God Willt
Another book arrived in the post that I'd forgotten about. Deus Vult by Mongoose Publishing is essentially playing the bad guys from The Da Vinci Code but back in the…[...]
New Haul: from Cromwell to Cthulhu via Mirkwood
Today I got a new haul of stuff. Some of these were PDF bundles so at some point the dead tree version of the book will arrive in the post.…[...]
Back again
I've been on a holiday-and-work-fueled hiatus. Two weeks driving in France and Spain and then two weeks spent helping people access seed funding for new ventures in "digital" as part…[...]
Christmas Happened. Woot.
Consisting of Houses of the Blooded, Collins Complete DIY Manual, We Are The People We've Been Waiting For, Simple Boat Maintenance, Hot War, Cold City, Nameless streets, QIN: The Warring…[...]
The Laundry is here
On Thursday I received 'The Laundry' in the post. The announcement came back in March so I was really excited to get the book in the post this week. I…[...]
The Final Frontier. No, really.
Ian Sales writes on his blog: And sometimes those imaginations run a little too free. A lot of science fiction is set in outer space, or on worlds which orbit…[...]
Setting Riff: Oa versus Krypton
A thousand years ago, on the planet Krypton, there was a technologically advanced, cruel and nihilistic race which carved a vast stellar empire, subjugating thousands of civilisations under their regime.…[...]
Cold-Blooded Killers
Lizaur on TheRPGSite commented: Well, the vast majority of RPG has leeengty chapters just about how to kill people, so what do you expect my players do? Being a bunch…[...]
Digital Games can be Social Experiences
Professor Mark Durkin from the University of Ulster suggested: "For customers, the constant and often simultaneous use of laptop, MP3 player, smart phone and TV, especially by our young people,…[...]
Once, Twice, Three Times a Detective
Dolgion Chuluunbaatar of Gamasutra writes about non-linear adventure games: As I was on vacation, I picked up my sister's copy of Sherlock Holmes stories, and quickly I got caught up…[...]
Current Inspirations
Portal - for the non-violent nature of it and the neat teleportation physics puzzles. And removing half of the stupid ways to die. And for this. Mirror's Edge on iPad…[...]
8 Bit Demakes
This article describes 8 bit de-makes - remaking some of todays popular games in 8 bit and 16 bit forms. Some of them still look amazing such as Little Big…[...]
Runnin and Jumpin genre mash
Earlier this week, we had a meeting of local iOS developers and we segued into a conversation about the development of game ideas ahead of a 'gamestorming' event we have…[...]
I would not have played if…
From Wired: A federal judge is allowing a negligence lawsuit to proceed against the publisher of the online virtual-world game Lineage II, amid allegations that a Hawaii man became so…[...]
Sunday afternoons are punctuated with the sounds of war.
Izaak had his Scout 3 training at Games Workshop yesterday and afterwards he decided that he was going to focus on building an army of Chaos Space Marines and that…[...]
Reunited
Today I moved about 150 kgs of my gaming collection to my house from my parents house. Keen-eyed geeks will be able to easily identify some of the game books…[...]
Bug Eyed Monsters
From Beyond the Beyond at Wired. See More.[...]
2010 has been shit for gaming so far
Not much gaming this year so far. But we did watch [•REC]2. Which scared the bejasus out of me just the same way [•REC] did. Except for the ending which…[...]
Tax breaks for UK Video Games Companies
So yeah, talk to me if you need game ideas. I'm rarin' to go. That's what LateGaming is - it's an idea factory.[...]
The Doctor has arrived!
[caption id="attachment_620" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="The new Dr Who RPG from Cubicle 7"][/caption] It arrived. And I've been preparing. I'ved watched five episodes of Torchwood (the Children of Earth miniseries) as…[...]