Novelist Thomas Wolfe famously wrote that “you can’t go home again.” With apologies to Mr. Wolfe, you can indeed go home…to a dungeon. Or rather, dungeons. Wizards of the Coast recently saw the sense in making available all or most of the editions of the Dungeons & Dragons game, from the earliest “zero” edition in [...]
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Cubicle 7 is one of my very favorite producers and distributors of role-playing games. The small studio has consistently produced incredibly elegant and engaging games, and with licenses for properties like Primeval, Doctor Who and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth (The One Ring) they’ve become a rare success story in a marketplace increasingly dominated by video games. Where many publishers of traditional tabletop RPGs have struggled for survival (and relevance), in the digital age, Cubicle 7 seems to have found a niche all its own.
Sega just revealed a new video promoting “Survivor”, another game mode for the hotly anticipated Aliens: Colonial Marines. Survivor mode pits five marines against what pretty much looks like an entire alien hive in an all-out battle for survival. While survival modes are old hat for first person shooter games, what is interesting about the trailer is the appearance of what looks like new alien subspecies. There’s one that runs up and rips its face open in order to shower the marines with acid. Another has what appears to be glowing ventricles on its head. I also saw what looks to be a giant alien. It could be indicative of the kinds of things that we’ll see in the campaign. If so, I’m intrigued. While I can be a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to movie monsters, even I recognize the potential boredom of fighting just one kind of alien through an entire game. My hope is up that A:CM will be worth buying, but it’s still too early to tell.
The board game Dungeon! has a long history, having been first introduced in 1975 – the year following the publication of Dungeons & Dragons, the role-playing game from which it draws its creative DNA. This simple but fun game of heroes, monsters and treasure went through several editions, the last of which hit shelves in 1992. Now, with a new edition of D&D expected on shelves within the next two or three years, Wizards of the Coast has reintroduced the game for a new generation.
Last week I bought the critically reviled first-person shooter Medal of Honor: Warfighter, and once again, I find myself on the opposite aisle from the video game journos. It’s starting to become a trend. I loved Homefront, for example, but it too was run through the wringer and died a miserable death at the bottom [...]
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Agent 47 is back after being MIA for more than 6 years. Click Read More and find out where he’s been in the first 50 pages of HITMAN: DAMNATION.
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Alternate histories, kickass lady-assassins, spies and international espionage all flavor the excerpt this week. Click read more and meet Alix Nico in the first 50 Pages of BLADES OF WINTER.
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Behold! A gameplay trailer has emerged for the hotly anticipated video game Star Wars: 1313. Looks like there’s a lot of choke-slamming, explodey, shooty fun to be had here. And a complete prison city in perpetual darkness beneath Coruscant? Pack my bags and load my blaster: I’m ready to go!
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