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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Xbox Workers Threaten Suicide in China

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It doesn't seem like the most effective way to keep your job , but the subtleties of Chinese labor negotiations are lost on my Western I...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

ToneMatrix: Your Amazing Time-Waster of the Day

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The developer describes ToneMatrix as a "simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step ca...
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Strange Stories of an Accused Spy

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Amir Hekmati On Monday, January 9th, Iran's Revolutionary Court found 29-year-old Amir Hekmati "Corrupt on Earth and Mohareb,” a...
Monday, January 9, 2012

Wizards of the Coast to Revamp D&D Yet Again

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An interesting email just popped into my box, and I was thinking about headlining it "Wizards of the Coast Prepairing to Break D&D ...

Yeaaaah! Skyrim Gets a Little Macho Magic

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I was going to title this one, "Snap Into a Skyrim," but Kotaku beat me to it. A Skyrim mod in which dragons are replaced with the...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

REVIEW: Skyrim

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I've reviewed Skyrim twice and written two editorials about it, and still keep on playing, logging something like 90 hours or so in tota...
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Welcome to a New Year of Gaming

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Good Lord, has it been a month already? These festive seasons sure do take their toll. Between finishing a semester in graduate school, work...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

INTERVIEW: Alf Seegert Takes the Road to Canterbury

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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

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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

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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

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

Ticket to Ride on iPhone/Touch

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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

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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)

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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?

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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

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

REVIEW: Space Marine

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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...

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... 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

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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

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