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I'm a geek. A nerd, a dweeb, whatever. Yes I owned garb, yes I still own medieval weaponry. And yeah, I could kick your butt in Mechwarrior the CCG. I love video games, role playing games, tactical board games and all forms of speculative fiction. I will never berate someone for wanting to be a Jedi and take everything Gary Gygax ever wrote as gospel. Well, all of this but that last bit.
Of Orcs and Empire
Since their introduction to Aruneus, the Orcs have congregated in the tundras and northern reaches of the world. A once great kingdom which stretched most of the span of Aruneus' northern continent, the Orcs were beaten by the League of the Ring and their empire collapsed into a series of small city states and clan holdings. Over time even these city states faded, unable to support a larger, stable population and the Orcs became a semi-nomadic, clannish race.
Continue reading...Scribblenauts 2 announced as I buy a new stylus
Monday, March 8, 2010
My all time favorite game for the DS is just about to get a new installment. Scribblenauts was one of the few games that ate up more than three or four hours on my DS and actually caused a bit of ire between my wife and I as we made desperate run/jumps for it after the kids went to bed.
Continue reading...New authors and lots of new RPG coverage!
Friday, March 5, 2010
Over the last few days you certainly have noticed a number of new posts featuring new authors. I recently put out a query asking if anyone was interesting in having their say on Troll in the Corner. The response was wonderful and I think you're really going to enjoy the sudden wealth of entertaining and fresh new talent you'll be seeing over the next few weeks.
Continue reading...Hellion shows off a bunch of in game shots. Looks very pretty, in a manly, gaming kind of way.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
I've been following Hellion's development for a little while now. I'm much more interested in this game then I was in Dante's Inferno. This is shaping up to be more of an experience and less of a God of War clone. I like that.
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The Order of the White Cloth is possibly the one human organization to profit greatly from the zombie apocalypse
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The Order of the White Cloth is possibly the one human organization to profit greatly from the zombie apocalypse. Shortly before the undead rose the Order was large but politically not a strong entity. When they found themselves spread throughout all of the human realms(with small temples in several Elven and Dwarven cities as well) though their spiritual leader High Priest Dain seized the opportunity. He immediately communicated to all of his subordinates that they were to spare no effort in driving back the undead hordes and saving what they could of any settlements they found themselves in.
Continue reading...Sid Meier’s Civ V to hit the shelves this fall for PC gamers. There goes my winter.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
I have and always will have a soft spot in my heart for all of Sid's Civ games. Starting with number I I have probably logged a good thousand hours on various Civ franchises and enjoyed every hour. Now there's a new Civilization on the horizon - Civ V! Yes, built on a new engine from 'the ground up' as is standard practice when creating new versions of the game. Looks pretty sharp too. Here are some facts and screen shots. Also in the works - Civ Network, a Civ based game for . . . Facebook? Woah.
Continue reading...Magic users and the death of a world
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Magic users have little freedom in this new world. Sorcerers, always rare, have all but vanished. Wizards, those who seek the magical arts through learning, have only three choices open to them. Become slaves to the Order of the White Cloth, become renegade and die by their hands along with all of those you love, or hide the powers of magic deeply and vanish into a solitary existence.
Continue reading...Mount & Blade Warband – Interview video with Armagan Yavuz, lead developer
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Mount & Blade was a game that was first brought to my attention a few years ago when it was just a beta, looking for some love. It took me a while but I finally got around to playing it and now I'm kicking myself for not picking it up much earlier. I've had it now for just over a year and it's one of two or three games I consistently return to when I've finished with The Next Big Thing.
Continue reading...Tex: Vampire Hunter to screen at Beloit International Film Festival in Wisconsin
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Last year I was able to catch up with Gabriel, filmsmith and all around cool guy who was developing Tex: Vampire Hunter (or) Make Thick My Blood: A Tragedy in One Act. The film had a bunch of stuff going for it right from the outset. Vampires. Cowboys. Jen Page. Blood and gore. All the good stuff.
Continue reading...Troll Polls
Loading ...- Bridge Troll - the game of building bridges and eating people
- New video game drops today. For the Amiga!
- Bridge Troll - A new card game we can get excited about
- Star Trek Reviewed
- Zombies in Fantasyland - or creating a fantasy world that experienced a zombie apocalypse 100 years ago.
- The Forever War to be filmed in 3D, murdering a significant chunk of my teen years
- Mount & Blade Warband - new gameplay trailer
- BOH (new game for Amiga, Windows or Mac) creator Simone Bevilacqua submits to a grueling 8 question interview
- Jen Page is a chaotic-neutral gamer, actress, geek and our latest interview subject
- An Old Friend has Come Home to Stay
- Festival Tents: The game play in this is fantastic, just like guit...
- link wheel: Tex has a good review.... ...
- gainesville bike shop: Any vampire related movie excites me.... ...
- Ben: Hey John, it looks you may be something of a spamm...
- John Broker: What is a Role-Playing Game?...
- Stories with Meaning
- Of Orcs and Empire
- Old-School Gaming with OSRIC (Review – Races and Classes)
- Voices and Verisimilitude
- Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks
- Why I’m Glad 4e Exists, Even Though I Don’t Use It
- Shotgun Diaries: Lightweight Zombie Roleplaying
- Scribblenauts 2 announced as I buy a new stylus
- Putting Gaming out in Public
- Runewars: high fantasy warfare with not enough war
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