H. P. Lovecraft

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | Console, Minis, RPG, Uncategorized, Video, games, geekdom | Comments Off

It’s Thursday link day!!!

The Onion AV Club have done another ‘Gateway to Geekery’, this time focusing on H.P. Lovecraft.
Critical Hits have written a pretty good piece on how to get most (and longest) bang for your buck with Game Workshop minis games.
Apparently dreaming about games makes you better at them. Does that mean that if you dream about sex you get better at that too? (via Felicia Day‘s twitter.)
Joss Whedon is bidding for the Terminator rights. Sort of. Background is here. (Via the A.V. Club)
EuroGamer has a big, informative and pretty balanced article on the campaigns in Germany to ban violent video games.

Friday, October 30th, 2009 | Board, Nick, PC, RPG, blogging, games, geekdom | 2 Comments

I’m going to try to do the links on Thursdays from now on. I’ve got some niiiice ones today!

Holy crap – Planescape: Torment is getting a re-release! Best CRPG EVER. This will work properly on Vista and Windows 7 apparently so it will work nicely for the new PC… (thanks to the Wertzone – no idea how I missed this on my RPS feed)
Boing Boing has a piece on using Google Wave as a chat channel for RPGs. I guess, but it won’t replace the table top for me.
Boardgame News has a great article running down card games and boardgames that have been released using the whole Cthulhu/Lovecraft mythos – great, good, average and bad. I really want to play some Arkham Horror.
And finally, here’s a report about the Essen Game Fair by a guy from local shop Paradigm Infinitum.

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