BILLOW! Throughout an adventurer’s life, they will face many challenges, ranging from vicious battles with formidable monsters, to games of wit and guile in a political struggle, or, one of…
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A critical success! Dungeons & Dragons is hot right now — every other podcast is D&D-themed, everyone wants to join a game, and Roll20 is exploding in popularity (no thanks…
Super Smash Bros.’ competitive future might be crew battles and supportive communities
written by Desma Palmer Fettig
A better way forward. While 2020 was a year of tumult for many, the Super Smash Bros. community has experienced more shake-ups than most, ranging from fan division over new…
Roll tide. In 2017 I began running what would become a three year long Dungeons and Dragons campaign, one that promised to be weird, dangerous, and require great thought. My…
A fun idea marred by bugs. Everyone loses things – it’s human nature. But finding them again sometimes requires a little help. In Have You Seen My…, by Yasaman Far,…
30 years ago, Space Shuttle Project was a console vehicle sim that failed to launch
by Launch Crew
written by Launch Crew
Better sims were available. This (lightly) updated article is adapted from the GoodGamesWriting archives. The original article was posted on May 2, 2011 reflecting 20 years since the game’s launch.…
Starting off on the right foot. The idea of a formal ‘Session Zero’–an initial meeting where the ground rules are laid out for campaign based games like Dungeons & Dragons–hasn’t…
What’s happening over at Google? Bad news for Stadia, Google’s streaming-based video game console, as Google announced in a blog post today that they are shuttering their internal development team,…
Another Wii U port. The beleaguered Wii U continues to live on with Switch ports of its library, this time with a previously announced Super Mario 3D World port due…
Long overdue. Fans of Magic: The Gathering will soon have a new way to play, according to Wizards of the Coast, as MTG Arena is slated to arrive on mobile…