Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Two weekends ago, Magic: the Gathering’s Pro Tour, the seasonal capstone of its organized-play system, kicked off in Madrid. The decks were creative and diverse, the matches were strategically interesting, and the new cards were sweet—at least to people that already really, really like Magic cards. When the climactic last round before the playoffs went…
Image: Playdek Of all the modern board games that constitute the current golden age of tabletop gaming—your Settlers of Catans, your Ticket to Rides, your Pandemics—one looms larger than all the others, like a mythical icon made of dice and cardboard. That game is Twilight Struggle, a behemoth of a board game famous for…
I am a gamer. I followed the call of Cthulhu and ran in the shadows with hackers and shamans. I traversed the ancient lands of Greyhawk, Faerun, and Eberron with companions new and old. I swung from an airship and buckled swash over London for the Kerberos Club. I threw dice and flipped cards and…
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Creative forces now in charge of venerated role-playing franchise beginning to chart new course. White Wolf Publishing has provided new information on the future of World of Darkness. Speaking in a presentation and a Q&A session at Tenebrae Noctis, a World of Darkness fan event held last weekend in Germany, CEO Tobias Sjogren and Lead…
By Jaya Saxena on May 31st, 2015 Cards Against Humanity, before it became go-to entertainment for a generation raised on the Internet and saddled with a backward idea of political correctness, began as a crowdsourced, printable game created by a group of old high school friends. A 2011 Kickstarter campaign produced the actual cards. In…
Politics are all about antics, from blowhard rhetoric to orchestrated photo ops and theatrical debates. The Contender—a new game from the Oakland branding and design studio Guts & Glory, John Teasdale, and Justin Young—capitalizes on the latter. Think of it as Cards Against Humanity meets the campaign trail, with a didactic angle. The game is…
Updated Oct. 20, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET This week, game players and enthusiasts from 40 countries will descend upon Las Vegas to compete in the Monopoly World Championship, held roughly every four years. The winner of the Hasbro Inc. HAS 0.48 % -sponsored tournament will take home $20,580 — the precise sum stashed in the…
How roleplaying games and fantasy fiction confounded the FBI, confronted the law, and led to a more open web On January 17, 1980, FBI agents descended on a small business in Wisconsin to investigate a plot against the life of an American business executive in Beirut, Lebanon, named William Weatherby. The tip came to local…
Klaus Teuber’s hit board game The Settlers of Catan is being adapted for film and television, according to an announcement from producer Gail Katz, who has locked down international rights to the property. Katz has served as producer or executive producer on a number of films and television series, including Air Force One, The Perfect…