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Swords and Plowshares: Civilization 5 and the Gods & Kings Expansion

Posted by Colleen "momgamer" Hannon –
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." - Mao Tse-Tung

Wanna Get Away?

Posted by J.P. "kincher skolfax" Grant –
I wanted to hate Pocket Planes, I really did. At first, Nimblebit’s follow-up to its freemium iOS hit Tiny Tower certainly felt like the same species of cute-but-empty time-suck.

Johann Sebastian Joust

Posted by Julian "rabbit" Murdoch –
The most amazing thing about Johann Sebastian Joust isn’t any component of the gameplay. It’s not the sound design (which is fantastic), the simplicity of the experience (which is fantastic) or the physical folk-game goofiness of shoving your friends (which is fantastic). It’s that it’s political.

The Prisoner's Dilemma

Posted by Erik "wordsmythe" Hanson –
Back in Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, players began as they step off a ship, having been released from prison and shipped to a colony off the mainland by special order of the emperor.
Galaxy At War main screen - ME3 Datapad app

Farmer in the Sky: Mass Effect Companion Apps

Posted by Colleen "momgamer" Hannon –
Yes, I'm talking about Mass Effect 3 again. Not the game itself, but the supporting applications. There are two of them: the ME3 Datapad app, and a full-on iOS game called Mass Effect: Infiltrator.

Zombies, Run!

Posted by Julian "rabbit" Murdoch –
“I got an email from Korenchkin this morning saying he was coming up for an inspection. And when he arrived it was... something... revolting... it was Anatoly... but it wasn't... at the same time it seemed beautiful... and I felt like part of it... He sang to us... all of us... and we felt like one of Many...”System Shock Audio Log

Dear Esther Revisited

Posted by Charlie "TheWanderer" Hall –
Fair warning: I’m not going to just spoil Dear Esther. I’m going to ruin it. If you haven’t played it already go do it now, as I won’t be held responsible for my actions after the break. As a special favor to me, maybe play it twice.
N-Control Avenger

N-control Avenger

Posted by Colleen "momgamer" Hannon –
I'm sure you've all heard about the silliness going on about the N-control Avenger. That whole PR mess sucks for the people who make these things. At last PAX East, I got one to review. I'm sad to say it got tangled up in a larger article about assistive gaming technologies that has yet to get itself together.
Hollowpoint cover

Hollowpoint

Posted by mwdowns –
My first ever D&D session ended this past spring when the DM's campaign lost its focus and peoples' schedules began to conflict with our play time. My expat friends and I had used D&D as a way to pass the too-long winter here on Sado, and even though I had gotten bored of that particular campaign, I was still interested in giving PnP RPGs a little bit more time.

Trust in Skyrim

Posted by Charlie "TheWanderer" Hall –
My D&D group, now in its fourth year, is closing in on level 11. This campaign finds them at the Half League House, in our world a combination Prancing Pony and the roadhouse in From Dusk Till Dawn. The colorful retinue of Synergistic Enterprises LLC. includes a pyromaniac warlord, a Githyanki stat whore, and a particularly virile minotaur.

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