Ah, trolls.  They brood under bridges and over 4chan, and now they’ve found another home in pseudo-monarchical France, the setting of Stolen Songbird. Cecile, a budding chanteuse, knows nothing of trolls as she prepares to leave her farm for the big city, to join her mother as a singer for the National Opera.  But her …

I’ve been a stalwart champion of indie games and the platform genre for some time now. So it should come as no surprise that when Moon Studios* unveiled Ori and the Blind Forest at E3 in 2014 I was full steam ahead on the hype train. From production stills to the slow leak of gameplay …

Earlier this week I was able to sit down with Star Realms co-creator Rob Dougherty to discuss his new game and the recent recognition it has received.  That interview gave me the opportunity to correct what I now realize was a grievous error on my part: I hadn’t played Star Realms yet. (Full disclosure: for this …

A trusted source has revealed to us the titles of Episodes 5-7 from the upcoming Season 5 of Game of Thrones and they are as follows: Episode 5: Kill the Boy Episode 6: Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken Episode 7: The Gift  

UGH FINE.  There’s more Sailor Moon, and I’m inexplicably drawn to it, so prepare yourselves for the next arc, the Dark Moon saga (in the original, Sailor Moon R). When last we left our dubious heroes, a tiny pink-haired girl was pointing a gun at Usagi’s head and demanding the Silver Crystal.  We resume at …

Sony has some major discounts running from now until March 23rd at 11am Pacific. Over 70 games, everything from P4 games to PS1 classics, are under $1. It doesn’t get much better than that. Not sure what to get? Here are some recommendations: Mega Man X4: Possibly the most anime of all Mega Man games …

This is part two in a series about building a custom arcade cabinet. Read part one here. I am not an expert carpenter. I’m not even an amateur. I’m not an engineer or an artist and I don’t know how to use AutoCAD. When it comes to building a custom arcade cabinet, designing one myself …

Welcome back to Magic Gatherings!  We’re trying something a little different this week. As you may have heard (because I have been mentioning preview cards for the last two weeks), Dragons of Tarkir is on the way, and this weekend stores around the world will be hosting prerelease tournaments to give players a new chance …

Last weekend, South by Southwest (SXSW) Gaming announced the recipients of the second annual SXSW Gaming Awards.  Star Realms, a new deckbuilding game designed by former Magic pros Rob Dougherty and Darwin Kastle, won the Table Top Game of the Year award, a new category for this year.  The game was nominated by fans, selected …

If you know anything about Tim Lanning it is that Tim Lanning loves Guan Yu. He is a strong and honorable warrior who just so happens to be in the best video game series of all time, Dynasty Warriors. So you can only imagine what happened when I saw the legend himself walking around the PAX East 2015 …