Ken Newquist Last week, for the first time in years, I found myself home sick from work. I’ve had a few minor colds over the last few years, but I mostly dodged them with little more than sniffles. Not this cold. On Monday, it waylaid me a few minutes after I got back from skiing when a … Read more
The release of the trailer for World War Z inspired me to read the book of the same name before the film’s version could burn its way into my brain. It was well worth it; the book’s a fantastic read that provides a wide-ranging, highly personal view of the Zombie Apocolypse. It also inspired me to see what the current state of Zombie RPGs is for a possible Knights of the Dinner Table column.
One of my goals with the Nuketown redesign was to aggressively pursue a social media strategy, rather then letting it simply flop around like a dying fish.
It’s been a while since Nuketown ran a “Follow Friday” column for Twitter, but it seemed like a tradition worth restarting. This time around we’ve got geek dads, RPG designers, Mars rover drivers, science fiction publishers, and much more.
My birthday (Dec. 17) and Christmas have come and gone, and now there’s a nice pile of geeky presents stacked on the Geek Tree’s rocket-themed tree skirt. On the board game front I turned in a birthday gift card to get the original Carcassone. My wife Sue and I enjoy playing Carcassone: Hunters and Gatherers, … Read more
An Even Scarier Solstice is the follow up to A Very Scary Solistice, a parody holiday album featuring songs inspired by equal parts Christmas carols and H.P. Lovecraft.
It was a good Christmas for my Pathfinder campaign, as I got two of the new game master-friendly books released by Paizo — Ultimate Equipment and NPC Codex — and one player-friendly book, the Advanced Players Guide. I’ve had my eye on Ultimate Equipment since it came out; one of my frustrations with my Second … Read more
When it comes to pinball, there are two tables that I love. Star Trek: The Next Generation and Indiana Jones. I easily spent hundreds of dollars in quarters on those two games in college, and they’re the two games I’d most like to own.
It’s been a good year for Star Wars fans. Disney bought Lucasfilm, and announced that a new trilogy — with some of the original actors, but without George Lucas directing — will kick off in 2015. We also saw the return of Star Wars gaming with a slew of new releases from Fantasy Flight Games: The Star Wars card game, expansions for the X Wing miniature combat game, and finally a new Star Wars role-playing game.
Every year for 20 years I asked for Electronic Battleship for my birthday. I never got it, and instead made due with the standard, analog iteration that didn’t have cool sound effects. Flash foward: I’m 41, and I still don’t have Electronic Battleship, but I did get to watch the cinematic disaster movie based on … Read more