TrailerGames
Star Wars Eclipse (new PC/console game: trailer).
Quantic Dream is currently working on Star Wars Eclipse, a new PC/console adventure game set in the High Republic period. Here’s their first…
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Games
Computer and board games.
December 2021
November 2021
NewsGames
Crown and Dragon: skirmish wargame rules (game news).
There’s a Kickstarter for the new Crown & Dragon skirmish wargame rules extension, an add-on to the original Savage Worlds Crown & Dragon RPG –…
TrailerGames
8-Bit Christmas (gaming movie: trailer).
8-Bit Christmas is a look back at the experiences of childhood from New Line Cinema and HBO Max. In suburban Chicago in the…
October 2021
NewsGames
Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (author interview).
Author Jon Peterson sits down with David Barr Kirtley to chat for an hour about Jon’s new non-fiction book, Game Wizards: The Epic…
NewsGames
Choose Your Own Adventure Books: their rise and fall (documentary: video in full).
Choose Your Own Adventure Books were a big thing back in the day, bringing D&D-like fantasies to the masses. Until they weren’t. What…
NewsGames
Japan’s massive computer game arcades are dying (video).
It’s sad but true, Japan’s massive computer game arcades are dying. Arcades in Japan are known as ‘Game Centers,’ and they are rapidly…
July 2021
NewsGames
Mass Effect – would it make a better TV series, or a film? (video)
Mass Effect is one of the most popular space opera games you can get for the PC. There has long been talk of…
ReviewComputers
Aliens: Fireteam (game review).
Is Aliens: Fireteam the glorious bug-hunting PC game we should have got a few decades ago? Just watch the spalsh of acid, my…
May 2021
NewsGames
Airship Academy steampunk computer game (news).
There’s a new steampunk fantasy computer game coming out from Steam in 2022 called Airship Academy which involves a nice bit of airship…
April 2021
NewsGames
Iron Harvest steampunk/dieselpunk strategy game gets an American-themed expansion – Operation Eagle (game news).
If you like your real-time strategy games with a dieselpunk and steampunk twist, then you are going to like the new Operation Eagle…
March 2021
ReviewFantasy
Beowulf: Age Of Heroes by Jon Hodgson, David Rea and Jacob Rodgers (RPG review).
‘Beowulf: Age Of Heroes’ is an expansion to ‘Dungeons And Dragons 5e’ and so it assumes you have access to the basic Player’s…
ReviewBooks
Virtual Cities: An Atlas & Exploration of Video Game Cities by Konstantinos Dimopoulos (book review).
Subtitled ‘An Atlas And Exploration Of Video Game Cities’, ‘Virtual Cities’ is a chunky hardback explores 45 iconic or just plain interesting cities…