I agreed to contribute periodically to recently revamped website Gaming Point. I just finished writing a post contrasting boardgames and videogames, pointing out how the physical nature of boardgames separates the genre from its digital sibling at a fundamental level, and how the growth in boardgaming popularity can be seen as a form of gaming […]
Welcoming 2014
Happy 2014, everyone! I hope you all had a merry Christmas! This is the time of year when many of the major gaming outlets traditionally reflect on the “best” games of the past twelve months. Unfortunately, I’m not really in a position to do the same. I haven’t exactly kept myself up-to-speed on the latest […]
Some Netrunner love
This past weekend, Gator Games of San Mateo, California, hosted a local tournament as part of Fantasy Flight Games‘ Android: Netrunner Plugged-in Tour. Gator Games is my local go-to brick-and-mortar hobby boardgaming shop. While they’ve hosted other official Netrunner game nights, this most recent one was the one to attend. A couple of FFG staffers were on-site […]
Alternate reality gaming at Walt Disney World
My wife and I recently took our son to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, to celebrate his fourth birthday. We figured he was just old enough to comprehend and enjoy the theme park offerings, just tall enough to ride the majority of the rides, and just cooperative enough to make the trip not entirely a […]
Designer of Risk Legacy announces next Legacy game
Plaid Hat Podcast listeners (or “Dougs”, if you prefer) have known about this for a while, but Rob Daviau, the mind between the revolutionary perma-change elements of Risk Legacy, has since left Hasbro and is working on a new Legacy game. That game, SeaFall, has just been announced. It is being published (unsurprisingly) by Plaid […]
Card Hunter is live!
Card Hunter, a brilliant electronic take on the world of tabletop RPG’s, is out of beta! I know, I’m a little late on this news, but better late than never. I first played the game at PAX Prime 2012, apparently being the first person at the convention to win their most coveted swag: a Card […]
Back home (and gone for good)
Well… hello! You probably don’t know me. I tend to go by the name “schlaghund” around the interwebs. Truth is I’ve been on and off this here blogging thing for the last, oh, seven years or so – some “on,” but mostly definitely a lot of “off.” I used to write a little bit about […]