Jennifer Hepler’s Not-At-All-Controversial Idea

Feb 23

Jennifer Hepler’s Not-At-All-Controversial Idea

If you like games and you get on the Internet, you’ve probably witnessed the recent shit storm surrounding BioWare employee Jennifer Hepler. Quick recap: in an interview from 2006 (talk about digging up the past), Ms. Hepler suggests that since many games allow you to skip story cut scenes, they should also allow people who really dig the story (and only the...

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Jurassic Hour #28: The Old Republic

Feb 17

Jurassic Hour #28: The Old Republic

Today, we’re devoting a whole episode to STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC. In case you’ve buried your head in the sand for the last six years, it’s an MMORPG from BioWare / EA / LucasArts. It’s been in development since 2006 and only came out in the last few months. And it’s kind really amazing. In the first part of the episode, we interview...

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Jurassic Hour #27: All The Alls

Feb 11

Jurassic Hour #27: All The Alls

Winter sucks. We needed a month to recuperate. But now that we’re back, we’re back with a super-long episode. It’s over two hours! We cover everything that ever happened, EVER. In this episode, we celebrate Pete’s birthday. We also reformat the show! “One Interesting Thing” and “Ask The Experts” has been combined into...

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Elder Scrolls Abandonware: The Journey Is Half The Fun

Jan 28

Elder Scrolls Abandonware: The Journey Is Half The Fun

I said in a recent Jurassic Hour that I was on the fence about whether or not I’d attempt to take on AN ELDER SCROLLS LEGEND: BATTLESPIRE and/or THE ELDER SCROLLS ADVENTURES: REDGUARD, namely because they were notoriously difficult to run in their own time, and have become even more difficult to run today. I’ll be providing a times-two review of these...

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MAGFest BRAGFest (with pics!)

Jan 18

MAGFest BRAGFest (with pics!)

It’s been over a week since MAGFest X ended. I am still recovering. It’s taken me until now just to go over it all in my head. Now that I’ve done that, I’m going to use this space to do the thing I’m probably not supposed to do after a convention: brag about people I’ve met. And, to take it a step further, let’s start by...

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