There are three forms of LARP, traditionally. Or three approaches. They are: Narrativist: I hit it with my axe because for generations before me, my ancestors have hit things with axes. This axe...
Read More →So that was our show. Or, rather, this was: (Photos in this post by Tom Garnett, reproduced under a CC-A licence, more available on Facebook) I’m told that was the coldest Easter for...
Read More →I had the original SimCity for the Amiga, but it didn’t really grab me. It wasn’t until SimCity 2000 (Back when you could use 2000 to sound futuristic) that I got hooked in...
Read More →This is Salique. She’s a Human Engineer in Guild Wars 2: My first MMO was Ultima Online. For a long time, I tried a lot of MMOs for a trial period, until...
Read More →With the popularity of the character Horace only eclipsed by The Hobbit for exposure this year, it was inevitable that a studio would sign up to do some kind of cheap cash-in game this holiday...
Read More →In five days, just at the start of the Bank Holiday weekend, Guild Wars 2 launches. I have, as my girlfriend will confirm with some resignation, been spending an awful lot of time...
Read More →People of the civilized world, listen, for your gods speak! Alexander of Macedon, he whom you called Great, is dead. He shall not be remembered as the king who united the Greeks, nor...
Read More →The problem is, that there’s a lot that is New And Revolutionary and therefore Bad And Different, and there’s a lot that’s Exactly The Same, and therefore Copying WoW. The same kind of...
Read More →Diablo 3 is … Diablo 2++. No revolutions in gameplay, no “wow” moments, really. I mean, the previous game *was* great, and this is just as click-addictive as the last one. The fighting is...
Read More →Someone on Reddit asked for “Your best/worst larp stories ever”. Now, most of my best moments larping need to be secret for a little while longer, I think, but I posted one of...
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