by Jeff Tidball | Feb 5, 2009 | RPGs, Story
Here’s the background: Over the weekend, Ryan Macklin (RyanMacklin), Rich Rogers (orklord), and I (jefftidball) went around a little bit, 140 characters at a time, on Ryan’s recent frustration with what he was calling “goal-focused RPG...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 4, 2009 | Design, RPGs, Websites
Jared Sorensen is an instigator. Last year, he challenged would-be game publishers to form companies, make games, and publish them for a price of exactly $1 apiece. On February 3rd, Sorensen named his winner: The Five. I haven’t played it, I don’t know if...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 3, 2009 | Fantasy, MMOs, Movies, RPGs, Video Games
Machinima isn’t typically my thing… but tell me this isn’t story + game: The Craft of War: BLIND from percula on Vimeo. Wonderfully done. Fight scenes this complicated can be headaches to choreograph and cut, but the elaborate layers of action here...
by Will Hindmarch | Jan 30, 2009 | Promotion, RPGs
Mutant City Blues, the newest GUMSHOE-system game from RPG expert Robin D. Laws and Pelgrane Press, is almost here and Pelgrane commissioner Simon Rogers is very excited about it. The game is a police procedural mystery/thriller RPG in a world of super-powered...
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...
