Which D & D Character Am I (Take 2 the quiz at Take One is gone now.):
I Am A: Neutral Good Human Fighter/Sorcerer (3rd/3rd Level)

This video of wacky college kids playing Quidditch looks just like my son’s tenth birthday party. Although the ten year olds were smart enough to lose the brooms. The kids used bean bags as blodgers and an untied balloon released at random during the game as a snitch. If a seeker caught the balloon before [...]

The newest entry into the extreme sports arena is a video game, DANCE DANCE IMMOLATION. It plays like those other dance mat video games, but when you miss a step you get hosed down by fire. You can see the photos of it here. Maybe this will make video arcades popular again….
Via Wired

Because everyone needs some motivation here are some motivational posters for role playing gamers, some are pretty esoteric, but some are very, very good. Having just come back from Historicon my favorite is this one. More traditional de-motivation posters can be found at Despair Inc.

Via Table of Malcontents

This one is popular out there and you may have seen it already, but it is brilliant. Mostly brilliant if you are old enough to remember Space Invaders when it was the ultimate game of the day, but brilliant anyway.

Via Cnet

I just picked up and started Julian Dibbell’s new book Play Money and am really enjoying it. It is about farming gold in computer games for money, a topic that interests me both as a player and as someone who is interested in how our economies are becoming more abstract and fragile. Think about what [...]

Bill sends along an article with the 50 worst video games names. Sure these are pretty lame, but think of the some of the golden oldies like ‘Elevator Action‘ or ‘Burgertime‘, they were fun games, but elevator action hardly sounds like a thrill a minute game. If I ever invent a really fun game I [...]

Good story over at Kotaku about World of Warcraft being played in Iraq, Iran, Syria and the rest of the Axis of Evil which raises a number of good thoughts about how the internet and its virtual escapes like games unite people. It also raises good questions about how the companies that make these games [...]

I am very suspicious of some the numbers given in the this article on virtual economies, but it is a fascinating look at the future anyhow. For right now, the populations are just too low and specialised, I am guessing that real money is being made, but some the numbers quoted sound way to high [...]

While I was living in the UK one way I kept in touch with some of my friends was thru online games. It wasn’t as good as the real thing, but if you squinted it was almost like hanging out together. Anyway here is an article from the Post about families that play online games [...]