When you want to show off illustrative pictures for tutorial or review purposes for game components, it's a good idea to learn how to take closeups. Which I don't really know how to. According to this article , the most important factors are lighting...

One of these days I should do a blogging software comparison, except that I haven't yet used Wordpress , one of the up-and-coming and easy-to-install PHP blogs, with quite a lot of features. These days, however, I'd rather use a free blogging site like ...

I'll put up my reviews of this Victorian Steam-Punk (e.g., Science Fiction in the Victorian Age) series later, but I just wanted to get people started, since reading the comic will be the ultimate way of determining whether you want to continue reading or...

Wizard Kings is a Columbia block war game that uses fantasy armies to fight across maps with varied terrain, capturing cities for resources to build up and upgrade army elements, with which you can launch a final assault against your opponent. It's more of a...

I love the Icehouse system. Not only can you play a variety of great games with it, but I believe it also encourages interesting and unique forays into game design. Ah, Icehouse, how shall I count the ways I love thee? 3 kinds of pieces, 5 each,...

And that's why they're my favorite. Out of print CCGs are often: Much cheaper on Ebay for a while, maybe forever . Due to the unusual distribution that a CCG has as opposed to your typical game, a CCG 's value actually drops off...

Despite someone complaining about the quality of Columbia components ? or, rather, the lack of glitziness of Columbia components ? I dropped my money on the Wizard Kings bundle from Columbia Games anyways. Why, especially since I have War of the...