Sep 1 2016
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Bringing in more than 60,000 people, the annual Gen Con gaming convention has gotten so large that this year’s event…
Jun 20 2016
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E3 2016 is all said and done, but as promised, I’ve still got a few exciting games to tell you about. You can find…
Jun 17 2016
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Another year of the Electronic Entertainment Expo is in the books, and after wading through the video game trade…
May 19 2016
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IndieCade East always proves to be a breath of fresh air for game design. Every year at this event in New York’s…
Dec 1 2015
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Last month, I once again had the pleasure of attending the Internationale Spieltage in Essen, Germany for four days…
Sep 8 2015
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Walking the massive exhibit hall of the annual Gen Con gaming convention this year, you could find dice made out of…
Jul 30 2015
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Reid Duke travels to Magic: The Gathering tournaments 40 weekends each year. “It’s a lot,” he said. “I enjoy…
Jun 24 2015
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It’s true that the bulk of a journalist’s work at E3 resembles standard trade show fare. You book a number of…
Apr 29 2015
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Ms. Pac-Man, BurgerTime, and other quarter-eating games of yore sit abandoned as dozens of beer-sipping patrons pack…
Dec 9 2014
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The Internationale Spieltage—otherwise known as SPIEL or simply Essen, after its host city—is held every October in…
Sep 30 2014
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More than 56,000 people attended Gen Con in August, a 14 percent increase from 2013’s record-breaking numbers. The…
Aug 13 2014
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Every summer, a 30-acre fairground on the border between Illinois and Wisconsin transforms into the English city of…
Jul 22 2014
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Tucked away on a side street in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood is a little theater called The Brick. Since…
Jun 19 2014
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It’s relatively easy to write about story-driven games like BioShock or Metal Gear. When games are framed by a…
Jun 17 2014
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The conversations at E3 last week centered mostly on games played the old-fashioned way, by pressing buttons on a…
May 29 2014
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In his 2000 book Bowling Alone: The Collapse And Revival Of American Community, political scientist Robert D. Putnam…
Mar 5 2014
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Last month, the Museum Of The Moving Image in Queens was briefly taken over by IndieCade East, one of the premiere…
Feb 5 2014
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“Wait, what did you say?” The conversation I was having with the man beside me in the StarCraft T-shirt had been…
Dec 17 2013
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While we spend most of our time talking about video games on Gameological, we think that board games make great…