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Hobo-Ken!

Congratulations, sir, you win at Photoshop.

This is surely the best thing to happen to the “Land of the Tobacco Pipe,” in roughly 165 years, when the first organized game of baseball was played at Elysian Fields. And, by virtue of this post, you now know everything you will ever need to know about Hoboken, NJ. You’re welcome.

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Troll is Rather Close…

Thank bejesus I have no plans on buying a PS3. Though taking nature photographs of RPG fiends frolicking with trolls does seem like a pleasant way to spend Valentine’s Day. Surely Sony could have found some way to augment this lamely 2D experience into a more Avatar-ish 3D?

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First-Person Tetris

I might even call this self-actualization Tetris. In this game, you’re not the removed architect and organizer of pieces, you’re the pieces themselves. Heavy, right? Building blocks of the world, unite!

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Spare Us, O Fickle Tetris Gods!

And did the Lord Tetrises demand repeatedly squggly pieces. And did the players lament, and scorn, and pine, and forgo succor, and they didst then smash the control pad.

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What is The Third Sign?

It’s a puzzling question, especially if you’re one of the thousands who attended Gen Con 2009, the premier gaming and geek convention in the world…as you’ll see in this video. But the answer is out there: check this out for the scoop.

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Procrastination (or Death By Dragon Age)

Procrastination is many things. One hypothetical type of procrastination is eagerly awaiting the arrival of new release Dragon Age: Origins. And, the day Dragon Age: Origins arrives, you install Dragon Age: Origins, and attack the opening campaign as if your disk drive will start manifesting $100 bills upon its completion.

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Human vs Klingon Propaganda

Ever wonder which facism-craving warlike race has the better video propaganda?

This Klingon propaganda reel comes to us via the Star Trek devotees at Bad Monkey Studios. Somehow they had the wherewithal to record the entire thing in an authentic Worf-ian dialect.

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‘Avatar’ Designed to Hack Gamers’ Minds

Today, James Cameron and Co. released a full-length trailer for the upcoming Cosmically Anticipated Uber-Blockbuster known as Avatar

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Legolas Never Slayed a Dragon…

And you feel somehow shortchanged. Well, thanks to BioWare’s upcoming release, Dragon Age, you can finally satiate your desire for RPG dragon slaying in state of the art CGI. And you thought you still had some free weekends left in 2009…

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Disgruntled German LARPer

This fellow claims to be a member of the “LARPen Braunschweig,” an elite core of German LARPers dedicated to upholding the code of chivalry amongst Live Action Roleplayers (AKA foam sword fighters) from those American “Olive Garden” LARPers, who live in far too much affluence to ever effectively channel the spirit of an ancient sack-donning viking berserker.

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