Do you get enough sleep? I know I don’t. Undoubtedly, this means that an innumerable amount of things don’t work properly in and around the general area of me. My metabolism is slower than a rusty Dodge Dart, and I’m forever forgetting things. Honestly, I live in constant fear of leaving the infant carrier on the roof of the car or somehow [...]

Last week, the “Halo 4: Foward Unto Dawn” trailer came out, and Halo fans popped a collective bon…pumped their fists in the air. At last! This is another one of those videos that gives me the absolute shivers. When the Chief slow turned toward the camera, I think I wet myself a little bit. It looks amazing, and I can’t [...]

Dear Sid Meier’s Civilization, Remember back in Jr. High, when we had that brief fling? You were living at my friend’s house, but that didn’t stop our sordid affair from starting. You were beautiful, and I couldn’t take my eyes off of you. Back then, you were known as Civilization II, and the fun we had was near infinite. You [...]

When Nintendo and Sony released plans for their new portables, the 3DS and the Playstation Vita, many reporters claimed that these systems were dead before they released..  They claimed that, with the advent of smart phones and tablets, and the fact that these came with app stores in which you could buy small, cheap games, that the market for a dedicated [...]

Video game publishers never fail to amaze me with their business decisions. For example, Activision announced their pricing for bringing Angry Birds Trilogy to consoles and the Nintendo 3DS…   $40 on consoles and $30 on the 3DS. That’s a 1000% plus markup, depending on the platform you are buying it on. Why would they do this? Because people will probably [...]

I was looking at a list of fall video game new releases this morning, and I noticed something conspicuously absent from the list: Single-player RPGs. Yeah, Guild Wars 2 is coming out, but MMOs rarely come as close to sucking me in like a good single-player RPG. There are also some great games that aren’t RPGs coming out; I’m really [...]

I have a confession to make.  I am addicted to Diablo 3, I even made a fictional backstory for one of my characters, Fredjoe the Barbarian.  But one thing gets me with the game it that it is just very easy.  Mind you, I don’t go running around endlessly farming gear, nor do I read up much on it.  Regardless, [...]

Dungeon Masters have it rough. While they get to play judge, jury, and executioner to your player characters, they also have to create a bunch of Non-player characters (sometimes on the fly) and villains, often complete with backstories, and never see them advance in any kind of meaningful way. Being a DM means making everyone else have a good time. [...]

Well guys it is officially the summer, and that means one thing to every PC and Mac gamer: Steam Summer Sale! Every summer Steam, the digital distribution platform developed by Valve, has an impossibly cheap sale with tons of games. Triple A titles can go for less than ten dollars and slashing the price of games by far more than [...]

Bit of a confession here: I love the Mass Effect series. I thought the entire narrative was quite excellent, and had an extremely epic feel. Personally, I liked Fem Shep, playing a Infiltrator from the beginning. I have played through Mass Effect 1 and 2 multiple times, loving every minute of them. I grew to be fond of the characters, trying [...]

Something I’ve noticed a lot lately in both tabletop and video game materials is how messed up they often are. Video games are notorious for this. Didn’t get something correct? We can just patch it later. It’s a trend that I’m torn about. On one hand, game breaking bugs can be fixed (Remember the glitches in NES and SNES games [...]

Living in Rhode Island, I have come to realize that this is the state the gaming industry, hell most of America, forgets about completely. Oh sure, there are developers in Massachusetts, like Harmonix, but for the longest time this state simply did not exist to the development community. That was, until 38 Studios. And, thanks to 38 Studios, I fear [...]

I love playing games with my friends and family. I don’t really care how bad they are at the game, or how frustrated I get, at the end of the day, I love playing with them. Board games. Video games. MMORPGs. Doesn’t matter. I tend to like playing with others so much better than playing alone. That’s why I’m excited [...]

Okay. It’s my birthday, so I don’t feel like writing anything long. But, I do want to leave you with something awesome.  Here’s nerd god Wil Wheaton’s YouTube show Tabletop. It’s basically awesome people getting together to play tabletop games. You should probably watch it. It’s cool. I’ll be back with a full post next week.  

By: Tim Odom I went into E3 this year with high hopes. With Nintendo on the verge of releasing a new console, that must mean Sony and Microsoft would do something, right? We would see new games, and new hardware, and have a whole bunch of surprises! It was going to be awesome! Then E3 happened. And it, most assuredly, [...]

Recently a Kickstarter Project called Tropes vs. Women in Video Games was brought to my attention. Anita Sarkeesian, of Feminist Frequency, is a feminist (duh) seeking to explore…well…common tropes of women in video games. I’m sure you got that from the title. It’s an interesting topic, and while I’m not a flag-waving, card-carrying, hyper-feminist, I can agree with a lot of her [...]

Technology is going to revolutionize the tabletop gaming industry. Let’s look at some awesome pieces of tech that are going to send gaming INTO THE FUTURE! The ePawn Arena A 26″ screen that lies flat on your table, the ePawn Arena accurately detects specific magnetic nodes that you place on your miniatures. The Arena does so well and tracks so [...]

I am terrified of zombies. I also love zombies. I love zombie movies, shows and merchandise. You know those stick people that folks put on the backs of their cars? Usually, you’ve got a dad, mom, kids and pets or some variation, right? Well, my favorite is the zombie stick person chasing the stick people! Cracks me up every time! [...]

There are those games that have that unforgettable quality– a game that after you are done playing it, you are completely satisfied. Finishing it gives some sort of closure that just makes you feel… happy. Then there are those games that when they end all you want is another game: as if the game was made specifically for the purpose [...]

John wrote an article yesterday about his disappointment with the current World of Warcraft. I agree with all of his points, but I thought I would take it a step further and talk about the kind of MMO I would want to play. As I was thinking about it, I came up with this formula. Mass Effect’s character creation + [...]