There was a divide in role-playing between people who treated it as a small-scale, modular wargame and people who treated it as a way to tell stories interactively. (You could argue for a third type of player, who treated the games as a way to enact […]

Mercury Prize Shortlist day is always a time of much pontificating over the state of the musical nation, the uselessness of prizes, the evils of marketing, the injustice done to [yr favourite here]. It’s also a marvellous opportunity for some […]

The latest issue of 2000AD – Prog 1496 – is something of a milestone. The comic rumbles on as per usual, marking time before another landmark prog (and to be fair, 1500 issues is pretty amazing for a British comic in the current market) w[…]

KARMAH – “Every Breath You Take Just Be Good To Me” – ‘mash-up’ plus mind-boggling Turbo B style rapping. A mention, not a recommendation.[…]

One of the heartening things about going through old posts – for the mundane purposes of code fiddling – is seeing how after only a week or so most of them have a handful of new-format hits. (more…)[…]

The open competition of “how rub does your story have to be to get on BBC News” has a new contender as a top cryptozoologist (just check his credentials!) is despatched to the Gambia to track down a dragon. ‘Everyone who sees it di[…]

Ages ago on the lamented MP3 blog POPNOSE I wrote about how soca’s greatness lay – partly – in how omnivorous it is, subject-wise. Like the calypso it sprang from, anything from arthritis to trade policies makes fine raw material fo[…]

D&D nowadays is publically remembered as a cartoon, or a fad. A core of gamers still play it, of course, but the RPG hobby as a whole is a cultish and diminished thing. And yet – unless I’m missing out some really obvious antecedent*[…]

FC HONKA: Newly-promoted, second in the Finnish league, named after the noise a goose makes.[…]

Remember when NYLPM used to list its Top 10 Pop Songs on the sidebar? Well, if you look down and to your right, under the ‘recent comments’ section, you’ll see that feature’s replacement, the FT Index: a rolling list, updata[…]