I’ll be the first to tell you that Excel (well, spreadsheets in general. OpenOffice.org shoutout.) is one heck of a powerful tool. I use it all the time to help organize my thoughts and run calculations and simple simulations in my boardgame design endeavors. But this…this blows my mind. Via Boingboing: Cary Walkin, an accountant [...]

I love stuff like this, mostly because sometimes it inspires people just enough to take a crazy pipe-dream of an idea and run with it. (it worked on me once!) http://johanvinet.tumblr.com/post/23535804010/calvin-and-hobbes-what-the-16-bit-video-game   Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas (or Christmas-like holiday of your choosing) and Happy New Year!

First be amazed: Then, be amazed some more: Super Mario Clone World (Forum Post) The point where technology meets tenacity is always an incredible place to be. This is the kind of stuff I love seeing.

I’d like to share some awesome footage of the latest Convention we attended, from our friends at Geekssociated Press. It contains an awesome featurette of one of our newest games, RoboRiot!

Sure, some of them might just be unsubstantiated rumors but the vast majority of the content on Did You Know Gaming? is verifiable and just plain entertaining to read. This kind of thing is right up my alley, and surprisingly most of these things I did not know already. It seems that my studies have [...]

It may not have a fancy-looking site, but the International Arcade Museum is an amazing place on the internet. They have a growing database of arcade games, pinball machines, slots, music machines, vending machines and more. Gimmick machines and novelty devices from the past galore, most pages with photos. IAM also offers auction listings for [...]

Remember when most games consisted of only single screens for each level? Before scrolling to the right even became possible, much less (gasp) scrolling back to the left? A Super Mario Summary is something like that. This game is the entirety of the first Super Mario Bros., but each level is summarized, or “distilled” if [...]

An interesting announcement, indeed. It looks like Blizzard has teamed up with USAopoly to produce licensed versions of two of the most iconic and well-known boardgames of our culture, Monopoly, and Risk. I collect Monopoly sets and memorabilia, I have over 50 different sets. Of course, I will be compelled to add this to my [...]

I’m on a jury and it’s less than fun, so I’ll make a quick update to let you all know about the latest Humble Bundle deal. This time, it’s for Android devices, and you still get copies of all of the games for your Windows, Linux, or MAC platform also. Four games. A little over [...]

Short post today, but if anyone is interested in beta testing the upcoming Star Wars The Old Republic MMORPG, you can get your very own beta key, easy as pie! I got one within a couple of hours, so it’s tested and legit, and it looks like they have about 10,000 of them left. I’ve [...]