Just passing along the gaming love: June 23, 2007 is Free RPG Day. Listing of participating stores is here.

New Oblivion-style RPG for Xbox 360 and PC to be released in Q2 2007. If it lives up to the trailers and the info on the site, should be good! Elveon

Was playing chess with The Boy last night. Things were going solidly in my favor until I made two consecutive stupid moves, which he took full advantage of. Boy 1, Me 0. We started a second game. Halfway through the game, The Boy made a really stupid mistake, and realized it. In anger/frustration, he smashed his fist into his leg while uttering a ( Read more... )

T'was a good Cernmas, indeed! 2 naps, power shopping at Eddie Bauer where I got a hell of a lot of clothes (K maintains it had been at least 2 years since I'd bought new clothes for myself), all-you-can-eat sushi buffet for lunch, and dinner at Cheesecake Factory. My birthday loot included a 2007 calendar with absolutely gorgeous photographs of ( Read more... )

I learned the hard way last night not to try to mess around with my Xbox 360 whilst in the throes of pain and anguish. I, *ahem* accidentally deleted my level 25 character that had finished the main quest line, was guildmaster of the fighter's guild, and arena champion. I was in such shock afterwards that I couldn't react. I *did* manage to keep a ( Read more... )

I've found something even sweeter and more addictive than Warcrack: Oblivion! ZOMGWTFBBQFTW is it gorgeous, and hella fun to play! My first character, a lvl 23 Nord fighter, is about to finish the main quest line, and I'm already contemplating rolling a magic-user, possibly a Khajiit. The list of achievements I've racked up thus far is here. And ( Read more... )

That's a direct quote from The Boy after his first D&D session today. I'm still a relative newbie to D&D (I only started playing 2 years ago), but ever since I started, I've felt it was something he would enjoy and would really get into. Today was his opportunity, and he loved it! Thanks to ezrael for inviting us over and giving him the chance to ( Read more... )

Can anyone who has a Gamecube tell me if it's worth getting or not? The Boy has asked for one for his birthday, and I am woefully ignorant about any console system other than Xbox. He likes the Legend of Zelda games, but is there anything else worth getting that's *only* available for Gamecube, or is better on Gambecube than on Xbox?

So, last week, at open-gaming night at mysticalforest's house, jfrog78 brought a card game called Fluxx. It was so much fun, I laughed so hard I nearly had an aneurysm (in the words of mysticalforest). So Monday after work I picked up FamilyFluxx, which has fewer cards in the deck, and is more kid-friendly (for example, instead of having Death and War cards, there is Cake and Ice ( Read more... )

Spent the evening getting my laptop configured. Blew up after installing the virus program. Had a hell of a time troubleshooting that. Finally reverted to the last known good system restore and that fixed it. Like a dummy I installed it again - yup, the virus app was the problem. Did the system restore again and have decided to leave it alone for ( Read more... )