Bloodstone Brings High Fantasy and Brutal Combat to Tabletop
Skybound Entertainment has launched the Kickstarter for
Bloodstone, created by James Hudson of Druid City Games, is a new combat arena style game set in a high fantasy world. The game is set in an arena watched over by the power-hungry sorceress Vanira, who used the fabled Bloodstone to conquer the empire of Stormwrath and has placed its champions in a brutal cycle of violence and death inside of the arena. Players will choose one of eight characters, each with their own playstyles and backstory and reasons for trying to conquer the arena and kill Vanira herself.
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There aren’t many gaming mice that incorporate a joystick into the design. The Razer Naga Trinity and Corsair Scimitar include multiple buttons on the left side, but those are designed for games like
World of Warcraft or
League of Legends. Binding abilities to those buttons can be more convenient for some, but cumbersome for people like me. Enter Asus’ ROG Chakram, a gaming mouse that ditches the side buttons for a joystick, and boy do I like it a whole lot more.
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The Chakram does things a little differently than one of its direct competitors, Lexip’s Pu94. That one has not just one, but two joysticks. I spent some time with the Pu94 a while ago, and while its design was great for playing flying simulators and quickly rotating objects and viewpoints in