My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, wherein I clinically evaluate why anyone expecting Duke Nukem Forever to be successful is likely making a poor choice.
Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
Duke, I’m over your antics
Friday, July 15th, 2011a most rapturous card game
Thursday, May 19th, 2011My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, in which I clinically evaluate the card game Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer.
competitive face-stabbing
Friday, May 13th, 2011My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, wherein I clinically evaluate the card game Thunderstone.
huge tracts of land
Monday, May 9th, 2011My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, in which I clinically evaluate the card game Dominion.
there may be cake inside this Orange Box, but that might be a lie
Friday, April 22nd, 2011My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, wherein I clinically evaluate my geek sin of never having played anything in The Orange Box, and how I have now sought indulgences for said sin.
dropping a deuce on Drop 7
Thursday, April 7th, 2011My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, wherein I clinically evaluate the lovely iPhone game Drop 7 and the not so lovely effect digital software distribution through iTunes has had on it.
now I wait 10 hours for a peasant to craft my healing potions
Thursday, March 17th, 2011My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, wherein I clinically evaluate Dragon Age: Legends, the Facebook tie-in game to Dragon Age 2.
this is life. roll for damage.
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, wherein I clinically evaluate the webseries GOLD: Night of the Zombie King.
so, you want to know about the champion?
Thursday, February 24th, 2011My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, wherein I clinically evaluate the Dragon Age II demo, Rise to Power.
lurks the weekend, full and turgid with things
Friday, October 22nd, 2010It’s been one of those weeks.
Timing, cc by-nc-nd image from hdeb89 on Flickr
Yeah, pretty much like that.
It so happens that this weekend is brimming with things to do, and I’ll be hitting up each of the below events at some point to be festive and decompress. If you happen to be in the Baltimore area, I heartily suggest you join in as well:
- The Family Game Store’s Fifth Birthday Extravaganza – Our FLGS is the best on the planet, and is celebrating its fifth year, and we were among the first of its customers, and our presence is therefore mandated, so we will be participating in the revels with them on Saturday evening, October 23. There will be games and cake. It shall be a brilliant time.
- The USA Science and Engineering Festival Grand Finale Expo – The “largest science festival in the nation” concludes this weekend with a massive free event on Saturday and Sunday from 10am – 5:30pm on the National Mall in DC. Laura will be helping out with space-related activities at Discovering the Universe (booth 435) on Sunday, while I will be pondering what mad mischief I can get into with the American Society of Microbiology (booths 1141 and 1143, also MWA HA HA HA).
- Capclave 2010 – The regional science-fiction literary convention Capclave is this weekend in Rockville, MD. Laura and I have been twice before, and have found the experience somewhat underwhelming – both times it felt a bit like showing up to the meeting of a club you don’t belong to, rather than a welcoming fan community. That noted, this year’s guest of honor are the awesome Connie Willis and the VanderMeers, which makes it worth finding out if the third time is a charm. That, and hunting down a fanzine panel to attend. Heh.
