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'Kingdoms Of Amalur' Developer 38 Studios Faces Financial Reckoning As First MMO Trailer Is Released

Sat, 19 May 2012 13:23:34 -0700
38 Studios is struggling with its finances, but why the fledgling developer failed to make its loan payments on time remains a mystery.
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Freedom Force: Superhero role-playing done right

Fri, 11 May 2012 16:31:36 -0700
Filed under: Features , PC , Retro , RPGs This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. The Avengers ' huge success in its first week of release may represent the pinnacle of the superhero takeover of mainstream culture. Superhero comics have long been ...
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Tabletop Forge Team Discuss Google+ Hangouts Project

Fri, 04 May 2012 07:05:23 -0700
I’m not as involved as I used to be, but I was a big fan of tabletop roleplaying games during my college years. I especially loved playing Call of Cthulhu. Eventually, friends left and we just sort of stopped playing. …
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Google+ Games Need To Take Advantage Of The Platform’s Strengths

Fri, 18 May 2012 14:54:01 -0700
I’d rather talk about playing Diablo III, but since I’m working on a poky-band smartphone connection that makes playing much of anything online a lurching debacle, let’s talk about Diablo III‘s always-on requirement, or digital rights management, or hacker-repellent — or just “Blizzard’s albatross,” as I’m sure some of you would rather it be called. [...]
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Prismatic Art Collection Diversifies Fantasy Art

Wed, 09 May 2012 02:04:00 -0700
Those storied illustrations plastered on generations of Dungeon Master’s Guides and Monster Manuals and psychedelic microbuses may have a special place in geeks’ hearts, but you have to admit: fantasy art has some pretty well-worn tropes.
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Diablo III and Always-On DRM: Bad for Us and Here to Stay?

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:08:59 -0700
I’d rather talk about playing Diablo III, but since I’m working on a poky-band smartphone connection that makes playing much of anything online a lurching debacle, let’s talk about Diablo III‘s always-on requirement, or digital rights management, or hacker-repellent — or just “Blizzard’s albatross,” as I’m sure some of you would rather it be called. [...]
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