REPORT: An unidentified craft has parked over Main Street. Citizens are arming themselves with household gadgets and questionable courage. Authorities urge calm, right after they finish duct-taping lasers to the town statue. In Champion of Earth, you’re one headline away from glory. Reveal alien threats, gamble on when to strike, sabotage rivals who are stockpiling…
Hi everyone. I reached a point in game creation some years ago now where I still felt that tabletop roleplaying games are fantastic – I love them, I play them a lot – but they are a large time investment! Sometimes you just want something that’s going to take you somewhere between five minutes and…
Hi everyone! I’m going to keep it short this week. Last week, I was not able to join you because I have just moved house from my home of 5 years and that was pretty exhausting! Even so, creation halts for nothing, so I have delivered Violete #2’s Digital Rewards this week, along with preparing…
Good afternoon! With Christmas around the corner, we thought we’d offer you a great party game that’s bound to raise the energy in your house – one perfect for a Pre-Christmas Dinner warm-up! Champion of Earth is a game where 1-6 players fight off an alien invasion… But the aliens are not alone! When they…
Hi everyone! As it is the last Thursday of this year, I thought I’d take a moment to talk about the first few things you can expect to see from us in 2019. There’s some amazing stuff in here, so if you want to know what we have planned, just read on… Era: The Consortium…
Hi everyone! This week, I’m pleased to be able to talk about some fantastic things we’re doing over the next two weekends. First, there’s GamesFest, which is in Victoria Hall in Tring! We’ll be there once again and raring to go. But there’s more! We’re also running the “Championship of Earth” competition, the first time…
Hi everyone! I apologise for the lack of news post last week, but things have been crazy over here at Shades of Vengeance HQ! We did RTX in London a week ago, and then the 4-day EGX (formerly EuroGamer) in Birmingham. If you’re a new fan from meeting us there, welcome! That’s kept us very…
Hi everyone! With Era: The Chosen’s Kickstarter in full swing (and you should check it out if you haven’t yet, some great rewards to be had in our latest game!), Era: The Consortium’s Wave 2 expansions just waiting for the Hardback Expansions Volume 2 printing to finish delivery, Battlecruiser Alamo edits almost complete and Era:…
Hi everyone! The print and play version of Champion of Earth is now available from our store! https://www.shadesofvengeance.com/product/champion-of-earth-core-deck-digital-print-and-play/ If you’ve always wanted to try defending the Earth from an Alien Invasion, there’s no better way than with Champion of Earth… and now you can do it without even waiting for the shipping! If you want…
Hi everyone! I wanted to take a moment today to speak with you about conventions in the UK. As many of you already know, we do quite a few conventions here, as it’s where I live and I hate travelling! We have just finished an amazing weekend up in Manchester, exhibiting at MCM July. If…
We had an amazing time at MCM Comicon over the weekend. It was great to see so many new fans as well as those who are already familiar with what we do. Thank you to everyone who stopped by and played a session with us, picked up a game, or just came over to chat….
I’m taking the day off from Consortium announcements today to talk about one of our biggest events of the year; the MCM Comicon convention in London. Ed and the event team spend countless hours going over every detail to make sure your experience with us is top notch. When you visit our booth we’re ready…
Hi everyone, Ed here to round out the year! For me, this is the time of year I get pensive and by the time New Year rolls around, I’m more thinking about what I’m going to do next year. So I thought I’d spend a few minutes with you to talk about what we’ve accomplished…
The year is officially coming to an end and that means we only have one more convention appearance for 2017. It’s been an amazing year and we’re thrilled to have met so many great fans at each of the events we’ve attended. If you haven’t been able to make one of these conventions I highly…
Tomorrow is the big day! Right now, Ed has everything prepped and ready for the crush of players and fans who will descend upon the Shades of Vengeance team at Stand #72. Are you going to join us? Ed and the rest of the Comicon team will be at MCM, ready to answer your burning…
Thank you to everyone who supported the Champion of Earth expansion Kickstarter. All of the Robots and Cyborgs rewards have now been sent off and are being received by our fabulous backers. These good folks are now entirely set to defend the Earth and we wish them the best of luck! Those of you who…
Thanks to everyone for helping the Champion of Earth; Robots and Cyborgs Expansion Kickstarter event reach over 100% funding! There’s still time to help push this project into a Stretch Goal so stop on by and encourage anyone you think would enjoy this fun fast-paced card game to come check us out as well. […
Hi everyone! I’m pleased to announce that our Champion of Earth Kickstarter for the Robots and Cyborgs expansions deck is now Funded and moving onto Stretch Goals! I hope you’ll consider joining us there: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/champion-of-earth-robots If you want to know more about the gameplay, please check out the Livecast I did yesterday, which featured me defending…
Hi everyone! I just finished a Champion of Earth Livestream where I talked through all of the cards in the Robots and Cyborgs deck! If you want to know more about the game, please feel free to watch the replay: https://live.kickstarter.com/shades-of-vengeance/live/champion-of-earth-robots-expansion-deck I talk about the contents of the Robots and Cyborgs deck, a little about…
The wait is over and now is the perfect time to head over and check out the very first expansion for our Champion of Earth card game! [ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/champion-of-earth-robots ] Let me start by telling you what we’ve added to this already fun game. Through this Kickstarter expansion we’re offering a whole new set of…
Hi everyone! I’ve just launched a brand new Kickstarter for the first Champion of Earth expansion, Robots and Cyborgs: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/champion-of-earth-robots This expansion brings a new type of enemy (Robots) and a brand new array of weapons to fight them with. It also provides a 7th hero for the game, giving you not only even more choice, but…
Ed has been at it again, planning and working on several major games all at the same time! I’m here today with a quick round-up of what we’re doing and what you can expect to see in the coming days, weeks, and months. I mentioned last week that our next big game, Era: The Empowered,…
After a long convention period, things are slowly returning to normal back at Shades of Vengeance HQ. Our Spring convention season is always busy but this time around Ed and the team were able to introduce hundreds of new people to our games! It was an amazing turnout and we’d like to say thank you…
Hi everyone! Shades of Vengeance are returning to UK Games Expo: you can find us on your left as you go down Asmodee Street (the cross street is currently unnamed, but comes after FFG Avenue!). We create games because we love doing it, and you’ll quickly see that the last year has been a busy…
Hi everyone! We’ve been coming to MCM London for 3 years, now, and we always try to run a panel about creativity, as well as talking with anyone who wants to get into writing, comics or games. We believe that working to help other people achieve their creative dreams is one of the greatest responsibilities…
The time has finally come to warm up those dice rolling fingers, put on that Eulutian Cosplay suit, and join us at MCM Comicon and UKGE in London! The team only steps out to a few conventions each year and these are two of the biggest. You have two opportunities to come see the team:…
There is so much happening right now at Shades of Vengeance that I have trouble keeping track of it all. Thankfully, Ed always keeps me up to speed on everything going on. This week he has loads of news for us and I’m going to start with the upcoming Era: Survival expansion Kickstarter! By this…
There are so many fabulous things coming your way in just a short amount of time that I’m going to get right into it today. If you’re a new fan you might not realize that for the last couple years Ed and some of the team have been appearing at the MCM and UKGE conventions….
We’ve been throwing a lot at you lately so today Ed’s given me a quick briefing to share with you on where we’re at with several of our projects. This year has been moving right along and we’re seeing a ton of great games in several levels of production. It can be hard to keep…
Hi everyone! I’d like to, once again, thank everyone who backed our Champion of Earth Kickstarter, making it a success. It’s been an amazing experience, creating our first card game, as well as great fun meeting all kinds of new playtesters that we wouldn’t usually interact with in our RPG circles. We’ll be delivering it…
