Category: Gaming
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Netrunner Never Died
Netrunner is one of the best games of all time. It has also been — at least, by official tally — “dead” for six years now. What is Netrunner anyway? Netrunner is an asymmetric card game for two players, with each playing vastly different games that somehow still mesh together beautifully. Since its inception, Netrunner…
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Not a Gamer: Tiny Echo
In Tiny Echo, you play as a one-eyed entity wandering the bowels of a blighted land, delivering mail to spirits.
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Not A Gamer: missed messages
Indie game developer Angela He’s missed messages sets you up to fail, and that’s a good thing.
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The Plant Playthrough: Actual Game
If you’d like some background on The Plant, a free solitaire roleplaying game from Bully Pulpit Games, you can check out my previous post. The game begins. This post contains numerous excerpts and spoilers from The Plant. If you plan on playing the game, do that first! Area: Crawlspace The front doors are bolted shut,…
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The Plant Playthrough
Fiasco, that tabletop game that plays more like a collaborative improvisational storytelling exercise than anything, has always been one of my favorite games. The company that publishes it, Bully Pulpit Games, carries a range of similarly story-driven titles, and it just so happens that some of these miraculously fulfill two criteria: The Plant is one…
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Beer Tales
Two interesting stories popped up on my various feeds this week, and it just so happened that they were about beer. The Chemical is Cultural First, an article from Science Alert about the discovery of the oldest known brewery in China. Two points in particular caught my attention. First, this: According to McGovern, the brewery…
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