Arc The Lad: Twilight of the Spirits Released: June 25, 2003 Cattle Call Pretty rad box art, right? That’s what I was thinking when I bought this game at a pawn shop for some 6 or 7 years ago. In truth, I seriously had no idea what the game was about, let alone that it [...]
There is a pretty sizable amount of music that geeks enjoy; from chiptunes to video game OSTs, today’s musically inclined geek has a pretty diverse range of songs to keep him or her satisfied. However, until recently, there hasn’t really been any music made specifically for us. This changed at the turn of the millennium [...]
My friends and I were having dinner the other night when the topic of sports fans came up. The argument made was that generally people that are fans of sports are not the most intelligent. While a good point was made on the unintelligence of mob-mentality taking over, all fans are not one in [...]
Source: darkhorse.com “The classic-era Star Wars adventures conclude in this fifth and final volume of Star Wars Omnibus: A Long Time Ago. . . .All your favorite characters are here-Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewie, the droids, and more! With nearly six hundred pages of material, this massive omnibus collects Marvel Comics’ Star Wars #86-#107, their final US-published issues!” Dark [...]
Future Tactics: The Uprising Released: May 10, 2004 Zed Two Now here’s one I can almost guarantee that you’ve never played. As a former employee at a large nationwide video game retailer, I literally could not give this game away, even at the more than reasonable price of 99 cents. Future Tactics: The Uprising [...]
It’s a board game, a deck building game, and a dice game. It’s the Swiss army knife of games. And it is awesome. Quarriors is a 2-4 player dice pool building game published by WizKids, that is pretty quick to play at around 30 minutes or so. For the full break down you can check [...]
Anime, manga, robots, electronics, billboards, temples, shrines, glitz, glamour, lights, action, bushido, samurai, ninja, zen! All these words describe a particular land, a particular people, a particular culture. It’s a place which many like-minded individuals often dream of visiting. To many, it is a paradise of sorts. It harbors all that we, as geeks, [...]
I’ve always been a bit skeptical of modules. The only exclusion to this being the Tomb of Horrors, because let’s be honest, IT’S THE MOTHERLOVIN’ TOMB OF HORRORS PEOPLE! But I digress. I’m not a pre-made DM\GM sort. Part of what I’ve always found appealing is the creative design process of developing a fantastic [...]
Those brilliant chaps over at Mashable make nice things and have a pretty good eye for design. They released this Infographic about the how the movie industry has consistently tried to control media outlets over time and cried “end of the world” over and over in the last century or so. It was partially a response [...]
(Extra Life will be a weekly column highlighting a game that you may have missed when it was first released, and deserves a second chance at being played.) Blade Runner (PC) Released: November 21, 1997 Westwood Studios Why you probably missed it: Blade Runner kind of got lost in [...]
