I love maps. It could be because I love history and it could be because I have no sense of direction. Strange Maps proves to be the perfect place for someone like me to lose himself for sixty minutes when I should be doing something else. Despite the name, not all the maps are really […]
Entries Tagged as 'Blogs'
I Hate Gamers: Part XX
June 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blogs, Gamers
MTV’s Steven Totilo has been posting a series of short bits about how game reviewers do their job. So it’s only natural that he would jump into the ongoing drama about Konami’s list of things that they did not want reviewers to talk about. EGM apparently decided not to give the game a score at […]
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A Love Letter to a Dying Form
June 1st, 2008 · 16 Comments · Blogs, Wargames
If you don’t read Soren Johnson’s blog, you should. Today he writes a love letter to wargaming, and neatly segues into a promo piece for Hexwar. But this was the paragraph that got me: It’s hard to say what effect wargames had on me. The ratio of time spent reading rules/collecting games compared with time […]
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Chris Farrell Returns
May 20th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Blogs, Board Games
Chris Farrell is one of the best commentators on board and wargames, so when he wrapped up his blog in late 2006, my weekly trawl through the internet was a little empty. Well, he’s back with a new blog full of old content and a couple of new posts. I don’t write a lot about […]
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The Road to Indie Success
May 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Blogs, Indie Games, Media
N’Gai Croal has loaned one of the most important chairs in games journalism to Bill Harris (from Dubious Quality) for a two part interview with Vic Davis, the man behind Armageddon Empires, one of my favorite games of 2007. Part One is here. Part Two is here. Harris and Davis use site views and sales […]
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Funny or Stupid? You Decide
April 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Blogs, Media
I’m assuming that this insane story about advertisements stuck on the front covers of magazines is a parody of people saying that print media has sold out or that it’s on its last legs or something. Because I can’t believe Tim Rogers has never seen this before. I’ve been complaining about fake covers for years.
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