If Graham allowed us to swear above the cut, I would one hundred percent have started this post with a string of expletives. Because Warhammer-themed sports game Blood Bowl 2 is utterly maddening. I’m playing in a league at the moment, the bottom of which I am hugging like a flipping> anchor, and while the people I’m playing with are great, I dread every fixture as two hours I know I will never get back. The losing, I couldn’t care less about. I am not really very competitive about games anyway, and as a newcomer to this one, it’s only natural that I’d get repeatedly mauled by a league full of more experienced players. Oh no. The problem, crucially, is the anatomy of a Blood Bowl 2 loss.

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Currently with no title of its own (beyond the series branding), publisher Bigben Interactive announced today that among their “2019 and beyond” lineup is a Vampire: The Masquerade “narrative RPG” developed by Big Bad Wolf, the folks behind the episodic historical murder-mystery The Council. Also coming is Blood Bowl 3, once again developed by Cyanide, with plans to launch a new digital iteration alongside the 2020 tabletop edition, which is updating the game’s rules. Typical – you wait fifteen years for a Vampire game, and they go and announce two practically side by side.

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French publishers Bigben Interactive are buying French developers Cyanide Studio, the mob behind games including Styx sneak ’em ups, the Blood Bowl adaptation, and the Game Of Thrones RPG. Cyanide’s games tend not to quite come together while being interesting or admirable in their ambition, mid-budget games of a sort we don’t see much any more – I’m always interested to see what they’re up to. Bigben are glad to be getting a development studio of their own, while Cyanide say this will help them expand and make better games. (more…)

Another eight teams join the deadly sport of Blood Bowl 2 [official site] today with the launch of its first expansion. Plenty of teams have come to the sporty wargame as DLC since launch but the expansion whacks in a load at once — including a new circus team who have trained bears to play murderball — along with several new modes. It’ll also offer the ability to play as a team with players from across all factions, though I don’t know why you’d make anything other than an all-bear team. (more…)

Blood Bowl 2 [official site] – the sequel to the initial digital foray for the American football/Warhammer mashup – is bringing new races, a new stadium and new game modes with the release of its Legendary Edition later in 2017. For me as a non-Warhammerer this involves the press release invocation of terms like “the Kislev Circus and their ferocious Tame Bears” and I sit there scratching my head and trying to work out whether the Hebrew calendar has a bear festival. … [visit site to read more]

Whether you’re a fan of American Football or not, the idea of Warhammer’s various factions solving their problems on the gridiron is hilarious. Games Workshop’s Blood Bowl 2 [official site] lets you do just that, and they’ve added another team for the side of Chaos, the Nurgle team, in new DLC. … [visit site to read more]

It’s been a while! Over November and December, the RPS community have indulged in tonnes of different games. Read on to find out what we’ve been up to in Clicker Heroes [official site], Guild Wars 2 [official site], PlanetSide 2 [official site], Terraria [official site] and more.

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October is when the nights draw in and evenings are best spent gathered around a fire, playing board games. Or hunched in front of a monitor, playing on Roll20.

On the other hand, what better way to warm up than with big gatherings of the community – either online or off? Read on to find out what we’ve been up to in Blood Bowl 2 [official site], pen and paper games, PlanetSide 2 [official site], real life and more.

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I love Blood Bowl. By that, I don’t necessarily mean Cyanide’s digital adaptations of Blood Bowl I mean Games Workshop’s violent fantasy-sport and the finely poised ruleset that drives it. But we’re here to talk about the latest digital adaptation so, with consideration for the boardgame and its rules, here’s wot I think of Blood Bowl 2 [official site].>

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Blood Bowl 2 [official site] is due to launch tomorrow, barring unexpected problems, and I believe our Adam will be telling us Wot He Thinks about Cyanide Studios’ follow-up to their adaptation of Games Workshop’s fighty sports tabletop game. Until then, well, you can read his impressions of a pre-release version. You can also watch videos and whatnot, as the launch trailer has arrived a little early and it’s got a few new gameplay-ish vids too. Sports, go!

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