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 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 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 Jeff Tidball | Oct 21, 2008 | Promotion, Video Games, Websites
My friend Jeremy Bernstein is mad as hell. Being a game designer, he decided that the appropriate “not gonna take it anymore” course of action was to make a game. In Truth Invaders, you control the White House (“use arrow keys to move, spacebar to...
