A number of things occurred to me recently. For one, next week it will be eight years since Peter Jackson’s first Lord of the Rings film came out (and seven and six years since the second and third ones, respectively). Second, the 25th would be Humphrey Bogart’s 110th birthday, were he still alive. Also, apparently [...]

Being a long-time guinea pig owner and all around rodent person, I’ve been more excited than anyone probably should be about the upcoming Disney/Bruckheimer offering called G-Force, a CGI-enhanced action comedy about high-tech superspies who just happen to be guinea pigs. Now, the premise may not sound like much (and it’s certainly likely to end [...]

I was reminiscing about old games the other day. 1993 was a good year for computer games. It saw the release of UFO: Enemy Unknown, Syndicate, and of course, Doom. And then there was the little gem, undeservedly largely forgotten since, Cannon Fodder. Cannon Fodder was a fun, addictive and very challenging action game, and [...]

As a result of some recent returns from retailers, the Star Wreck Roleplaying Game is again available from the Wreckstore. Undoubtedly the best commercial roleplaying game ever thrown together in two months, it works both as a parody of Star Trek and SF RPGs, as well as – gasp! – an enjoyable comedy RPG in [...]

The publicity campaign against the blatant-infringement-of-privacy bill about to be hammered through the Finnish legislative system that we recently blogged about has, as of this morning 8 P.M. local, done the impossible: produced a TV infomercial mostly on a volunteer basis (on a schedule redefining the term “tight”) and gone on the air on national [...]