People often talk about the "dadification" of games, which I suspect is at least partially a function of a workforce that is aging and a medium that is aging with it. I mean aging in the sense of a casked liquor. I don't mean aging in demonstrable progression of decrepitude sense, but know this: the grave awaits us all. Purely in terms of time spent there, it's not even a contest; the tomb is the truest home of man. Along with this dadification comes various representations of young…
AcqInc: The “C” Team Returns April 25th
I have the last four pages of Nurse Normal's Jonaari opus, Never Mind That for you right here. Pages 1-6 and here, pages 7-12 are here, and pages 13-16 are below: Very excited to get back on my shit next Wednesday. (CW)TB
We actually wrote this comic before it was announced that the guided missile was being shelved indefinitely. They have a pretty aggressive schedule over there. I was talking to Jeff Kalles, who you might remember as Jeff No-Magic from Acquisitions Incorporated, about it yesterday. The man is a Project Manager just, like, in his blood, and to hear him tell it managing the kind of seismic success a game like Fortnite is experiencing is an incredibly sophisticated challenge. There's always…
Inspired by true events. My Xbox Live account and at least one of my Uplay accounts are all tied to an ancient Hotmail, which I think is now just some inward lump of Outlook, slowly shriveling like a parasitic twin. It has a folder called Junk Mail, and this folder currently "haz" forty-five mails in it, but even a cursory glance at the "mail" folder will tell you that every mail in there for the last several years is spam. Something like a game reserve, where spam might run free. (I…
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Skirmish, Part Four
If I'm going to commit to a Wargame, it has to present itself to me as a place where stories happen. It's not purely a function of lore, or "fluff," the story doesn't have…
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10 Years of D&D
Almost exactly 10 years ago someone literally had to pay me to play Dungeons & Dragons. Whatever impression I had of the game before that, it was the wrong one. Within a week…
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Skirmish, Part Three
I've only been to San Francisco twice, if I recall correctly, and the second time - the now that I am currently inhabiting - is only nominally San Franciskian. I have a…
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