Perspectives

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.

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.

When a video game publisher revives a derelict franchise and hands over the reins to a new crew to find out if there is any gas left in the tank, the usual result is a game inspired by its predecessor, but one that refuses to allow itself to be defined by the past.

Figures that Boston’s other annual gaming conference would be held in a building called NERD.

Atlus is one of the few companies that make games I always buy when they come out on the strength of their name alone. I trust their quality, and they're always thought provoking experiences. In a game-scape of sequels and re-treads, strangled with corporate shills looking only at the bottom line, they somehow thrive on doing things no other company would dare.

What a delightfully weird game The Darkness is.

Scientists at New Mexico State University's nonprofit Chile Pepper Institute recently announced that they had successfully bred a brand new, medium spicy, extra large jalapeño, specially optimized for "increased cheese payload." -Nicola Twilley, Good.is

Lebanon tells the story of an Israeli tank crew on the first day of the 1982 invasion. The entire film takes place inside the tank, and our only glimpses of the outside world come through the gunner's optics.

If you're one of the folks who should probably get off my lawn, you may have no idea what I'm talking about here. Steel Battalion is an original Xbox game of giant robot combat that came out in 2002.

A man in a corner is never going to shut up. If he shuts up, if he says what I knew I should say, "Call my lawyer," then he's going to the station, he's going to get booked, he's going to court. For a guy in a jam, there's only one way out, to keep explaining, hoping that somehow bullsh*t buys liberty. – Mack Malloy, Pleading Guilty by Scott Turow

Perspectives

Hollowpoint

Trust in Skyrim

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Impressions (PC)

GameLoop Boston 2011

Catherine

One Moment

Filler

Through a Gunsight

Steel Battalion

The Interrogation Game

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