CAST OF PART 2: Casey Gavin: Me Story, Setting and All Characters Who Are Not Casey: Aron Head. ********** Casey’s “night” wrapped up just a bit before three a.m. She had the bar cleaned up and her drawer cashed out. She and the wait staff all exited together, everyone heading their own ways. Casey stepped […]
This is the first installment in a weekly fiction series edited together from my vicarious adventures in play-by-email role-playing games. These stories are NOT CHILD-FRIENDLY. There is violence and adult subject matter and bad language. They’re not for the faint of heart or the easily offended or people who faint at the sight of literary […]
I used to be quite the gaming addict back in the day, and play-by-email role-playing games were my drug of choice. My fellow gamers and I wove many a dark and colorful tapestry of mystery, intrigue and adventure, matching our resourcefulness and creative writing skills against the all diabolical challenges the GM sent our way. […]
Deb’s writing for IoM now. This is good. I’ve known Deb in excess of ten years. She’s played in Star Trek RPGs I’ve run as well as my World of Darkness campaign. Not table tops, mind you. Rather my play-by-e-mail (PBeM) games. She is a gifted player, committing to the role as few do. She […]
So we’re gonna give something new a shot – a weekly run-down of the video game madness for the previous week that you need to know! Let us know in the comments what you think, any ideas you may have for future columns, or your thoughts on the posts! For our first VGM, after the […]
You know, everyone gives Hollywood a hard time about reboots, but videogames have kind of been doing for years. Many of the games we played and loved as kids have since been remade/rebooted into new franchises, with entirely new graphics, but trying to capture the essence of what made the original famous. Ninja Gaiden, Rygar, […]
Don’t know what to buy for the geek in your family? Tired of waiting in stupid Black Friday lines, just to find out what you wanted so badly was sold out anyway? Having a hard time trying to figure out how to spend all those gift cards you’re going to get? We’re here to help! […]
Man, that Borderlands game for Xbox 360 and Ps3 looks pretty spiffy, and even moreso because of the awesome TV commercial featuring that Cage The Elephant song (they’re awesome in concert, BTW). Still, I’m leery to purchase it just yet … of course, then I read something like the news at ShockTillYouDrop, and not buying […]
This one’s for Ghosr. I so woulda purchased this game. Thanks to Dread Central.
Friday night I joined six others on what I assume will be the first of Kicked in the Dicebags‘ round table discussions. Joining in the conversation with me: Podcast listener Apollyon Bill Coffin, recovering game developer for Palladium Mark Kinney from All Games Considered Fear the Boot’s Dan Repperger Chris Mais and Jonathan Landreth, hosts […]