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Daddy Kratos Gets A Card Game, Mensa Reveals This Year’s Winners, And More Tabletop Gaming News
Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, the regular column all about the latest in tabletop and board gaming news—focusing on everything that’s happening in science fiction and fantasy gaming. Right now, we’ve got a cool announcement involving an Alien roleplaying game, some more tabletop adaptations from video games, and a cancelled expansion.
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Alien: Blackout Is A Great Concept But Falls Flat
Alien: Blackout sounds great on paper. Take the grimy world of the films and boil the terror experience into a tense management game during which you direct survivors, lock doors, and watch for the alien on your motion tracker. Mixing real-time strategy and survival is a smart concept, but Alien: Blackout is a bit too…
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20th Century Fox Trademarks ‘Alien: Blackout’
Briefly: The name “Alien: Blackout” has been trademarked by 20th Century Fox. Gematsu reports that the application for trademark with the European Union Intellectual Property Office specifically claims it will be used for game software. The application also mentions “on-line computer games.”
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This Fan Artist Turns Pop Culture Into Mythological Icons
When we say pop culture is iconic, we don’t usually mean it this literally.