State of Play--The Gaming Blog
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

INTERVIEW: Alf Seegert Takes the Road to Canterbury

›
Alf Seegert and friend playing Road to Canterbury I don't recall when I first heard about The Road to Canterbury, but I knew I had to...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

The Lewis Chessmen in New York

›
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting the Lewis Chessmen until April 22, 2012. Thirty of the 78 pieces will be on display in the Romane...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Comments Temporarily Turned Off

›
An aggressive twit has been carpet-bombing my site with spam all morning, so comments are turned off for now. Sorry for the inconvenience. ...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Draw a Stickman

›
Your Monday morning time-waster  is this charming little slice of interactive animation.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Ticket to Ride on iPhone/Touch

›
Up till now, the mobile version of Days of Wonder's hit train game Ticket to Ride has only be available for iPad, but today DOW is roll...

REVIEW: Gubs

›
GameWright Games Price: $12 Players: 2-6 Ages: 10+ Time: 10-20 minutes The first layer of family game testing here at Casa McD is th...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Quoits: It's Not Horseshoes, Really (English Pub Games Series)

›
The complete story of English pub games will appear in the March 2012 issue of Games Magazine. Quite a few traditional pub games involve h...

Kindle: The Next Front in the App War?

›
I wasn't too surprised to learn this morning that Amazon is highlighting gaming and multimedia potential of their new Fire device . That...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

DC Universe Online Goes Free

›
Sony Online Entertainment announced that players can now download and play its massively multiplayer online (MMO) action game DC Universe On...

REVIEW: Space Marine

›
When my son started going to Games Workshop stores about a year ago, I thought: "This is what happens when you're not careful about...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

National Gaming Day Is...

›
... November 12th . The American Library Association is promoting a day of gaming at more than 1100 libraries across the country. Sponsor Fa...

Oil Springs of Catan and Ethical Gaming

›
Catan: Oil Springs is an impressive, free-to-download variant to the Mother of all Eurogames. Settlers on the island of Catan have struck o...

Aunt Sally: More Things to Knock Down Without Spilling Your Beer

›
Aunt Sally was the inspiration for my research into English pub games. The game was featured the British detective series Midsomer Murders, ...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

REVIEW: Deus Ex: Human Revolution

›
I've reviewed Deus Ex: Human Revolution twice now: from a secular perspective for Games Magazine and from a religious perspective for Ca...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Skittles: Knocking Stuff Down Without Spilling Your Beer

›
This is part of my ongoing research on traditional British pub games. The complete, expanded article will appear in the March 2012 issue of ...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Dwile Flonking: More Fun With Beer

›
In 1967, an ancient pub game was brought back into the light, complete with the discovery of an old text—the Wavenly Rules of 1585 —to bolst...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The iPhone Not-Quite-5

›
By now, you're probably aware that the Big Apple Announcement was not an iPhone 5, but an iPhone 4S . That "S" stands for, ...
Monday, October 3, 2011

The Game of Trussing

›
We found this one in the American Boy's Book of Sports and Games (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1864) , and thought it sounded like the kind of...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Boardcrafting: For the Catan Fan Who Has Everything

›
Tile-shifting can be moderately annoying when playing Catan, so a San Francisco craftsman is creating wooden tile sets and frames for the ba...

Les Osselets (Knucklebones)

›
 "Les Osselets" (The Game of Knucklebones) by Jean-Baptise-Someon Chardin, 1734 A little bit of art for your weekend. This pai...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Thomas L. McDonald
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.