Naughty and Dice: An Adult Gamer’s Guide to Sexual Situations
Your organism is important to me
As Mr. Ernest mentioned in our interview, Cheapass is a third computer game from the Digital Eel folks. What we didn’t know is that the demo’s available now, which I noticed over at Slashdot. Anyway, Dr. Blob’s Organism is like a cross between Tempest and those Life screensavers that look
Drop the little blockies and make ’em go down
When something reminds me of Icehouse, I post it: Triptych is a puzzle game for Windows, Mac, and Linux in which you drop groups of three colored blocks, and when three of the same color touch each other they disappear. The trick is that this happens with real physics –
Cosmic Encounter is online for reals this time
Hey, did you know that Cosmic Encounter Online has relaunched, with a much snazzier tool for online play, a much busier pool of players, and a wider selection of alien powers? Of course you didn’t! The new Flash-based engine supports new aliens like “The Dork,” whose “power to annoy” causes
OgreCave Interview: James Ernest
Though a bit laid up with the latest tropical disease, I can still manage to post a new interview. This time we’ve put a few questions to James Ernest, founder and President of , and prolific game designer. Which of his numerous game designs gave him the most trouble? Read
FFG gets WarCraft board game license
Well, WotC sure as hell wasn’t doing anything good with it: Fantasy Flight Games will be doing a WarCraft board game for this Christmas, the design of which will “make time itself a resource.” That’s not the way I’d handle the problem of translating RTS gameplay to a board game
Free Adventure Posted for M&M
To start your superheroics off right this week, Green Ronin has decided to provide a free Mutants & Masterminds adventure. Steve Kenson’s “The Heist” introduces new characters to the world of crime fighting while saving the GM some work. The 6.4 MB PDF can be downloaded from this part of
That Averages to About Five Cents Each
Philip Reed has done it again: released a damn useful PDF for d20 gamers. This time, it’s 101 Divine Spell Components, a 33-page resource of all the nifty spellcasting ingredients GMs normally have to improvise, for a mere $4.95. This follows the example set by Phil’s earlier PDF product, 101
Crocodile Crawling to GenCon Indy
Crocodile Games, the company behind those excellent WarGods of Aegyptus miniatures, has announced their plans for GenCon Indy. There are sure to be previews of Crocodile’s upcoming WarGods of Olympus, as well as a party on Saturday night (I picture a really drunk guy screaming “Minis! WOOOOO!!”), matched only by
WizKids drastically cuts tournaments, prizes
The spittle is already flying over WizKids’ just-announced changes to its organized play program. The “storyline” marquee tournaments will be less frequent, and the LE figures will generally be a little more L, if you know what I mean. Predictably, nobody on the Internet appears to be happy with this.
Fighting Fantasy Official Site Open for Business
FightingFantasyGamebooks.com, the new official site for the Wizard Books reissues of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, is up and running. It should be a continuing source of news, contests, downloads and more; there’s also a club you can join that will get you some free goodies. Check it out!
Pinnacle Site Gets Facelift
Pinnacle’s got a new look & feel for its website this morning. PEG is giving away a free Lost Colony Showdown starter and booster to every online order of $50 or more, so take on those grapes and claim the land for your own… or at least figure out what
Atlas Flips to Old Maps of Africa
In other Atlas news, the company’s very first African-themed roleplaying sourcebook, South of the Sun, is available once more. The Ars Magica supplement was first published in 1991, long before the Nyambe expedition, and centered on the mythical kingdom of Prester John and its surroundings. From dream-sorcerers and demon-haunted hills
Dungeoneer May Move to Atlas
We’ve received an anonymous tip that Dungeoneer will be printed by Atlas Games shortly. Apparently, the rights to the game were signed over to Thomas Denmark, the artist and lead designer, and now Atlas will be “bringing it to the people” (a second printing, I’d imagine). This is good news,
More Citizen Debacle Details
After the story we posted this morning, we’ve received this from Mike Eckert of Citizen Games regarding the company’s recent restructuring and hacked website: Michael J. Eckert, former President of Citizen Games, is not the “former” President in question. Mr. Eckert left the company in early February. This was, indeed,