Among the various ground-breaking concepts mooted in the latest nerve-tingling installment of Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop was the suggestion that there might have been a ‘Bolshevik Monopoly’, so households of a socialist persua[…]

From Marketing magazine (the source of 75% of my posts) comes news that Hasbro are doing some aggressive promotion of Monopoly. We can expect, in increasing order of futility: (more…)[…]

At 1UP.com. But basically I’m just linking this cos of the picture they use at the bottom of the article, ripped off here for posterity. I mean! Wii! Owls! Internets meme! What’s not to like?[…]

A big selling-point of tabletop RPGs – possibly a legacy of the era they appeared in, the liberal 1970s – was their non-competitive, open-ended aspect. Individual players wouldn’t “win” games, the group would only achiev[…]

After playing Dungeons and Dragons and other games for a couple of years, I found myself firmly on the ‘storytelling’ side, not the ‘point-scoring’ side, of the gaming divide. I also had precious few people to play with and &#[…]

Yes, it’s the Nintendo Piss-station! I will be wanting a wee soon, you’ll be wee-ing all day etc. Now I’m slightly more scatalogically inclined than many, but I think I only took about one (1) day to hear through the sound of the na[…]

So, ever since I simultaneously discovered the existence AND non-availability through play-asia of the cuddly Nintendog PUG (it is a pug Duggan!!), I have wept and gnashed teeth that there hasn’t been a cuddly Nintendog successor. But now HOORA[…]

Hello man on the tube who asked me if I had a DS! I am the girl you spoke to on the train this morning! Don’t sell your DS Lite! It’s GRATE! I mentioned Phoenix Wright and Nintendogs, they are both KILLER APPS and you should get them! Bra[…]

Or perhaps, not, Not, NOT!!! We were all very excited in the many chambers that comprimise my BRANE to see a new short (4 hrs gameplay according to the review) Sam and Max game is out – but how come I hadn’t read this previously in Edge […]

So I got home from Finnish class tired, exhausted and filthy. I wanted a bath, but thought I’d have a quick game of Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time next. Mm yes that lovely blend of turn based fights and amusing characters and fun plot, yes[…]