Goblin feasts and Lovecraft’s beasts: The new board games of Gen Con 2016
Bringing in more than 60,000 people, the annual Gen Con gaming convention has gotten so large that this year’s event in…
The most promising games from E3 2016, part two
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 part…
The most promising games from E3 2016, part one
Another year of the Electronic Entertainment Expo is in the books, and after wading through the video game trade show’s…
Dog butts and a “haunted” NES: The strange game machines of IndieCade East
IndieCade East always proves to be a breath of fresh air for game design. Every year at this event in New York’s Museum…
Gameological at Essen: Highlights from the world’s biggest board game fair
Last month, I once again had the pleasure of attending the Internationale Spieltage in Essen, Germany for four days of…
Witchy schemes and London Dread: A taste of the new board games at Gen Con 2015
Walking the massive exhibit hall of the annual Gen Con gaming convention this year, you could find dice made out of…
What’s it like to be a top Magic: The Gathering player?
Reid Duke travels to Magic: The Gathering tournaments 40 weekends each year. “It’s a lot,” he said. “I enjoy traveling,…
The good, the bad, and the decadent: Behind the scenes of our weirdest E3 meetings
It’s true that the bulk of a journalist’s work at E3 resembles standard trade show fare. You book a number of…
An unlikely hit inspired a community and fierce rivalry at a Chicago arcade bar
Ms. Pac-Man, BurgerTime, and other quarter-eating games of yore sit abandoned as dozens of beer-sipping patrons pack…
Summoning genies and running for Swedish parliament at the Essen board game fair
The Internationale Spieltage—otherwise known as SPIEL or simply Essen, after its host city—is held every October in…
Previewing the games of tomorrow today from Gen Con
More than 56,000 people attended Gen Con in August, a 14 percent increase from 2013’s record-breaking numbers. The…
RenQuest turns a renaissance faire into a massive role-playing game
Every summer, a 30-acre fairground on the border between Illinois and Wisconsin transforms into the English city of…
Grand Theft Ovid is what happens when games and ancient poems meet on stage
Tucked away on a side street in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood is a little theater called The Brick. Since 2002,…
We clean out our E3 notebook with turkey legs and dancing unicorns
It’s relatively easy to write about story-driven games like BioShock or Metal Gear. When games are framed by a single…
The future will be strapped on: Testing wearable tech at E3
The conversations at E3 last week centered mostly on games played the old-fashioned way, by pressing buttons on a…
Chicago’s top Skee-Ball club is like a bowling league but with more puns
In his 2000 book Bowling Alone: The Collapse And Revival Of American Community, political scientist Robert D. Putnam…
Begging for likes and betting on rock-paper-scissors at IndieCade East
Last month, the Museum Of The Moving Image in Queens was briefly taken over by IndieCade East, one of the premiere…
How a transgender “foreign hope” is challenging the pro StarCraft world
“Wait, what did you say?” The conversation I was having with the man beside me in the StarCraft T-shirt had been…
Last-minute gift picks from the Chicago Toy & Game Fair
While we spend most of our time talking about video games on Gameological, we think that board games make great gifts.…
