A good friend once said to me, on the occasion of the finale of a D&D game where nearly all the players were moving away, “I’ll see you all once a year for the rest of my life.” He was referring to Origins. Origins is the yearly tabletop gaming convention (dare I say extravaganza) located […]
Inquisition of the Week: Ridiculous Critiques
As I write this, the results of last week’s poll are still in the air. Calling it now means that most of you said that you will see “more than meets the eye” on opening night, just narrowly edging out those who will wait for the following weekend. I’m very surprised to see so few […]
Flog the Horse Once More
So apparently the back of my head made it onto Kotaku, from the auditorium at the Fallout 3 Press Event: Is this a benevolence beyond all recognition, or is it an evil that will never wash off?
Fallout 3: An Outsider's Inside View
Back in early June I was fortunate enough to attend the Fallout 3 Press Event at Bethesda Soft, where we got to see about an hour’s worth of game play and ask a whole lot of questions with Todd Howard, Emil Pagliarulo, and Pete Hines. Right off I would like to extend a huge thank […]
Rated NO for "No One Can Play"
While many of the news outlets are running stories today about the Supreme Court decisions involving free speech, many of us are looking at related issues that run close to home. Manhunt 2 has been rated as AO by the ESRB, and both Sony and Nintendo responded that they weren’t going to have any AO […]
Lovecraft: Terrifying Beginnings
I’ve been familiarized with the entire Lovecraftian mythos over the last eight years, but oddly enough I’d never gotten to picking up any of his actual writing. Just last night I started into a collection of his stories and I am already greatly impressed. I was shocked to find out more about the man himself, […]
A Comic Issue
Not too long ago The O lent me all of the Sin City graphic novels, as well as Wanted; I’ve read through the latter and half of the others so far and all they are doing is making me miss reading comic books every week. I stopped last November because it got to the point where […]
GLEEMAX
Wizards of the Coast announced that they are working on a new online portal called Gleemax, both from an inside joke among the staff and (I assume) something that sounds vaguely like Google. Icv2 has the big interview with VP of Digital Games Randy Buehler, which explains what Gleemax will one day be. The site…will […]
Why You Should Be Excited for Starcraft 2
It’s not surprising at all that many people feel underwhelmed at Blizzard’s recent announcement of Starcraft II. Afterall, it was pretty well certain that they’d be announcing it – it was taking place at a show in Korea, where they were holding Starcraft tournaments – there were several “leaks” from within the company – and […]
God, Are You Listening?
If you are, then on May 19th Blizzard will announce Starcraft II. Right now they are doing their typical hype-building site countdown; this time (as you’ll see if you visit their site) they have been counting all week through their titles from Warcraft & Warcraft II to presently Diablo II. The original Starcraft was yesterday’s, with […]
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