It’s been only five weeks since the QA testers at Raven Studios were on strike, and today they announce that they are forming the first union at a US-based gaming company. Raven Studios, a division of Activision Blizzard, might be the thorn in the paw in the new Microsoft acquisition.Continue Reading
Today, Wednesday the 19th, Sony Group Corp’s stock shares took a $20 billion drop on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. According to analysts, this 13% drop in valuation was a direct result of Microsoft’s recent announcement that it will be acquiring Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest publishers in the industry.Continue Reading
If you have been on the internet for the past day or so, I’m sure that you have heard that Microsoft is set to acquire Activision Blizzard. You know the frat guys who publish of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. Yeah, the one who can’t seem to create a newContinue Reading
Everyone knows, if you have listened to the podcast, radio show, any of our live shows, or just paid attention to the station, that I like games where I get to build things, farm materials and survive in a world where I have a chance. If you are like me,Continue Reading
Othercide first caught my attention while I was perusing Steam, looking for games that I would enjoy on my PC. I have always struggled with the idea of gaming on a PC outside of strategy or MMO style games, and as such I have tended to stay away from FPS games or games that fall outside of those types of categories. I’ve enjoyed Warcraft, Command and Conquer and even the X-COM games and this is what led to my discovery of Othercide.Continue Reading
When I first started Valheim, I was immediately greeted by one of the best/worst opening sequences imaginable. The dreaded wall of text. If done properly, the text wall can convey important and critical information about the story in a way that draws the player deeper and cements an emotional involvement. If done poorly, it can drag an already arduous process even further into a damning spiral of despair. Too Melodramatic? Probably, but you knew who I was when you clicked this review. Thankfully, Valheim keeps the text short, informative and interesting without feeling like an afterthought. Simultaneously precise and inelegant, it gives the player what they need and deposits them into the game.Continue Reading
Chaosium has appointed Community Ambassadors for its Miskatonic Repository and Jonstown Compendium community content programs on DriveThruRPG. The Miskatonic Repository is Chaosium’s platform on DriveThruRPG for independent creators of gaming material for the Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game. It was launched in December 2018. The Jonstown Compendium, established in December 2019, fulfils the same function for RuneQuest and Greg Stafford’s world of Glorantha.TheContinue Reading
Last year, in a creative collaboration with Chaosium, Professional Writing students from Taylor University (Upland, IN) created and published a Call of Cthulhu scenario as part of their studies. Today, the published result of that creative collaboration, the scenario Refractions of Glasston, has received recognition with a Judges’ Spotlight Award in the 2020 ENnie Awards. “This is a wonderfulContinue Reading
Hey folk! On this week’s article we’re going to be discussing everyone’s favorite “Living Plant”, the newly released Groot. Groot is a low-cost, close range, defensive character that specializes in heighted resiliency with a powerful control element. With a high stamina of 7 on both healthy and injured sides andContinue Reading
Coming soon to the website will be the very first open play-test of our new roleplaying system. It will not be the final version, as any and all notes garnered during the play-test will be considered during the next phase. We will post a link as soon as it isContinue Reading