"A video of the Staff of Efflorescence, a part of the Skyrim mod Plant Trees. The staff allows you to "paint" flowers anywhere in Skyrim, immediately having a calming effect on the population. Enemies will cease attempting to destroy you in order to smell the flowers."

Too bad you can't paint flowers on people.

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So a few minutes passed and keeping with that tradition, its time for some new Diablo 3 news! Above is the new Diablo 3 feature video for the Monk. I will admit, the Monk is a class I wasn't too interested in at all. I typically don't prefer hand to hand combat in games, but after watching the video I might give him a spin. He almost seems akin to the ol' Diablo 2 Paladin.

The second socketable new bits is that the Diablo 3 Beta servers will go dark May 1st. So get all your early level play in now because come May 1st, you will be without for 14 days until the official launch May 15th.

Lastish, it seems Blizzard hastily patched something they did not intend and may have... Read All


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Worst game I ever played. Almost unplayable. I love the show and thought to myself: "even if it's a steaming pile of $++t, I'll be able to pull $20 of enjoyment out of it."


Not even close.


What's the worst game you ever bought?


for all the super mario lovers out there. i hope this lights up your life!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/90066890/interactive-8-bit-question-block-lamp


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I love board games. One game ive wanted to add to my collection has been Descent Journeys into the Dark. I really enjoy awesome table-top fantasy games. I am a huge fan of board game designer Kevin Wilson's Doom: The Board Game and heard Descent was worth checking out.

As I did some research on the game the consensus seemed to be that it was good but suffered from a few problems. Notably it was hard and the rules were too complicated. I can understand that as The Doom Board Game has very complicated rules as well its just such a great game I can get around that. That said, I took what people were saying to heart and didn't get Descent because of what people mentioned.

A... Read All


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The source code for Prince of Persia was released today from the original Apple 2 port:

https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II

Awesome to see this sort of thing happen regularly. A few companies I respect have released source for some awesome games like Sim City, Doom 3, Quake 3 & Duke Nukem 3D.

Seeing this kind of thing is awesome because it allows these classic games to live on well beyond they are fiscally viable to keep running on modern systems. I believe culture should be preserved and source released of old games helps that.

Heres hoping that old games like Warcraft Orcs and Humans, Unreal Tournament and Mario Brothers see a source release at... Read All


Occasionally games come along that change the way you think about what games can do. A month or so back I heard that Sword & Sworcery was a rad iOS game that took the experience beyond the typical mobile game faire to have a great story and interesting game mechanics. I picked it up hoping for great and I wasn't disappointed.

The game brings you into its unique universe from the start and I was immediately hooked. I watched the entire intro and "more information" game sections before I even started playing. It was that unique.

The game is stylistically similar to the old Out of this World game released on PC and Super Nintendo. It forgoes speech in favor of text and... Read All


Two Part interview with the Diablo 3 developers.

Here is part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBbEuHivdNw&list=UUxn8csYeZg6awRnZS-aqg0g&index=1&feature=plcp

In the video its the end of 2011 and they look very tired. I wonder how they are doing now?


I love Ticket to Ride! It is one of my "go to" games when wanting to play a board game with people that haven't played before. The rules are easy to learn, and all players in the game can feel like they are making progress towards their goals throughout the game (even if in actuality there are losing pretty badly). New players wouldn't even realize they are losing, really, and still have a sense of accomplishment at the end of the game regardless! The board is attractive, the pieces have a nice tactile sense, and the game overall has a theme that feels really integrated and natural rather than slapped on and made-up. Both young and old alike can play very successfully,... Read All


Settlers is the first euro-style board game that I ever played. Rules were pretty easy to pickup. Definitely has some element of luck since you are subject to random chance of which spaces are available to you at the beginning of the game as well as the roll of the dice during each turn. One unique thing is that psychology and group dynamics can have large affects through the ability to trade resources. Winning strategies mitigate the feast and famine of the rolls of the dice by diversifying the dice rolls that yield resources. It isn't my favorite board game probably because I lose at a greater rate than other games. I also hate it when the robber gets put on... Read All