Category Archives: Games

Warhammer Fantasy RPG 3rd Edition

Posted on 08/10/2010 by Paul

I’m going to post for a bit about a pen-n-paper roleplaying game. It’s nowhere near as a consuming hobby for me as video games, but I’ve been playing and reading RPGs* for about 20 years starting back with Dungeons and … Continue reading →

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SotS 2 Trailer

Posted on 07/07/2010 by Paul

My friends at Kerberos have released a teaser for their sequel game out Spring of 2011. Great job for a dozen or so people and a small budget. Lots of detail and style packed into those polygons. Looking forward to … Continue reading →

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Steam’s Summer Sale

Posted on 06/24/2010 by Paul

I can’t remember the last time I purchased a boxed PC game from a retail store.* It’s just too easy to buy them from Steam online and get it downloaded directly to my PC. Twice a year, the other time … Continue reading →

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RockBand (3) Pro

Posted on 06/16/2010 by Paul

At first glance the changes in RockBand 3, out this holiday season, are a little yawn worthy. Vocal harmonies (introduced in Beatles and continued in Green Day), better party and in game people management (stolen from Guitar Hero 5), improvements … Continue reading →

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Games of 2009 (pre-lockdown)

Posted on 11/26/2009 by Paul

Here’s some thoughts on the games I’ve played in 2009 in executive-bullet-point style. Lists are in no particular order. There’s some big games missing from this list. As you probably know my birthday is 12/24 and I have a reasonable … Continue reading →

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RPG on the Surface

Posted on 10/20/2009 by Paul

Here’s a demo video of a group of D&D-ers playing a game on one of those touch screen MS Surface thingies. This is more impressive to me than the expensive custom made gaming tables. Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough from Visual Story … Continue reading →

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Section 8

Posted on 09/05/2009 by Paul

No I’m not talking about crazy military people or low income housing. Since it’s me you should have guessed that Section 8 is the name for a video game. (Some gagdet would also have been an acceptable, but incorrect, answer.) … Continue reading →

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Rock Band Network

Posted on 07/18/2009 by Paul

This is pretty huge. Billboard has the details on the outsourcing of Rock Band tracks to any music copyright holders called Rock Band Network. In the next two months a service will be starting up that allows bands, studios, and … Continue reading →

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Blood Bowl

Posted on 07/03/2009 by Paul

Wow, that’s pretty bad when the last two posts on this blog are the weekly Twitter summaries and only one tweet each. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say I’m just too lazy to type it up sometimes. … Continue reading →

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Sword of the Stars Sale

Posted on 06/11/2009 by Paul

Apologies in advance for the blatant advertising. As readers know my friends at Kerberos Productions developed a space “4X” strategy game for the PC called Sword of the Stars back in 2006. Well amost three years later, after two expansions, numerous … Continue reading →

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