Jim Franklin

Jim Franklin

Jim Franklin is a freelance writer, living in Derby UK with his wife and his player 3. When time allows he likes nothing more than losing himself in a multi-hour gaming session. He likes most games and will play anything but prefers MMO's, and sandbox RPG's.
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Hand of Fate to Launch in January 2015

Games that combine elements of table-top and card-based rpgs seem to be having somewhat of a revival of late, with Dicetiny working its way through the kickstarter process, and Hand of Fate from Defiant development following not too far behind…

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Dicetiny Kickstarter Begins

You may remember that about a month ago, I posted about an RPG hybrid game called Dicetiny: The Lord of the Dice by Fakedice; a mix of board, card, dice and video game RPG’s all squished together into a game…

Top 7 Things I like about Sims 4

Sims 4 was released last Friday (5th September) and as all Sims-addicts probably have done across the country, any other game hasn’t even had a look in, as I’ve been managing the lives of an artist and her family. I’m…

Dicetiny, RPG Game Hybrid on it’s way

There some things that work together, peanut butter and chocolate, strawberry and chili, beards and pink taffeta”¦. Oh, I er, mean”¦ maybe not. Well Fakedice, a seven man Korean gaming company is mixing stuff up in their own way, in…

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Skara – the Blade Remains Kickstarter

I’m not really one for player vs. player gaming, I much prefer collaborative play, working towards common goals, and loving your fellow-man and all that hippie stuff. Although I know that there are huge amounts of you out there that…

Movie Hangman Game Review

Slinky Productions have taken the classic game of Hangman, locked it in a room with a film collection, a bottle of wine, and some oysters and just left it to do what comes naturally. The spawn of this bizarrely romantic…

A Look Back at Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage

In case you haven’t heard, the second installment in the Amazing Spider-Man film series is just about ready to hit theatres. And in being slammed with the barrage of commercials and advertisements promoting said film these past few weeks, it’s…

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MomoCon 2014 Hits Atlanta

If you find yourself kicking around downtown Atlanta between the 23rd and 25th of May , 2014 you might want to pop into the Hilton Atlanta and the Marriott Marquis hotels, for MomoCon 2014. Riot games, Sega and Hi-Rez studios…

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PAX South to hit Texas

If you’re somewhere around Texas at the start of 2015 you might want to drop into PAX South, the latest festival brainchild of Reedpop and Penny Arcade. Penny Arcade is one of the largest communities of gamers you can find…