Bethesda have issued a major update on their game projects and franchises, confirming that they are deep in development on Elder Scrolls VI, in pre-production on Fallout 5 and are partnering with Obsidian Entertainment on a new Fallout game. They also confirm that remasters for both Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are in development.There's quite a lot packed into the update. They confirm that Fallout 4 (2015) has surpassed 35 million sales since a boost from the popularity of the TV series.…
CultureIt doesn't take much browsing of (non-5e) tabletop roleplaying hobby spaces online to see that much of the conversation on games is centred around rules, how to use them, the differences in rules between one game on another, System Matters, and so on. I think Elmcat speaks for many of us - particularly in regard to the frustration often felt when discussing the tabletop roleplaying hobby online - with the excellent post 'Cultures, not games'. I won't reiterate Elmcat's points, except to…
Prairiewolf - Zone PoemsHey hey, Prairiewolf’s latest/greatest LP is out NOW. Zone Poems! You can order it on vinyl or double CD, or stream it wherever. Very proud of this one, and very grateful that Jeremy and Stefan have taken me along on this four-years-and-counting ride. It’s been weird, surprising and fun — all the things a band should be! I’ve already talked about Zone Poems. Here’s what some other trusted heads have had to say: “Prairiewolf have taken a wild leap forward with this…
After some giving it a ton of thought over the last week, I am proud to say that SuperPod Saga is officially back! Due to some creative differences between me and the Super Ghost crew, I have decided to step away and allow them to work toward what they want to achieve and go back to doing SuperPod Saga on my own (with guests, of course). I greatly enjoyed my time with the Super Ghost crew, and I’m really going to miss them. I’m especially going to miss having Gerry as my co-host. But long story…
A sheet from my sticker book. My love for Kirby is incredibly shallow and 100% based on cuteness. I didn't play any of the games growing up so I don't know much about his lore. I didn't even know who his nemeses were until I met Daniel. I did have a brief stint playing some sort of Kirby game on my Nintendo 3DS, but I'm not big on platformers so I abandoned that pretty quickly. The only game where I swear absolutely loyalty to this loveable pink ball is Smash Bros. Ultimate. I will ALWAYS…
White Pointer Gaming is the Youtube channel that examines games and figures out how they pull off the graphical tricks they do, and we’ve linked them to those several times before because they almost always find some interesting tricks to explain, like when the Genesis/Mega Drive pulls off something which looks like scaling, which happens more often than you’d think. This video is a bit more general than that, describing the various kinds of extra chips included in SNES carts. (11 minutes) It…
The best installment of the Slavers series of modules. Originally Published March 16th, 2002 This review builds on my review of A1: Slave Pits of the Undercity. It’s probably a good idea to read that review, located here, before reading this one. The four modules in the A-series were written by four different creative teams. With A2: Secret of the Slavers Stockade Harold Johnson (along with Tom Moldvay) picked up where David Cook, who had written A1: Slave Pits of the Undercity left off.…
PC My cursor keys are weeping. They’ve taken such a hammering over the last week, as I’ve blasted my way through splendid little arcade game Kaz (from Kalinarm, the team that brought us the incredible Linkito). The deceptively simple-sounding concept of moving a character around a small field of tiles with your cursors (or WASD) to hit monsters and avoid traps unfurls into an incredibly tactical sprawl of dozens of characters, special moves, upgrades and even cursor-cast spells. The frenetic…
Twenty years have passed since the Prime Evils were defeated and banished from the world of Sanctuary. Now, you must return to where it all began – the town of Tristram – and investigate rumors of a fallen star, for this is the first sign of evil’s rebirth, and an omen that the End Times have begun. Let me start with a short story. Back in 2013, when I was still living in the UK, I discovered on the Xbox store a free demo for Diablo III. Playing the previous title quite a lot, I was curious how…
Read Heartwood by Amity Gaige ★★★★☆ Gripping search for a missing hiker on the Appalachian trail. Told from three points of view, the lost, the searcher and a seemingly disconnected elderly lady in a retirement complex. An enjoyable read.
2001 5000 Feet / Climax Platform: Sony PlayStation 2 Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes 3 was in development at 5000 Feet and Climax for the PlayStation 2, but was ultimately never released. Very little has surfaced from the project over the years, though footage from a prototype build was thankfully saved and re-uploaded before the original source disappeared. The available footage shows a main menu, a level where the player can explore a military base whilst battling Tan forces, and a very early boat…
Another nice preservation update to highlight today, this time thanks to the Atari community. John Hardie has recovered a previously unseen prototype of Mountain King for the Atari 8-bit computers from a disk that once belonged to a former Roklan employee. The prototype appears to be largely complete and seems to represent a build prepared before the game was handed over to K-Byte, who later acquired the publishing rights. Compared to the released cartridge, the prototype features a plain title…
Twenty different rulesets on one cart? Twenty? That’s about nineteen too many for one portable puzzle game, surely? Especially a landmark one in a series as well designed and long-revered as Puyo Puyo. Where’s the consistency? The sense of purpose? The balance? So I went into 20th Anniversary assuming it would be a directionless disaster, an awkward jumble of bits hastily nailed together for the sake of selling something that looked mostly new by a certain unmissable date. How nice it is to be…
Type Help is one of my favorite narrative deduction games - I've written about it here before - and I'm delighted that there's now a commercial version of the game available. Type Help is great as an all-text experience, and it's lovely that it's completely free. But it's also so impressive and so satisfying to play that I was kind of bummed, honestly, that its creator William Rous wasn't getting any money from it. It took me four hours! That's a complete game! Well, now you can pay money for…
The website that hosted this review is no longer online so I would like to keep it here. The below review was written when I was sighted. I am fully blind now. Side note, nearly 15 years later, this game seems like some serious fun now! I’d gladly go back and time and tell my younger year old self, hey, trust me, when AAA games get flooded with AI junk in the future, a game like this will be very welcome! Game details Version tested: Xbox 360 Also available on: PC Developer: Brain Slap Studio…
Hey folks! A little while back, I heard that my son's best friend was throwing a wizard-school themed birthday party. I thought to myself, "You know, that sounds like just the type of thing that a TTRPG would be a good addition to." Of course, I couldn't just use whatever system I had lying around, I wanted something fresh and unique, that really focused in on Wizard School. Thus was born Magus Academus. The goal: simulate a cohort of magical students attempting to survive studies, drama, and…
The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – Battling the Enemy Within. Ash and friends are looking for the Pyramid tower, that’s in the middle of a lot of ruins, when they fall down a hole and find a statue of Pikachu. Ash picks it up, against the advice of the others, and wouldn’t you know it, they’re suddenly being chased by a giant spherical rock. They are saved by Brandon and his Regirock. He’s there researching the story of Pokelantis, whose king tried to take over the world…
23:16 - Just did an inventory of all of my Kirby items for a photoshoot tomorrow. I thought I'd hold off on writing posts about my collections until I'm done with the main sticker page, but I'm really eager to see what an entire sticker sheet of Kirby would look like. This is fun!
I ordered three of Big Bad Workshop's Soldiers of Fortune figures when the preorders went up and while I reviewed the first two back in May (The Agent/ The Spy- Black Tuxedo and The Agent/ The Enemy- Light Blue), it's taken me a couple months to get to the third: The Saboteur! The cool thing about Soldiers of Fortune is that the figures are generic enough to fill various gaps in your 1/12th collection. I'm thrilled with how many great 1/12th scaled military themed lines we've been getting over…
The Orzhov Syndicate is a powerful, secretive oligarchy made up of immortality-hungry financiers, theocrats and gangsters, an uncomfortably familiar coalition to anyone living in the United States right now. I was going to start off with Orzhov NPCs, as I’ve done with the other guilds so far, but Orzhov doesn’t have NPCs specific to the […] The post Thrull and Indentured Spirit Tactics appeared first on The Monsters Know What They’re Doing.
The party continue to prepare for their upcoming mission, creating a clever disguise for Seren, and get a lead on a lead about the missing Rhodri's whereabouts. Episode 4, "Foul Garden: Trouble in the Onion Castle!" Session 19Cast Aurelia, she/her, Ex-Inventor Turned Spy Hemlocke, any, Loyal Servant Looking for Answers Mio, she/her, Headstrong Pugilist with a Heart of Gold Rhiannon the Blue, she/her, Academic Ghost Bride Looking for Answers Seren, she/her, Kindhearted Princess on the Run…
OBI-WAN KENOBI — JEDI KNIGHT STAR WARS: EPISODE I (HASBRO) “As the invasion of Naboo rages outside, Jedi apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi battles the evil Sith Lord, Darth Maul, in a fierce lightsaber duel. The outcome could change the galaxy forever!” It’s a bit like a game of ping-pong with the Star Wars: Episode I figures, right? Obi-Wan to Qui-Gon to Obi-Wan to Qui-Gon. And just like that, we’re back to Obi-Wan! Can you believe there’s another Obi-Wan? Well, probably, because you saw the title,…
Cal looks at the journey we've taken through the Omenpaths. Has it been worthwhile, or are we feeling the Magic equivalent of jet lag? The post Play the Game, See the World appeared first on Hipsters of the Coast.
Day 1. Let's do this!
Session 323 part 1 was played on 3/15/26Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob)Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh)Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse)Nick, Fighter 8 (Me)Koltic, Cleric 9 (Cindy)Aroon, Fighter 8 (NPC)Jameth, Fighter 8 (NPC)Lor’Koth, Dwarf 8 (NPC)The 10’ down (to the next level?) was not far physically, but the sense of dread that pervaded the hallway at the bottom of the ladder was heavy enough to crush a lesser party. The hallway continued before coming to a stair, leading to another hall, a room…
Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat™ Universe created by the Fire God Liu Kang. Mortal Kombat™ 1 ushers in a new era of the iconic franchise with a new fighting system, game modes, and fatalities! In case you didn’t know, at the end of the story mode in MK11, some things happen which lead up to the reboot of the universe. We get a lot of retcons and changes, and the style is fully realistic. While this looks nice from a technical point of view, it feels “corporate-approved” and pretty bad. Also the…
Pre-order the expanded, upgraded 10th anniversary edition of Buck Buck Moose, my best-selling venison cookbook. We've changed a lot in a decade! The New Buck Buck Moose is Here is the latest post on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.
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On the Beauty of RPGsTo do real damage with an explosion, direct the blast. Or so I’ve been told. My father was reading The Anarchist’s Cookbook at one time, and that’s the kind of wisdom that a father passes on to his son. If true — and it sounds reasonable — it means that as impressive and dangerous as an uncontrolled explosion can be, the effect is diffused. Sound and fury, all that.Which is why I say, to play is to explode. And a game is an explosive. We play all of the time. It is a…
CHOPPER (C1-10P in Mining Facility Disguise) Star Wars Droid Depot Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney Number: n/a Includes: Collector card, RX-01 torso Action Feature: Pulls apart, jointed arms, opening front repair arm Retail: $19.99 Availability: April 2026 Appearances: n/a Bio: All different types of droids populate the Star Wars galaxy. Each droid is different and has their own unique personality and colors. This droid can be found aboard freighter 2716 in Faos station. Join Chopper on his…
