Dungeon & Dice

Last week's rough launch of Diablo III neatly illustrated the biggest problem with the game's 'always-on' internet…

Oh give us a break, it was the first time any of us got to cover the launch of a Diablo game. And hey, we did manage…

At the end of part one of this essay on analog games, I said I'd talk about specific examples of board games to show…

When you hear the term 'gamer' these days it's safe to assume that it refers to a person that regularly plays video…

In 1988, Milton Bradley released a Legend of Zelda board game. Awesomely, it wasn't a lazy conversion of an existing…

In the nearly 40 years since the release of the original edition of the Dungeons & Dragons pen-and-paper…

What do you mean we're not taking the occupy protests seriously enough? Some folks have even interrupted their…

A gambling man once bet me a hundred dollars he could think of something I couldn't convincingly pretend to dislike…

A common complaint levelled against big publishers like Activision and Electronic Arts is that they milk their…

Where would we be if there were no roles to play, no experience points to earn, and no levels to gain? Well we…