by Will Hindmarch | Mar 25, 2013 | Board Games, card games, Fan Culture, Play, Promotion, RPGs, Websites
Geek & Sundry’s fun and fantastic series about games and gamers, TableTop, is returning for a new season of episodes as soon as April 4th. This is wonderful and welcome news. Host and producer Wil Wheaton hints at some of the games and guests to feature on...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 19, 2012 | Board Games, Creativity, Events, Fan Culture, Promotion, RPGs, Websites
Writer, actor, geek, gamer, and producer Wil Wheaton has a shiny new web series coming to the shiny new YouTube channel, Geek and Sundry. The show’s called TableTop and its something like Celebrity Poker meets Dinner For Five except instead of dinner or poker...
by Will Hindmarch | Nov 2, 2011 | Board Games, Design, Websites
The game designer Elizabeth Sampat has a new blog and its inaugural post is killer. The less I say to prepare you for it, the better. Suffice to say, it is a cutting and heartfelt look not only at Brenda Garno Brathwaite’s Síochán Leat, aka the Irish Game, but at the...
by Will Hindmarch | Oct 24, 2011 | Board Games, card games, Creativity, MMOs, RPGs, Social Games, Video Games
Chris Hardwick, he who founded The Nerdist empire (or, if not empire, then duchy) and hosts the likes of the Nerdist podcast and The Talking Dead, has a book coming out called, fittingly, The Nerdist Way. Hardwick’s also an occasional contributor to Wired (a...
by Will Hindmarch | Oct 12, 2011 | Board Games, Fan Culture, Video Games
Rich Sommer (Mad Men) is a board game fan. Now he’s taking his fandom to the airwaves with this (hopefully recurring) segment about board games for G4’s Attack of the Show. In this first installment, Sommer looks at a game I still haven’t played...
by Will Hindmarch | Jul 3, 2011 | Board Games, card games, Conventions, Dice
This is a short one. I mentioned earlier that I’d played 7 Wonders and Bears! at #Origins2011 and I wanted to say a little bit about them, still. This was my second time playing 7 Wonders — or almost. I came into the middle of a game in progress and took someone...
