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Setting Boundaries – The Roots Of Gaming From Primal Play to MMORPGs
Managing to combine these two factors in a  fine balance provides the greatest gaming experiences and those which will be remembered and loved for a long time.  This integration of rules can be seen in children and animals play The animals introduction being far more brutal with them often becoming a life and death struggle for[...]
The Nerdy Show Celebrates RPG Month – Featuring Chamber Band, D&D, Munchkins And More
Bleeding Cool welcomes The Nerdy Show to talk about RPG gaming: They say: [audio:http://nerdyshow.com/podcast/pods/nerdyshow168.mp3] It's RPG Month!  That means we've got a slew of programming focused on the craft of tabletop roleplaying and the people it's inspired. In this episode we're joined by Chamber Band a folk rock outfit whose tales of heartbreak and dire deeds are all set[...]
Looking Backwards – Compatibility And The Problems Of Retro Gaming
By Jared Cornelius With two new consoles having been born over the last holiday, I thought I'd take time to talk about some-thing near and dear to my heart in looking back at retro games.  The brand spanking new Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are missing a key feature.  A feature publishers don't care about, and[...]
Marvel Puzzle Quest: A Series of Puzzling Choices
By Jared Cornelius By all accounts Marvel Puzzle Quest should be the Reece's Peanut butter Cup of gaming for me.  A tactical grid based matching game that takes elements of Bejeweled or Candy Crush Saga, and mixes it with Marvel Comic characters sounds like everything I would've wanted in a video game.  Sadly, that is not[...]
It's Flooping Time! Adventure Time Card Wars Is Coming
By Trent Pitts Many perfectly good sodas are soon to be ruined by the addition of coffee grounds, beetle butter, and Ham Chunk Juice as "Dweeb" cups are prepared across the land. Cryptozoic Games has announced their upcoming release of Adventure Time Card Wars Game, the game Finn and Jake play in the "Card Wars" episode with[...]