Category: News, Views and Reviews

This month’s Humble Bundle is tasty. A bunch of Firaxis games. Pirates, Ace Patrol, Civ 3-5, Beyond Earth and the XCom Series for less then $16? Wow....

Like to highlight the comment of AxB, on the last article, how the best strategy for multiplayer games like Diplomacy is to be a comfortable second place, then when everyone focuses on the leader, then you “win by default”. I still...

Games don’t have to be big and have hundreds of pieces to be an interesting boardgame.. they have to have a good theme, offer a variety of decisions to make, and be fun to play. This is true, whether it’s big...

and then there is 1% on Heroic Archie pain. So close to getting my epic moose drop. Yes, that’s a foreign language. I speak Warcraft fluently.  ...

Vivendi has sold its remaining shares in Activision/Blizzard to an unknown buyer. The deal, ($1.1 Billion for 5.7% of the company) comes after seeing the stock grow 85% in the last year. Big move.. but it’s not the end of Vivendi in...

I roped one of my good friends, Josh into a monthly chat about news in the gaming world. I originally called it “This back and forth”, but that was horrible. I’m not sure his suggestion was better. Read on!...

Working on a couple longer stories for the next couple days, but here’s an interesting bit of information, as Amazon tries to get its claws deeper into the video game market. They announced today that Amazon Prime members ($99/yearly) would get...

Just saw this announced today. Origin is offering a service offering access to a dozen or so games for $4.99 a month. The selection is somewhat limited, but there are some interesting gems there. More after the jump....

So, when we last visited a Galaxy far far away, the console crash had killed the home market, and the arcade boom was slowly dying out. So where do we go from there? How about attaching themselves to the Nintendo boom and...

I think we’ve discussed my fandom, some would say addiction, to the Football Manager series. But I don’t think I ever quantified WHY I have that game open so much. Until now, at least....