Ken Newquist I love Amazon’s personalization features, constantly offering up new products for me to check out, but occasionally its recommendations veer into the surreal. Take, for example, this recent recommendation: Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch was released just 4 days ago on July 16, 2004; We thought you’d be interested because you bought Diablo … Read more
The sun rose on NukemCon to find many a bleary-eyed gamer driving through Phillipsburg looking for breakfast. After snagging sustenance at McDonald’s and Manhattan Bagel, the stalwart dice-throwers returned to Easton and the first session of the day: Dungeons & Dragons. It was the third part of the D&D adventure we’d been playing all weekend, … Read more
The Blackrazor Motor Pool was forced into action on Day 2 of NukemCon, as car troubles harried our otherwise excellent day of gaming. It started with Bill’s car; when we went to get the third television out for our Xbox network, he caught a glimpse of something gleaming in his tire. Yes, in his tire. … Read more
Day One of NukemCon arrived yesterday, bringing with it HeroClix, Illuminati, Dungeons & Dragons and plenty of Halo. We kicked off 12+ hours of gaming by opening a case of HeroClix: Ultimates, the new latest expansion for WizKids’ superhero miniatures game. Then came three increasingly cutthroat games of Illuminati; Jon won the first one, Bob … Read more
This page contains a run down of the games my friends and I will be playing at our in-house game day, NukemCon. I’m very happy with this list — while it’s only meant as a guide (hopefully we’ll be able to fit in a few more games not on it) I think it provides a … Read more
Here’s one of the reasons why I love living in Easton, Pa.: ready access to the Delaware River. After all, you can’t have a Labrador and not live near a river … or at least, it’s not quite as much fun. The Delaware River is about a half-mile from my house — a short walk … Read more
sion of Nuketown. The ol’thermonuclear burg has been thoroughly overhauled, with a new look, a new structure, and a few new tricks. This redesign has been a long time coming — the last time we did something like this was back in August 2000. That design was a good one, and it served us well … Read more
The movie should have been a half-hour longer. I want to throw that out first, because almost every review I’ve read of the movie has gushed over its new, darker, more adult demeanor, and utterly ignored the gutting of the novel’s climax. The movie opens identically to the book, with the boy-wizard Harry once again … Read more
I’ve been reading a fair number of gaming magazines recently, foremost among them being Electronic Gaming Monthly, in a quest to find new games to review. As I’ve paged through them, one thing’s become obvious: these magazines weren’t written for me. They’re aimed at people who live to game …rather than gamers who have lives. … Read more
Nuketown has been online since June 1996. That’s 8 years folks — eight long, fun, content filled years. But as I work my way through Nuketown’s redesign, I’ve reluctantly come to terms with the fact that it’s time to burn a few of the ol’thermonuclear burg’s bridges. There are pages on Nuketown that haven’t been … Read more