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GATO the News Robot collects all the updates on our Twitter Feed and collects them into a weekly post. He also has metal joints.
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-30
- Spiel Des Jahres nominees announced. A great bunch in the nominees! (Not so excited about the recommended titles)
- The Old School determiner is awesome.
- The very last “Lying in the Gutters” column by Rich Johnston but he says to check here.
- Fear and Loathing: The Board Game
- Wil Wheaton: “in which i find something unexpected during a Journey Through The Silver Caves”
- Kalashtar info: they’re in the Eberron Player’s Guide, and they have “Telepathy 5″ as a language
- Tetris: Constructions Since 1985
- An interesting amalgam of RPG hobby/industry twitterfeeds
- DDI Playtest: Hybrid Characters (updated, and now with PHB2 classes)
- I’m pretty sure the movie “Gamer” will be nothing like “The Gamers” or even “Gamers”
- Open Design Podcast launches, featuring Skip Williams, Monte Cook, Wolfgang Baur, Jeff Grub, and more
- Brett Gilbert applies John Maeda’s “The Laws of Simplicty” to game design (Thanks, Boardgamenews)
- Website Category still lacking in ENnie entries. Get on it, RPG Bloggers! (Submission window closes June 1)
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-23
- Chuck renewed for third season (but with cutbacks)
- Kirk’s dad is Thor
- D&D 3.5 Monster Advancer
- A home for skill challenges on the web: The Skillforge
- Sarah Connor Chronicles Terminated
- PHB3 cover released
- President Obama Vetoes Mutant Registration Act [The Onion]
- Who ya gonna call?
- The Troubled Terminator Timeline
- More PHB3 content will be rolling out in DDI, but the price is going up
- D&D 4e Style Guide
- New DnD 4e video out: Demogorgon and the Gnome
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-16
- Monk playtest released, Psionic Striker that uses Dex as primary
- Mearls and Schubert explain the reason for psionic in the Design and Development (sub required)
- for those who want to whack kobolds with acquisitions, incorporated …
- Steampunk Beholder
- Blizzard’s new game to be new IP. Obviously, it must be World of CowboyCraft
- Does anyone know anything about Planechase? Sounds neat.
- I can’t really explain this
- Dollhouse renewed for 2nd season . A non-vampire Whedon show getting more episodes? Crazy. #
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-09
- Green Ronin to publish RPG based on Bioware’s Dragon Age: Origins
- Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film as ‘Fun, Watchable’ (Onion video)
- Best worst Star Trek parodies
- All of BoingBoing Gadget’s posts on Star Trek are worthwhile
- Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister
- Changes to D&DI updates, and next update will include Hybrid classes and the Monk
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-02
- Cool article about Werewolf, but shouldn’t they be playing iPhone werewolf?
- Winners of the 2009 Mensa Mind Games
- Free, D&D, 4e
- DDI May Editorial Calendar
- Games Are Art, Eurogames is an Art Period
- Best. Resignation. Letter. Ever.
- I don’t know where this came from, but it’s clearly the most powerful Guitar Hero/Rock Band guitar ever
- Interesting thoughts from Robin Laws on skill challenges
- Skill Challenge collection updated and added navigation
- Ten jobs not right for Wolverine
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-04-25
- MM2 Preview: Frost Giant and Stone Giant stats
- DDI Update: Ecology of the Deva
- Penny Arcade For the Vin!
- Scott Rouse talks about the direction the D&D brand is heading in the next two years
- Fallout: New Vegas being made by Obsidian Entertainment (not a sequel to 3)
- Left 4 Dead Survival Pack out
- The big news is not that there will be a LEGO Rock Band. The big news is that it includes “The Final Countdown”
- Guide to Gaming DVDs revised
- “Starting a new player out with Tomb of Horrors is like introducing someone to Rock Band with Green Grass and High Tides.”
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-04-18
- “Five & Dime” Boardgame list for 2008
- Monsterpocalypse + Voltron… the game is now officially worth checking out
- HeroClix still in limbo
- Enter Geek’s Dream Girl’s contest today to win a $25 Outback Steakhouse gift card by describing geek icons eating steak
- MM2 Excerpt: Adamantine Dragon
- D&D Insider Survey Results
- Z-Man Edition of Tales of the Arabian Nights rules posted
- Universe of Babylon 5 arrives for Traveller
- DDI Update: ORCS!, Design & Development: Familiars
- A Raptor from BSG could be yours
- Awesome Papercraft Superheroes
- D&D Creature Competition
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-04-11
- Dual classing is back (DDI sub required). More like Gestalt characters than anything else
- You must read Order of the Stick’s tribute to Dave Arneson
- ENWorld’s interview with WotC President Greg Leeds
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-04-04
- Battlestar Galactica icons for Mac OS X (thanks, NukeHavoc)
- April Editorial Calendar has all kinds of interesting things, including PHB3 tidbits
- WotC’s first April Fool’s joke: “The Missing Delve” includes Flumph stats and “Rawr, I’m a monster” attack
- Second one: “Witchalok” class from Penny Arcade. Witchalok class totally puts my Ninja class to shame. Similar concept, way funnier in execution.
- Drizzt Do’Urden Magic card
- Fiction World Rocked as Woman Claims No Sexual Attraction to Neil Gaiman
- Fox Cancels Joss Whedon
- Hard-Boiled Orc and Pie!
- Diablo 3 character class: The Archivist (with radial dialogue tree!)
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl X Extreme
- Starcraft 2 Terra-Tron is a go
- World of Warcraft’s new Dance Battle System
- Worst Home Made Star Wars Costumes
- Rorscach reviews the Watchmen
- Obama Depressed, Distant Since “Battlestar Galactica” Series Finale
- Philadelphia Science Fiction Society to Shed Geeky Image with New Name (SFPhilYScon is next?)
- Arcane Power feat excerpts
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-03-28
- Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Games Blogs is out now. Go buy it!
- d6 Damage… err, speakers
- WTF D&D, 1st Edition Monster Manual
- Newest Character Builder update available, including PHB2 data, and fixes retraining/power swap issues.
- Heaven is Funky Moose coming to Rock Band 2
- PHB2 errata already at Wizards. (Thanks, newbiedm)
- D&D, Mario, Street Fighter, and more new iGoogle themes
- XRP picks up the rights to produce 4e Freeport Companion. (Good move for Green Ronin)
- Minor updates to Skill Challenges, Race, and Class features.
