This might be the best/worst usage of a stock photo I have ever seen. This is how I imagine this pitch went down: Game Publisher: So our game is an MMORPG that takes place in a fantastical land, not wholly unlike Dungeons and Dragons, and even on a similar scale! Ad Execs: How about a […]
Here’s a press release Blizzard issued in 1996, a few months before the first Diablo game hit store shelves. Looking at it now, you can see just how much the video game industry has changed. It’s quite depressing, actually.
Gotta love video game logic. If this were the real world, we would clearly do the opposite. But in gaming, DON’T GO THIS WAY usually means good loot, killer enemies, and an advancement of the narrative. But you do this in real life, it would not end as well. (imgur)
Retro gaming has had a resurgence in popularity. People are going up into lofts and digging out their Nintendos, Ataris and even PDP-11 minicomputers to return to the bygone era of computing. Like many people in the last few years, I went from being satisfied with modern smartphone recreations to collecting (too many) original machines, […]
Some awesome Imgur user put this together to show us sci fi geeks the differences in scale of some of the biggest “things” we have faced in science fiction, games and otherwise. Just kinda makes you say wow…. So THAT’S how it is, Mass Effect? Ah, there’s the Death Star. Was waiting for that! How […]
Yeah, okay. If only this was actually true. Better tell (insert random game publisher here because we do not want to get in trouble) that! Seems lately the industry has become more about meeting deadlines than releasing finished games. Editor’s note: This is a screenshot from a game named “Gave Dev Story.” (Imgur)
Remember when game packaging was just as exciting as the game itself? When you rip open a new game just to find some cool map or huge manual with a comic book drawn into it? Hell, just the map that came with the Jax and Daxter game was beautiful enough to frame and hang on a […]
One of the most common questions I get asked about having a weekly D&D group is how to start it in the first place. Unfortunately, there’s no easy answer to that. But what some people fail to see, I think, is that even when you have a group it doesn’t mean instant success. Once you’ve […]