Diablo 3: Meet the Hardcore Crüe

I’m very “anti” boring stuff in games these days. So after I finished my first run through of Diablo 3 and joined a public group to bring down Diablo him herself in one of the most telegraphed, least surprising twists EVER — anyway — I started in on Nightmare mode and found myself doing the … Read more

D&D4E: The Keep on the Shadowfell: the end.

We’d battled our way to nearly the deepest depths of the measureless halls and caverns beneath the demonic Keep on the Shadowfell. We’d met slimes and jellies and bug-lizards and drakes and gnomes and goblins and goblins of the hob variety. We’d fed Splug to a carnivorous pool. We’d waded through hordes of skeletons and … Read more

Will Kickstarter usher in the age of boutique gaming?

In Tim Schafer’s first post-funding update for his Kickstarter-funded old school adventure game, he’s stunned and overjoyed that the project attracted over $3 million in funding for a desired level of just $400,000. A recently cancelled game had left the future of Double Fine uncertain; there would have to have been layoffs, but now it’s … Read more

D&D4e: The Splug, The

The screenshot tells the story. Me and Wenner unconscious, Sheeoil dead, only Bryn alive to finish the fight against the ravenous but somewhat stupid blue slime. And what of Splug? What of the goblin who gained our trust and betrayed us, literally backstabbing us? What of Splug, indeed? After we finished scraping off the lizard-bug … Read more