by Will Hindmarch | Jan 26, 2009 | Board Games, card games, MMOs, RPGs, Video Games
This was tough, but we’ve got the winner in our Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria contest. We had some great entries submitted to us in comments and via email, but there can be only one winner. Some submissions were wonderfully provocative, some cut to...
by Will Hindmarch | Jan 19, 2009 | Board Games, Design, MMOs, RPGs, Video Games
Krist Novoselic, bassist of Nirvana, tries out Rock Band: More recently, while walking through a one-stop shopping center, I encountered the Rock Band 2 video game. It was set up on display for customers to try. I know about Rock Band, because Nirvana has some songs...
by Will Hindmarch | Jan 13, 2009 | Video Games, Writing
The Writer’s Guild of America has named its 2009 videogame-writing award nominees. Just what these nominations are rewarding is unclear. Presumably it’s something like an “outstanding performance in a comedy, miniseries, or musical variety...
by Will Hindmarch | Dec 22, 2008 | Fantasy, MMOs, Promotion, RPGs
The game I’ve been playing the most, without a doubt, and for something like the past year, is Lord of the Rings Online. I’ve written about it around here before, and I’ll write about it again soon. More fun than reading about the game, though, is...
by Will Hindmarch | Dec 17, 2008 | Books, Horror, Promotion
Ken Hite is a genius. He’s so bright that if you stand next to him you cast no shadow. He travels the universe absorbing books whole, transmuting information into knowledge in a clean-burning process that produces only text and conversation in its wake. In the...
