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Video Games and The People Who Love Them

Happy Dave — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:00:12 -0800

A Life Well Wasted is a new podcast about video games and the people who love them, created by freelance writer Robert Ashley. Tightly edited and fascinating, it's been described in comment threads as NPR for gamers and something you wouldn't be surprised to hear on BBC Radio 4. Ashley talks about his project on last week's Gamers with Jobs Conference Call.

MrVisible — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:46:13 -0800

Want to play a swashbuckling pirate, space opera hero, or monster-fighting Victorian dandy? How about a supervillain fighting against alien invaders? Or a mutant snack cake? Welcome to Savage Worlds. Do you just want to have fun with a role-playing game without having to spend your life savings on books that make your college calculus textbook look like as much fun as Rocky and Bullwinkle? All the rules you need to play fit into a small, cheap book. There are a bunch of supplemental sourcebooks, but there's also tons of fan-created content. The system has an active community, with enormous amounts of resources available for players and GMs. Want to give it a shot for free? Try the Test Drive rules(PDF) and a scenario (20MB download) or two. And on March 9th, for all those of you who grew up wanting to be John Carter (or just dress like him), Savage Mars gets released. Role-playing the way it was meant to be: fun. _{_{Yes, I know, I'm a geek.}}

eurasian — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:10:26 -0800

A tour with WotC, a session to play D&D with them. Lifetime subscription to Steam. Ok, some items are better than others. But for Child's Play, the folks at PA are pulling one heckuva dream auction for geeks. More auction items are detailed, go to the the second news post.

Karmakaze — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:49:13 -0800