Uh, yeah I kinda screwed the pooch on that one. We recorded a quick talk about our experiences playing Hecatomb and Rocketmen, and about the Penny Arcade “CCG” kerfuffle, but the audio levels are way too low and the thing is just horribly noisy and unsalvageable. The worse news is
Author: Mike Sugarbaker
How Neverwinter Nights fought its own mission statement
We all pretty much know that the attempted D&D-esque network play of Neverwinter Nights was too difficult to use for people trying to emulate the tabletop experience, but this first-person account by a frustrated GM really illuminates the problems we face when we try to take advantage of online play
And then Mattel got into it: Hot Wheels CCG
The Hot Wheels Acceleracers CCG has slick introductory videos and a Cartoon Network series backing it up. Can a Barbie CCG be far behind? Oh God no. Or oh God yes, I can’t quite deci — no, that’s a lie, a Barbie CCG would be horrifying de facto. I just
Sabertooth announces Penny Arcade CCG, geek culture implodes under own weight of self-reference
I am actually looking forward to this. I love the strip, and it looks like the creators have been deeply involved in creating the cards and artwork. It looks like the Penny Arcade CCG is designed around some Vs.-esque system where you can take any two decks from however many
OgreCave Audio: Games Expo, Games Workshop, games-tastic!
Audio is smoother than last time, but a bit quiet. (You’d rather hear the end theme music than me anyway.) But it’s there now and you may jump on it. Gently, please – this one’s nearly an hour and we are hosting it ourselves. We’ll see how long that lasts.
Diana Jones rushes in breathlessly
This year’s Diana Jones Award shortlist has finally been announced, leaving the committee about ninety seconds to vote before the winner is announced in the traditional pre-Gen Con ceremony. The list comprises innovative chat-RPG hybrid Code of Unaris, the hailed indie RPG Dogs in the Vineyard, and the ubiquitous-for-a-reason Ticket
Warmachine: The Card Game (note: lies)
1) Wow, we really haven’t posted since the podcast. 2) New podcast will be up Monday night probably. 3) The Warmachine Faction Decks are the best product Privateer has ever made. They comprise one (or, in the case of warjacks commonly fielded in groups, more) of each character card for
Introducing the OgreCave Audio Report
So, Chris wanted to podcast, and I said, “Okay.” The OgreCave Audio Report is a weekly half-hour-or-less on the gaming industry topics of the week, plus what we are playing and liking. We figure we spend enough time just kind of Waldorfing about gaming stuff that we may as well
Games Expo 2007: beginning of the end of GTS?
As you might expect, the announcement of the vaguely Games Quarterly-affilliated is wreckin’ all kinds of shop out there. GAMA loyalists are calling it unprofessional, divisive, et cetera; those less than happy with GTS as an industry trade show claim that GTS wasn’t super likely to go on in 2007
Computer-based paper magazine on computer-based paper games
On one level it’s a shame about Escapist magazine’s relentless insistence on the forms and tropes of paper magazines in a digital medium… but on the other, at least they do it well. And check out this talk with Greg Gorden, designer of the original James Bond 007 and, yes,
Any excuse for a haiku contest is a good one
And a Knizia board game with John Howe art about Beowulf is an especially good excuse. To wit: No, it’s not co-op. It comes out in October. Here’s the contest link.
Chris Pramas on WFRP sales and the industry’s info-poverty
The new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay sold better than anything else GR has done lately, but you wouldn’t know it from Comics and Games Retailer, which most of the retailers I’ve talked to cite as the only entity actually trying to deliver sales rankings. Well, apparently there’s another now,
Confrontation publishers plan pre-painted, non-collectible mech game for ’06
Just yesterday I was complaining to Chris that there hadn’t been any really good miniatures games that went with pre-painted figures but were non-collectible, or at least sold on the same a la carte basis as Warmachine and others. I would love to be playing more Warmachine, but I can’t
Feel the Twonky flowing through you
The Robo Rally Flash demo up at Avalon Hill looks on the surface exactly like the Flash demos for all their other games. Poke through it, though, and you eventually find a fine solitaire puzzle game called “Mini Rally Training Ground,” featuring five or six levels of compact boards, a
Race Day CSG: NASCAR connection is official
Which, sadly, probably precludes a lot of the interesting mix-and-match options we could have had if driver, car, and sponsor didn’t have to fit reality. I so wanted to swap out the Tide sponsorship for, say, Monsanto and get the special ability of spewing toxic chemical clouds onto the track.