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The Rendering Engine, the first full colour art book release by Contested Ground Studios' artist Paul Bourne is now available to buy from our online shop. This body of work consists of new versions of previous published illustrations plus a whole host of 'never before seen' material from the artist's personal portfolio. For more information visit the Rendering Engine page where you can get all the book stats, download a free 7 page preview and view a contact sheet of the entire book.

For more information click here

To download the free preview click here

To buy a copy click here

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Paul

'The Rendering Engine - The Art of Paul Bourne' will be available to buy from Monday 30th November. Until then, there is a free 7 page PDF preview available to download, which includes the book's contents page so you can see exactly what you are getting.

The full colour 7x9 inch 46 page book contains art from Cold City, Hot War and 3:16 amongst others, plus a whole host of new original art. The book is priced at £13 and will be available on the web exclusively from the Contested Ground shop. Saying that though, there will be a few pre-release copies available at Dragonmeet on Saturday 28th Nov at the Collective Endeavour booth, so if you are at Dragonmeet this year, swing by and take a look for yourself.

Click here to download the preview of The Rendering Engine.


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Paul

The hardback limited edition of Hot War is now available to buy exclusively from our shop for the price of £22. This limited edition pack includes the following: One clothbound hardback copy of Hot War with black stamping on the front and spine, plus a full colour soft-laminated slip case. The book also comes with two regular and two oversized colour art cards.

Click here to see a preview of the pack

Click here to download a free 15 page preview of Hot War

Click here to buy a copy from the CGS shop

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Paul

( Images of the pack behind this cut )

Within the next couple of months Contested Ground Studios will be releasing a limited edition hardback version of Hot War, which will be cloth bound and come in a pack with some extra goodies. The book will be a strictly limited edition release, so will be on a first come first served basis.

Also, around the same time, we will be releasing 'The Rendering Engine', a full colour Paul Bourne art book. The book will consist of a whole host of new original art plus some full colour versions of art from Hot War, Cold City, a|state and 3:16 amongst others.

More information on both releases will follow shortly, plus photos of the hardback Hot War pack and a free PDF preview of the art book will be available on the CGS website.

Cheers

Paul

We've been keeping this under our hats for a few months now but for the last while we have been working with Italian publishers Coyote Press to produce an Italian translation of Cold City 1.1. All the original graphic design and artwork is retained, with a few additional art pieces thrown in, so it is definitely worth a look. The book is an A4, 160 page softback priced at 26 Euros and is available direct from Coyote Press.

 

To visit the Coyote Press website go here or to have a look at their blog go here.

Also, there are only a few days left to vote for the ENnie awards so, if you are going to vote now is the time. Not that I am biased but I think that 'Hot War' and Box Ninja's '3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars' are definitely worth voting for! The voting closes at midnight on August 1st so hurry hurry!

To cast your ENnie Awards vote go here.

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Paul

The Contested Ground Studios sale has now been extended to all our books & PDFs available from Indie Press Revolution, and all CGS PDFs at Drivethru RPG. The average discount is 20% but some books, bundles and PDFs have even greater discounts so go and check them out.

The sale ends on 17th August so there is no time to lose!

Go here to visit Indie Press Revolution

Go here to visit Drivethru RPG

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Paul

To celebrate Hot War's double ENnie 2009 nomination we have decided to offer a 20% discount on all books and book bundles until 17th of August, which is the day after the end of GenCon Indy.

So if you want to pick up a bargain now is the time. To visit the Contested Ground Studios shop page go here.

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Paul

Earlier on today the ENnie award nominations were announced. To our great delight, Hot War has been nominated for awards in the 'Best Writing' and 'Best Setting' categories. The public vote for the winners in all categories starts of 24th July and is open for about a week.

We would like to thank the judges who thought fit to put Hot War up for nomination, it is very much appreciated.

If you'd like to have a look at all this years nominations and see who is up for what, go here.


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As a little addition to Hot War  and Cold City we have released limited edition Special Situations Group and Reserve Police Agency insignia badges. Each shaped badge in made from bronze coloured plated nickel and hard enamel and are approximately 1 inch in diameter. Each badge comes in at £3 but if you want both badges you can buy them together for £5. Anyway, if you want to pick up a badge or two go to the shop page.

The print version of Hot War is finally available from our shop, coming in at £15. For those of you who want to find out more about Hot War before buying, you can have a look at the Hot War pages of the website or go directly to the links below.

To download a free 15 page preview of Hot War go here.

To go to the Hot War pages go here.

To buy a print copy of Hot war go here.

As well as this, we have decided to release Hot War and Cold City v1.1 together as a bundle. The Cold War bundle is priced at £25. That means you get both books at a saving of £5.

To buy the Cold War bundle go here.

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Paul

Just took delivery of our copies of Hot War. Luckily I was in this time, as on Friday I came home to find 50 copies of Cold City v1.1 on the doorstep courtesy of UPS

Total weight of books: 68lbs, total cost of shipping from fidlar: probably have to sell the car!

Anyway, Cold City is out now, but we are going to wait until next Monday to release Hot War so that the people who pre-ordered get their copies first.

Paul

I've just added some Hot War desktop wallpaper to the CGS site. There are 5 suitably grim wallpapers to choose from in 2 different screen sizes. I can't wait until Hot War actually comes out so that I can see daylight again!!

Anyway, here's a quick look.












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Paul

Well, Hot War is at the printers and we are getting ready for a GenCon (or there abouts) release. We have put a whole load of Hot War info on the CGS site including a free 15 page preview.

The book is also available to pre-order at IndiePress Revolution

Cheers

Paul

We were waiting on the release of Avenues & Alleyways before we did this, but finally, a|state is available in PDF format. It is priced at $15 and comes in at 252 pages.


The PDF is currently only available at RPGNow but will be available at other outlets soon.

Well, after a bit of a wait and much anticipation, Avenues & Alleyways is now available. This bumper a|state supplement comes in at 112 pages and features 30 brand new City areas to explore and use in your a|state games, as well as a host of essays on a everything from health and disease in The City  to law and weather. The book is available in print and PDF formats and is priced at £16/$26 (print)and $12 (PDF). 

We've also uploaded a new free PDF A&A preview so you can have a look at what you're getting before you buy.

For more information on Avenues &Alleyways go here

To download the free 11 page preview go here

To buy a print copy from our shop page go here

To buy a print or PDF copy from Indie Press Revolution (US) go here

 

Well Avenues & Alleyways is finally at the printers. It seems to have taken forever, but its finally done and we are really happy with the end result. All going well it will be out in about a month or so. Now, on to the next thing...

There's been a bit of a delay (no ones fault really) but we have finally got our copies of Cold City: The Companion and Mob Justice through from the printers. Both are now available to buy from our shop.

Mob Justice is priced at £18 and The Companion is priced at £7.

Anyway, here is another sneaky preview of a bit of art from The Companion.

Paul

Heres another picture from the Cold City Companion. It's currently at the printers, so we should get the proofs back shortly - something I am looking forward to and dreading in equal measure.

Mob Justice is finally off to print, so now we are moving on to the Cold City Companion. Malc has basically got the whole thing written so I am way behind in the art. Anyway, here is the first piece.

Paul

It seems all I've been doing these last 2 weeks is working on websites. I've finally got a site setup for my girlfriend Leanne to selll her dichroic jewellery. (www.leannefultonglass.co.uk if you're interested)  Also, Malc and I have just did a big update th the Cold City section of the Contested Ground site. There whole new sections on resources and media etc which we will expand even further in the near future.

On a slightly crapper note I've got the cold again. It seems that as soon as one person in my team gets the cold then its only a matter of time before everyone gets it. That's what happens when they switch off the air conditioning to save money !