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World of Warcraft players better hires than MBAs from Harvard!
Who should you be hiring in this downturn? Harvard MBAs or World of Warcraft players? One top expert reckons it’s the latter every…
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Games
Computer and board games.
January 2013
December 2012
ReviewBooks
Eclipse Phase: Rimward: The Outer System (RPG review).
‘Rimward’ is a setting book for Eclipse Phase, the futuristic role-playing game (RPG) of transhuman conspiracy and horror, detailing the settlements and societies…
ReviewGames
Star Trek: Catan board game (board game review)
‘Settlers of Catan’ is a celebrated board game in which you gather resources, trade with your opponents and build roads and settlements in…
NewsFantasy
The Hobbit cast get it on with their Lego Minifigs.
Call this shameless marketing for Lego Minifigs if you will… we’re just a corporate whore at heart, but let’s face it, if Lego…
NewsStar Wars
World’s largest Star Wars figure collection, currently $8k in online auction.
And I thought I had a large collection of Star Wars figures (only from my youth, you understand… not allowed to fill the…
November 2012
ReviewGames
Blood Bowl: Team Manager (card game review)
A quick clarification. ‘Blood Bowl: Team Manager’ is a spin-off game of another highly successful board-game called ‘Blood Bowl’. That game was first…
NewsGames
Free to play now, is Star Wars The Old Republic.
Hmmm, pay you used to have to, for massively multiplayer online game Star Wars The Old Republic. But from today, free it is.…
NewsScifi
Hello Halo 4.
Today is the day when the space marine-sized boots of Master Chief crunches through the dirt of the Halo 4 game launch, hoping…
October 2012
NewsFantasy
Guardians of Middle-earth 101.
Need a lesson in how to play the new Guardians of Middle-earth game? Well, if the next Peter Jackson film doesn’t make you…
NewsDoctor Who
Doctor Who has a Monopoly! (board game)
Doctor Who has long had a semi-official monopoly on science fiction in the UK, at least in the hearts of many scifi fans.…
TrailerGames
Bioshock Infinite trailer.
Bioshock Infinite is coming, and they want to take some of those steampunk kudos currently being stolen by Dishonored. So, watch the trailer…
TrailerScifi
Halo 4 trailer.
There’s a new trailer just out for the upcoming Halo 4 game which shows the kind of maltreatment you have to go through…