Nuketown’s tweets for the weeks of March 7 and March 14, 2022. BOOKS | Wil Wheaton – Still Just a Geek (Twitter thread) RPG | Kickstarter – Cthulhu Awakens Roleplaying Game RETRO GAMES | Ready Player One Replay – Joust TOYS | Nerdist –[…]
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Author: Ken Newquist
RPO Replay: Street Fighter II
The Ready Player One Replay is an ongoing exploration of the games that inspired the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Love it or hate it, there’s value in revisiting our geeky roots. Quote Since then, we’d used Street Fighter II[…]
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RPO Replay: Dungeons of Daggorath
The Ready Player One Replay is an ongoing exploration of the games that inspired the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Love it or hate it, there’s value in revisiting our geeky roots. Quote “Daggorath” (with two “g”s) could refer only[…]
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Top of the Pile: Inferno, Dark Ages, Ultimate All-New Spider-man
I’m once again caught up on my comic book reading, which means I can actually talk about what’s going on with my beloved X-Men. It also means I have time to delve into Marvel Unlimited looking for some new reads[…]
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NuketownSF – The One Ring, Abandoned Places, Futurma, Scrappy Starships, Fake Commutes, Summer Reading
Nuketown’s tweets for the week of February 27, 2022. RPG | Gnome Stew – The One Ring: Roleplaying in the World of the Lord of the Rings Review STREAMING | Deadline Hollywood (retweet) Futurama holdout John DiMaggio has closed a[…]
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RPO Replay: Joust
The Ready Player One Replay is an exploration of the games that inspired the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Quote I couldn’t help but grin as I read the name on the game’s backlit marquee: JOUST. Williams Electronics, 1982. — Ready Player One p.[…]
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NuketownSF – UFOs, Spider-men, Monsters, Code Girls, Low-Prep Games
Nuketown’s tweets for the week of February 20, 2022. ASTRONOMY | Ars Technica – New fast radio burst found in area that shouldn’t have any sources RPG | Gnome Stew – Why You Should Try Low-Prep Games In Addition To D&D UFOS[…]
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Off the Bookshelf: Lost Fleet, Lord of Light, Mountains of Madness
It’s a cold, dark winter … but this edition of Off the Bookshelf brings a little light, a lot of heroics, and, ok, mountains of madness. Maybe avoid the last one if you’re not in the right headspace… The Lost[…]
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NuketownSF – Futurama Returns, Hybrid Immunity, Zines!, Mario Kart 8 courses, Kelvin Star Trek is Back
Nuketown’s tweets for the week of February 13, 2022. MOVIES |Variety – ‘Star Trek’ Cast, Including Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, Returning for Fourth Film PANDEMIC | Hybrid immunity offers increased protection that is longer-lasting against Covid-19 reinfection, studies show RPG[…]
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Zine Month 2022
It’s February, which means snow, long days that are slowly getting shorter, and zines. So many zines. For the last three years, Kickstarter promoted ZineQuest, a celebration, and promotion of print and PDF zines for role-playing games. This year, Kickstarter[…]
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