Magic Online – Eventide Release and a Brief Look at Economics
Magic Online 3.0 went live a while back and shortly after that I slowed down my drafting and then a bit after that more or less quit Magic altogether. Not “for good” but I had a number of problems with...
View ArticleMagic Evolves in a Struggle to Remain Relevant, Part 2: A Brief look at the...
Continuing from Part 1: Magic’s Evolution, here I’ll briefly examine the business side of gaming that these changes to Magic: the Gathering expose. On the whole, the changes probably aren’t that bad...
View ArticleCthulutech – Wacky New Offering from Catalyst
Heading over to the Shadowrun site to try and figure out why my pulped tree version of the Runner’s Companion wasn’t in yet I discovered Catalyst’s newest product with an apparent street date of...
View ArticlePraise for Battleshop
I mentioned in my last post that I had not yet received my pulped tree format of the Shadowrun Companion. I sent a message to Battleshop and only a few hours later received a message informing me that...
View ArticleBlurring the Lines – Gamer Games vs… That Other Kind
I find it interesting that games these days don’t seem to fit as snugly into the gamer or non-gamer types. For a while now you could find Magic: The Gathering at stores that didn’t carry games of the...
View ArticleCatalyst Games and Wizkids Properties
This isn’t exactly news at this point (it was posted a week ago) but I thought I should direct your attention to it anyway. One week ago Catalyst Game Labs announced that it has made an offer to The...
View ArticleCard Games Cometh
I have several new games I am planning to talk about and review soon and it came to my attention as I was driving to work today that quite a number of them are card games. After making this realization...
View ArticleSmart Ass – Game Review – A Trivia Party Game
No, this is not a cheeky game review but rather a review of a game called Smart Ass. Overview Smart Ass is a rather simple but interesting Trivia Game from University Games, a nifty little company that...
View ArticleA Few Things I’m Looking Forward to in 2009
There are several more games I need to review and I also would like to write a bit more about reviewing and perhaps change the way I write reviews but it occurred to me that there are a number of game...
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