Recent content by bkd69

That's why I recommended Soth, where the game exists more as conversation between the GM and players. Fiasco is another good alternative, as there's GM, no actual combat, and the events are determined solely by dice roll, but narrated and expanded by the players. Inspectres takes a more...

SMH. If you look over the top of your article, you'll see a bar with several categories, and a couple of steps over from Video Games, you'll see a tab with the word 'Tabletop.' There you'll find the role playing you're looking for. I suggest Soth...

In other news: The Nikkei stock index took a drastic hit as the futures markets imploded, due to fears of massive productivity slowdowns in the Japanese economy.

This is why editors matter, kids. First, it's spelled 'influential,' not 'influencial.' At least turn on your spell check. Second, on a site that covers both tabletop and video gaming, 'RPG' on its own is ambiguous. You should have used 'CRPG' in the title at least, if not in the whole...

Hipster Geek has not only seen Black Books, Hipster Geek has seen Dirk Gently, Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, Nathan Barley, and watched Spaced during its initial American broadcast, which was only over a couple of weeks at 2am on one of the lesser (at the time) cable channels. Hipster Geek is now...

Thanks JarinArenos. A TV series writer, yes, but the main series that he's known for is Spaced. That's cred enough right there. And besides Hot Fuzz, there's Shaun of the Dead, Run Fatboy Run, and Paul. As well as hitting the trifecta of SF as an actor, Star Wars, Star Trek, and Dr. Who...

For my money, Clancy's most valuable contribution to gaming was helping to popularize Harpoon (for suitably scaled values of popular). But then, I consider Warren Spector's most valuable contribution to gaming to be Toon, so I'm probably not the best judge of such things.

The short answer: Humble Bundle Periodically they'll have a humble android bundle. Also, some of the big FOSS games have been ported as well: Ur-Quan Masters OpenTTD FreeCiv Wesnoth doesn't seem to be available in a free edition. Also available is Droid Tower, an adaptation of the...

It's effecting game devs too: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2013/12/18/indie-developers-rail-against-youtube-after-being-targeted-copyright-claims#.UrIXFLQudX8

Not even the venerable Star Wars arcade machine? http://www.cosc.brocku.ca/Offerings/3P98/course/lectures/intro/star_wars_large.png Omitting the RotJ I can see, but not the great granddaddy of them all.

Called it. Six years ago: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.88967-PS3-Is-it-worth-the-money?page=2#1381213 Seeing how large a segment streaming boxes have become, that would have given Sony a huge lead in the market, but knowing Sony, they would have saddled it with their own...

One of the VPs of Introversion said the same thing about piracy...when you have multiplayer matchmaking, you owe it to your paying customers that they have as large a pool as possible, so it's counterproductive to be too aggressive about piracy.

Feh. Gargoyles or Swat Kats? You people should be thinking much further afield, especially with the likes of Adult Swim as a venue. While they both have a lot of good memories for you all, I'm sure, as well as many of the other popular cartoons that have been mentioned, Reboot, Freakazoid, et...

Nvidia's hardly an unbiased source, as most of their revenue comes from the PC Gaming market. Cum grano salis, my friends, cum grano salis.

Mobile PHONE license, maybe, but at least one of the Gold Box games was ported to the GBA. Though you may be distinguishing between mobile referring to gaming on a portable general purpose device, and portable referring to gaming on portable dedicated device, which may not be an unuseless...