on coverage.
also, we’ll be posting live/real-time updates to our Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/grogheads/
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News! Armageddon War hits Kickstarter
Check out the latest from Flying Pig Games ~
GrogHeads Newsdesk, 05 May 2017
Flying Pig Games have launched their most recent Kickstarter campaign
Armageddon War: Platoon Level Combat in the End War, is live on Kickstarter. The latest offering from serial successful-Kickstarter campaigner, Flying Pig Games, Armageddon War is set in a dark, not-too distant future.
Following disease, famine, and economic collapse among the world’s first-line powers, conventional war erupts in the Mid-East for what arable land remains. Old allies join the carnage, and the war grows, pitting age-old adversaries and their new friends against each other. Armageddon War depicts the chaos in the midst of this war.
Origins War College 2017 Schedule
What’s on tap for this summer’s lectures at Origins? ~
GrogHeads Staff, 29 April 2017
The Origins War College has been folded into the overall lecture/seminar program at the convention. But they’re still sort-of separated out into 2 distinct program tracks, each in their own rooms.
There’s plenty of interesting talks, and many of them staffed/hosted by the NSDM crew.
GrogHeads Central Command Origins Events 2017
What’s coming up at Origins this summer? ~
GrogHeads Staff, 8 April 2017
Per GAMA, event registration goes live on 3 May.
What’s on tap this year? Plenty!
- Tournaments! We’ve got afternoon/evening tournaments for Lock’n’Load Tactical, Quartermaster General, Spearpoint 1943, and Twilight Struggle
- Team / Group events! In addition to our Command Post Wargaming, we have a pair of Team COIN games back this year, plus big team games of Old School Tactical, Sergeants!, and Crucible of Force (Slaughter in the Snow).
- Kids! We’ve got a special wargaming program this year for the kids – yes, KIDS! We’ve got 4 games that we’ll be running all weekend, in shorter 1-hour sessions. And for any kid who plays all 4 games at least once each, we’ve got a special Junior General prize. These games are for kids age 7-14, and they must have an adult come to the table with them.
Which companies are here with us?
- Griggling Games! Quartermaster General, and some expansions
- Flying Pig Games! Mark’s got 5 (five! fünf! cinco! V!) different games over the course of the weekend with us
- Enterprise Games! With their support for our GMT events again this year, we’ve Fields of Despair, Wing Leader Supremacy, some COIN events, C&C Ancients for the kids, and the Twilight Struggle tournament
- Collins Epic Wargames! We’re running Spearpoint 1943 events (for the kids, too), but look for Polyversal, also
- Lost Battalion Games! The always-awesome Sergeants! games are back, and look for their award-winning tiles, too
- Proving Ground Games! Bringing the lead to the battle, with their minis wargaming, and a special movie-monster scenario for the kids
- Lock’n’Load Games! Nations at War, LNLT, and tanks for the kids
Over 65 events across 4 days, for all your wargaming goodness. Plus, show up Wednesday afternoon and see what the staff has on the table just for their own fun 🙂
When you’re looking for our events in the Origins master event grid, they all start with “GrogHeads Presents”. We did that to make it easier to find when sorting through a giant spreadsheet with over 6000 events, however we stripped it out of the names on our event grid here just to simplify the listings.
Don’t forget that everyone who plays in our events gets a discount with our vendor partners, and gets entered for some great Sunday-morning raffle prizes. There’s also at least one prize for one of the players at every one of our events.
Note that the kids’ events – as noted above – have a special prize for kids who check out all 4 of the different games, and do not have prizes for each individual event.
Click through for the sortable table of events
