Gen Con 2008 Coverage

Gen Con has been a bit light on the video gaming front this year. If not for Dragon Age, I might have chalked it up as a bust after my first pass of the show floor. Taking a second look, there are a few games worth checking out thanks to a bevy of Euro RPGs developers and the always plucky Atari giving them a way into North America.
Special Edition - August 14, 2008 D&D 4th Edition design, reception, lessons learned, plans for D&D Insider and more! Right click here and "save as" to download. A Power Gamer D30 Megs. Live (sort of) from GenCon, Michael Zenke and Julian Murdoch (me) interview the core design team from Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition.

I Wanna Be Sedated

In 1997 my wife and I abandoned television for a summer. It was a quiet, pleasant time, and I remember feeling rather quickly like we had probably made a good decision. I read some books, we got out more and it our time spent together had more to do with interaction than proximity.

GWJ Visits Robot Panic

This week the GWJ Conference Call crew (minus Julian) paid a visit to the Drunken Gamers Podcast. You may also know them from their old name: Team Fremont Live.
Conference Call

GWJ Conference Call Episode 97

Braid, Geometry Wars 2, Multiple Narratives In Games, Your Emails and more! Everyone is back in the saddle this week on our last show before Gencon. In fact, we might have some special edition Gencon audio pieces throughout the rest of the week! So keep on eye on the page.

The Dance

It’s 7PM. The bar is too noisy. The air is too warm. The hard oak seat of the pub-chair has the softened finish of overworn lacquer – humid, spongy. It’s 7:04. How are we going to recognize each other? I realize I don’t even know a real name. Will we really have anything in common? What if it’s completely awkward?
Platform: The Game

Platform: The Game

At first glance, Platform: The Game reminds one of Portal, with its amnesiac characters, unknown antagonist, and sterile "test rooms" full of deadly robotic traps. But the protagonists of Platform have a much harder lot in life, with

August 11 - 15

You don't tug on Superman's cape. You don't spit into the wind. You don't pull the mask of the ol' Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with ... Madden.
Diablo II at GamersWithJobs.com

Diablo II

I'm sad to admit that I missed out on the Silicon Age of computer gaming, that nebulous timespan between 1985 and 2001 when on-line multiplayer was a tangled web of TCP/IP addresses and the concept of a graphics accelerator card was newfangled futurism. A storied time when games were launched by entering DOS mode and typing something like:

Color My World

I don't really understand how something as minor as the Diablo III color scheme became a big deal, but it definitely did.

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