Intoxicated with Gaming!
Imagine a old fashion Inn, then add a few heroes regaling the clientele with fantastic story’s of fighting dragons and saving damsels in distress. Are they really telling the truth or are they just trying to tell the most fantastic boasts so they don’t look like a weakling? Well with Braggart your the one making the boasts and setting other story’s straight.
My Fiancée, being an absolute star, brought me Alan Wake on the Xbox 360 last week.
This game had been on my radar for a while as I’m a huge horror film / Stephen King fan and the trailers on YouTube made it look like a mixture of a King novel with a X-files episode.
From the very beginning the game is all about the story and with the main character being a writer it only confirmed my Stephen King theory. Hell, in the very first line that comes out of the main character mouth he mentioned King’s name. [more...]
So, I have done it, finally completed a game on the xbox! Much to the boyfs dismay. Hey even he has yet to complete a game. And I mean complete, 100%, all achevements complete! I really enjoyed it and seeing as it is the only game I have owned on the xbox it can only be a good thing. The lego games have always been fun with a quirky sense of humor. Star Wars was the first I played. The great thing is they appeal to your inner vandle, just smash everything and grab loads of studs. My kinda game. The cut scenes are great to, as an avid fan of the Harry Potter books and films it was great to see a different and fun take on them. Well J. K. Rowling did go all deep and depressing by the end. [more...]
When you first pick up this box you know that there are quality components inside by the weight. Now, picture the scene. I’m at my Friendly Local Gaming Stores (FLAGS) just browsing the boardgames section looking for any new additions, when I came across Agricola. I reached up on tip toe to the top shelf where it [...]
This weekend I played Arkham Horror on the recommendation of one of my readers. And I have to say that I am not disappointed.
Arkham is under attack from multiple dimensions. Portals are being ripped open all over the city, spewing out corrupted evil monsters and other unmentionables who wander around the streets driving the locals mad and killing anyone who stands in their way…
So last night I decided to give the new iphone / ipod app from Fantasy Flight Games a try in our Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (WFRP) session.
Yes that’s right lady’s and gentlemen the new issue of Thru-the-Portal is available for download.
There is some great articles in this quarters issue:
- Review of the UK Games Expo
- looking at innovation or lack of in gaming
- Interview with the designer of Cubiko
- Muses on gaming after a new child was born
- Salute event review
- Talking to Nigel Scarfe about getting paid to play games with kids
- Interview with the artist Dan Scott
And much, much more….
IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE FILM THERE WILL BE SPOILERS AHEAD, SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. I want to give my readers a quick review of a film I saw this weekend. “GASP…… a non gaming post, how can he do this to us?” Well yes technically its not a gaming post as such……but I have [...]
This weekend I had the chance to get a few card games to the table, including a few that I had not played or had not seen table time for a while. First up was Magic the Gathering. My nephew had been asking about this game and as I had a few packs laying around [...]
With the next gaming night on Tuesday I thought I better finish off what happened at the last session. If you would like to read the first part of this Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition session please visit here. When the players characters returned from battle with the undead during the flashback scene they found [...]