In preparation for our annual Extra Life Charity game, Seth and I decided to run a few online RPGs with our various crews, just to make sure we kept those role-playing muscles nice and loose-like. Immediately seizing the opportunity to chose the game that I would lead, I thrust the rulebook for “Monsterhearts” into everyone’s
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Krystian Majewski recently published a post called Netrunner: The Way to Win is Not to Play in which he discusses the way in which certain powerful strategies in Netrunner function by subverting the normal flow of play and ideally cutting out your opponent’s ability to do anything. Go read that now, because it’s an interesting look
Greetings all! With great shame, I must admit that my “Unearthing” Editorial is running far, far behind. Part of this was because I foolishly thought I could write it today. The same day I was writing other important papers (for things I do in exchange for currency). Then I compounded my foolishness by seeing Edge
LINK: “Videogames and Scientific Revolutions” by Peter Christiansen (Oct. 9th, 2013) Videogames and Scientific Revolutions In keeping with our theme this past week, Thursday’s link about tech trees and scientific progress comes from the astoundingly great collaborative blog “Play the Past.” Reading Seth’s posts about Timeline and Master of Orion 2 reminded me of Peter
Yesterday’s Expansion Pack has me thinking a lot about technological advancement, so come with me as I muse about that classic 4X space strategy game, Master of Orion II. MoO2’s “tech tree” is really just eight parallel lines representing different fields of scientific advancement, from biology to physics to sociology. There is no cross-pollination between
This feature is a companion to my board game reviews on the Extra Life Community Blog. You can find my review of Timeline: Inventions here. One of the interesting patterns that arose as I was playing Timeline: Inventions was the way in which people would be wrong. More often than not, when someone guessed at
LINK: “The Unearthing” by Leigh Alexander (May 30th, 2014) http://leighalexander.net/the-unearthing Truthfully, most of the readers here ought to have already read this piece by this point. Published on Friday, Leigh Alexander’s authentically Gonzo piece about the ET unearthing is a great followup to the Weekend Linkbait. Over the course of the weekend I saw
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The panel at the bottom of the cell door slid away briefly as a tray with a single cup of coffee slid through. The prisoner turned, picked up the cup, and sniffed. Dark roast Colombian, he thought as he turned back to the computer screen that was the only light in the cell. While Herr
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http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/5/30/5730962/et-landfill-dig-atari
In terms of setting the bar for Features and Editorials, Polygon has steadily maintained that title with relative ease in comparison to its more breaking-news oriented competitors. With topics ranging from an Oral History of Street Fighter to a Photo Essay of Gaming in West Africa, Polygon has continuously stretched boundaries of what and why Gaming journalism is.
This particular post, published yesterday, is a great example of Polygon doing their thing. I never realized that the landfill excavation took so long to get off the ground, and reading about how this important (for Gaming Historians, at least) dig became tied up in local politics was also interesting to discover. If the news stories about the Alamogordo dig refused to satiate your urges for more information, let this article by Matt Leone satisfy you.
Picture, if you will, a figure struggling through an endless expanse of desert. The sun sets purposefully in front of him, piercing his eyes with its rays while promising the caress of frigid night air in due time. The figure runs with a sense of purpose towards the West. In front of him rises a
