by Jeff Tidball | Jun 9, 2009 | Board Games, Promotion
The week before last, I was part of an informal conference call Ed Healy put together among a handful of board game pros. He calls it Gamerati; you can download the edited audio from his site (link below). Thrill, if you like, to my passionate plea that board games...
by Will Hindmarch | May 25, 2009 | Board Games, Design, Fantasy, MMOs, Musing, RPGs
Steven Soderbergh talking to Roger Ebert about The Girlfriend Experience: “I’d give them a basic goal for the scene, like ‘don’t let him sell you a package of workout sessions,’ and turn them loose. I’d say 95 percent of the film is...
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 Jeff Tidball | Jan 21, 2009 | Board Games, Design, Miniatures, Video Games
I’ve been playing in a Blood Bowl league for the past year or so with a group of guys I haven’t otherwise been much in contact with since high school. As we get together on the second Sunday of each month, I frequently find myself thinking, this game...
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 Jeff Tidball | Jan 6, 2009 | Board Games, card games, Design, Movies, RPGs, Story, Writing
A couple of months ago, I read a post on Signal vs. Noise about the virtue of packing half of what you think you’ll need. They’re generalizing from travel advice like this… You see that pile of stuff sitting on your bed, waiting to be stuffed into your...
