Tales of the Arabian Nights (hereafter refered to just as Tales) was originally published in 1985 here in the US. It was reprinted recently in Germany as Geschichten aus 1001 Nacht. Tales is one of the most famous of the “paragraph games”. A paragraph game, essentially, is multi-player choose your own adventure. The similarities are […]
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, […]
YouTube of the Week: There Can Be No Redshirts Edition
Steam Trek: What if Star Trek had been made during the Silent Movie era? (Made from scratch, unlike the silent movie Star Wars.)
Inq. of the Week: Transformers?
When asked which Star Wars games you liked most, Knights of the Old Republic came out on top with 58% of the votes which is not entirely surprising but I was still a bit shocked as I had assumed one of the more classic games/series would pull ahead. The amazingly classic Tie-Fighter/X-Wing series came in second […]
Free RPG Day is Saturday
Just a reminder that Free RPG Day is today, June 23rd. Find your local game store, pickup some free adventures, and play on.
YouTube of the Week: Steel in the Heart Edition
A “trailer” for a Punch-Out movie. Part of the Nintendo Short Cuts fan video contest. This one didn’t make the cut, but you can catch out the 10 finalists on the short cuts website. While there, be sure to check out my top two picks, Good vs. WiiVil and The Missing Link.
Inq. of the Week: May the Dice be with you
Last week, we asked what kind of gamer you classified yourself as. The top pick was Explorer/Achiever with 9 votes… possibly because it was the most positive of all the options. I know that most of you like to talk smack and just won’t admit it. Second place was my pick, the Dysfunctional Game Designer, […]
Rug-Sweeping and the Party Game Problem
Thanks again to Bartoneus for filling in for me last week. (Guess this means I need to make a comic for a Random Encounter– there’s a scary thought.) As a short rebuttal to the question he posed, I generally don’t talk about fun specifically because it’s hard to design to be fun, and it’s a […]
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 […]
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