As the Austin Game Developers Conference wound to a close, I found myself in the hallway doing a mental inventory of those companies ...

YAR! Listen up you scallywags! As I was walkin about PAX among them landlubbers I found me some buried treasure! Ok, so it ...

John Scott Tynes, longtime designer and publisher in paper gaming, wrote a monthly column, “The Contrarian,” for early issues of The Escapist. (See, ...

John Scott Tynes is the Producer of Pirates of the Burning Sea. Today, we’re featuring an exclusive interview with him on the progress ...

They’d gamed together before, this group. I’d never met them until that night. They were veteran tabletop roleplayers, passionate about their characters and ...

I’m willing to give even awful things a fair shake as long as they can provide a moment of complete absurdity. Wal-Mart did ...

Starting with the original Castle Wolfenstein game on the Apple II, I have personally shot, stabbed, driven over, detonated or otherwise killed thousands ...

Statements I’ve made in past installments of this column have inspired groups of lederhosen-clad gaming otaku to storm my lonely castle brandishing pitchforks, ...

When Shrek 2 hit theatres, there were no banners trumpeting “Now with more polygons!” or “Three extra jokes per minute!” Yet those are ...

The third time I went to GenCon, the big tabletop gaming convention, I was a freshman in college with no money. I borrowed ...

When Microsoft’s J Allard told developers the Xbox 360 would ship with half a gig of RAM, they whooped and cheered. It meant ...

I sat down in the movie theatre. The lights went dim, the curtains parted, and the projector fired up. The big white screen ...