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No, Really, The Last Call For Reader’s Choice Award Nominations
GrogHeads Newsdesk, 29 December 2016
Every year we collect your suggestions for the very best in gaming from the year, and after we sift and sort, let you choose the winners.
Every year we get someone complain about “why wasn’t (your favorite game here) on the list?!” And every year, it’s the same answer – none of y’all nominated it! So here’s your chance for a pre-emptive strike against that complaining.
Once we get all your suggestions in, and we actually get to the end of the year, we’ll open the voting for the month of January and see what you pick.
Chat about it below, or in our forums, or hit our FaceBook page >>
Wrapping up 2016, GrogHeads Style
We polled some friends in the business for their thoughts on 2016 ~
The GrogFriends, 21 December 2016
So we launched out an email to a whole bunch of friends out in GrogLand, and asked the following:
- What was the biggest ‘story’ in gaming this year?
- What was the most fun you had playing a game this year (even if it wasn’t a new game)?
Here are the responses we got at press time…
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Ken Burnside, Ad Astra Games
- For RPGs, seeing John Wick Presents get the rights back to 7th Sea and run a million dollar plus Kickstarter. For game publishing, seeing FFG “merge” with Asmodee, have their first “failure” in their Star Wars line with Star Wars Armada, and seeing Games Workshop pull the Warhammer RPG and assorted licenses from them.
- I had a lot of fun playing Star Trek: Ascendancy with two people who were even bigger Trek fans than I am.
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Tim van der Moer, CEO, The Lordz Games Studio s.a.r.l.
- The announcement of Red Dead Redemption 2. Mr. Marston will be back, best in game character ever. Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone spaghetti western is an open game world made by Rockstar…very much looking forward to it!
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Civilization VI.
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ed note: 2016 was pretty hard on our sense of mortality across everything, not just gaming. We even added an “RIP” icon for threads in our forums…
Steve Rawlings, LPS Games
Not sure if only upbeat material is welcome, but if you want to mention a “dark side” (or an “In Remembrance” section) that impacted many, it was the casualties among the game company people that really shook me this year. Bill Gibbs at Omega dropped dead, Ed Wimble from COA suffered a minor heart attack while in Tempe at the CSW Expo show this year, and my own right hand man, Lembit Tohver, had a major heart attack last month. I’m sure you can name others. Aging may be taking us down one by one faster than poor game sales.
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Last Call for Reader’s Choice Nominations
GrogHeads Newsdesk, 14 December 2016
Every year we collect your suggestions for the very best in gaming from the year, and after we sift and sort, let you choose the winners.
Every year we get someone complain about “why wasn’t (your favorite game here) on the list?!” And every year, it’s the same answer – none of y’all nominated it! So here’s your chance for a pre-emptive strike against that complaining.
Once we get all your suggestions in, and we actually get to the end of the year, we’ll open the voting for the month of January and see what you pick.
Chat about it below, or in our forums, or hit our FaceBook page >>
News! Battles Magazine finally hits shipping date!
Check out the latest from Battles! Magazine ~
GrogHeads Newsdesk, 06 July 2016
Enjoy!
Chat about it below, or in our forums, or hit our FaceBook page >>
News! Sad to Report the Passing of Author John Gresham
Check out the latest from The Admiralty Trilogy Group ~
GrogHeads Newsdesk, 05 July 2016
Renowned military affairs author and speaker John Gresham passed away over the weekend.
more after the jump…
