CBS's faked National Guard memo inspired a smackdown between new and old media. Read the full story.

A look at the album Fungicide, which is based on Jeff VanderMeer's fantasy fiction. Read the full story.

Back in July, my gaming group held a private, at-home game day we called NukeCon. Well, it turns out there is another NukeCon, one that's been running for 13-odd years in Nebraska, and they were none to thrilled about our version. So, in the interest of inter-gamer harmony, I've retroactively changed the name of our game day to NukeEm Con.

The stirge. It is a monster whose name echoes down the halls of dungeon crawling history, evoking terror and scorn as it does so (terror for low-level characters trapped in a cavern with them, scorn for high-level adventurers all but immune to their blood-sucking attacks). This monster, whose roots date back to the dawn of Dungeons and Dragons 30 years ago, gets the royal treatment in Behemoth3's first horde book: A Swarm of Stirges.