Well, it happened. I fell off the wagon, thanks to my wife and her coworkers dragging me back kicking and screaming I’m back on World of Warcraft. The last time I played was in 2010 before we had our son Ethan. He’s almost 3 now and for some reason we thought it would be a [...]

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 [...]

 StarCraft II, the Heart of the Swarm Expansion set was announced some time ago, but now finally has a concrete release date of March 12, 2013. Which is all fine and dandy because I am looking forward to this game very much and I will definitely play it… But will I buy the Collector’s edition [...]

 Long-time readers will know that I have spoken well of Borderlands the first. Twice, in fact. And looking back, it makes me wonder why I hesitated to try the sequel. In hindsight, after I wrote those review and kept playing Borderlands 1, and kept playing it like crazy, I discovered some of the weaker points [...]

If you have ever wanted to know how to papercraft a few walls of your house into a Minecraft Mine…scape…thing (and who HASN’T? Am I right??) This is how you do it!   http://www.laboratory424.com/build/minecraft Isn’t it beautiful? (The lava room is for time-out, kids…)

I don’t know why I completely failed to mention the first game, because it was absolutely amazing in every way, but Orcs Must Die! 2 is even better. If I had to classify what kind of game OMD is, it would be best described as a “Tower Defense” game, but that would still be something [...]

So… Diablo 3. I’ve been putting this off for a while, mostly to wait until the early post-release chaos died down and to see what was actually going to be resolved with patch 1.03 and I feel now that I have played the game enough to really put together a well-rounded review and not just [...]

There has been so much going on and I haven’t been able to write about it all, so here we go, shotgun-style! Phoenix Comicon was this previous weekend and it’s been exhausting but a lot of fun. Got a chance to speak to Wil Wheaton ever so briefly about TableTop, so we’ll see if anything [...]

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 [...]

Does everyone remember how amazing the Super Mario Crossover was? Well it’s back. It’s improved. And it’s ready to slap you in the face and call you Nancy (or something equally offensive or cliche.) It’s bloody genius. This time we’ve got 10 Nintendo characters, most of them with a counterpart of some kind playing through Mario’s [...]