Over the last weekend, I was at Philcon. In the past, I have really enjoyed the game room there, but over the past few years, it’s gone down drastically in quality. This year I had the choice of playing Dork Tower, 12 player Apples to Apples, 8 player 10 color Zendo, or the Vampire CCG. […]
Archives for November 2006
Inq. of the Week: Holiday Gift?
I now have learned, after a long ordeal, that the holiday shopping season now begins the weekend before Thanksgiving. I had hoped to use a Best Buy coupon that was valid only last weekend to purchase my Wii, but that failed for a few reasons. And Toys R Us was the busiest I’ve ever seen […]
Today's Experiment… Failed
If I had realized that Philcon was going to suck so much, I probably wouldn’t have gone. And if I had realized when I first agreed to go this year that the Wii launch was on the same weekend, I probably wouldn’t have gone. But as it stood, I ended up in Philadelphia, in unfamiliar […]
Talking Boars! (EXTRALIFE)
This weekend we are featuring what I consider to be the most creative AND consistently funny webcomics around, EXTRALIFE by Scott Johnson. The one in particular shown above is and excellent take on how things really work in the game World of Warcraft, and what boars really talk about in their spare time (between random […]
PS3 Violence
Just saw this story over on CNN. Apparently (not surprisingly) there have been a string of violent crimes over attempts to nab a PS3. Link to story Pretty damned ridiculous if you ask me!
Finally, some IMPORTANT terminology!
I’ve been reading and digging (as in enjoying, not the web-verb) Jonathan Degann’s Journal of Boardgame Design. It’s a while between articles, but I find them consistently thorough and enjoyable. For someone else looking at boardgames from an academic stance, it’s a place to go. This week, though, as a break from the design stuff […]
Around the Survivors a Perimeter Create!
While preparing for last week’s comic, I went to an obvious source for cartoon-yoda images, which was of course the fantastic Clone Wars cartoons. Pictured to the right is a quick drawing I did from one of the images, just to get a feel for the style and see what I could learn from it. […]
YouTube of the Week: Long Time Ago, Middle Earth Edition
Another somewhat long one, 8:30. Shot like the series of “making of” interviews previewing… George Lucas directiong Lord of the Rings.
Inq. of the Week: Girl Gamers
Getting right to the question this week: Should Girl Gamers really be treated so differently? Via Game|Life I saw this Gamestop display that seemed to really get their tights in a knot, and I began to wonder, how bad of an idea is this really? Certainly placing it right at the door to the store […]
Review: Oryx and Crake
Title: Oryx and Crake Author: Margaret Atwood Year of Publication: 2003 Genre: Science Fiction/Fiction Length: The paperback version has 443 pages. Rating: 4/5 – Worth paying full price. Review: Oryx and Crake is one of two novels that I have read by Margaret Atwood that are about a utopian future turned to dystopia, the other […]
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