Acid for Blood

There are plans for a Penny Arcade Expo on the East Coast in 2008. PAX05 drew over 9 000 Penny Arcade and gaming fans to Bellevue, Washington.
Last year, someone on Girl Gamers had posted to recruit convention staff volunteers to work at PAX05. He contacted me directly because he knew that I was a veteran […]

Crap. Before I went on holiday, I checked the release date of Sigma Star Saga with the GameStop I shop from. The Manager told me that the release was 29th August. This meant that it would be in stores on 30th August. This was perfect, because I’d be home from holiday at that point. I […]

Not game-related (unless I put game music MP3s in this little beauty, which I will), but it’s tech, so I will write about it. I ordered this on Thursday. Black with 1 GB of space.
I considered the blue one or the red one, too. It was hard making a decision on this point, because all […]

Thanks to pooling our resources, Dyannamika’s hard work, and the generosity of her friends, the Callers of Cthulhu [Cthu] now have capes! Originally, we thought that the random squiggly thing would be an ideal emblem, because if you squint, it resembles a mass of tentacles. The emblem would have been silver on a black field, […]

I am back from holiday and from working at Otakon. I guess I missed gaming blog reading. I did manage to check blogs at least once whilst I was away, but I don’t think I will have time to backtrack and catch up on every little thing.
People seem to think I’m some sort of uber […]

One of my friends just typed this to me:
It’s amazing. I have no idea when your birthday is, but I know you play Nina Williams. What the fuck?
LOL.
(FYI, I have known him for several years.)

Here’s some information on my character for that one-off game of Dungeons & Dragons I mentioned previously:
Name: Morag Kincade
Class: Barbarian
Race: Human
Level: 5
Hit Points: 90 (We were allowed full Hit Points.)
I totally rolled these stats (I have an eye witness!):
Strength: 18
Dexterity: 16
Constitution: 18 (I bumped this one up to 19 because you can increase a Stat […]

I’m stuck in Atlanta on a layover which was originally supposed to be just a little over an hour long, but my connecting flight got cancelled due to shite weather. I was re-booked on another flight, and now the wait is about five hours long in total. I killed some time by talking to Dyannamika […]

To the ten or eleven of you who read my blog regularly:
I will be away, visiting a friend in a distant land (two time zones to the West). After that, I will work at my 7th Otakon. In all, I will be out of town for a little over a fortnight. This means I will […]

This week’s Economist (August 6th - 12th) features video games in their Special Report. “Chasing the Dream” is a great article that summarises current political climate in the industry and discusses the debate over its social impacts. It highlights three key “overlooked factors”:
That attitudes to gaming are marked by a generational divide; that there is […]