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COLUMN: @Play: Roguelikes And OD&D

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2008-05-16 16:00:10 by John Harris in GameSetWatch
Play' is a kinda-sorta bi-weekly column by John Harris which discusses the history, present and future of the Roguelike dungeon exploring genre As you may have figured out by now, roguelikes are one of my favorite types of computer games. It's not that I hate other kinds of games, or even other RPGs. But roguelikes, good ones at least, provide...
 
Tags: roguelike player, player, roguelike player talk, game, pen-and-paper game, games, computer games, roguelike, game gygax
 
 
 
 
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An hour of hot D&D 4th edition insider info and some other (audible) stuff

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2007-12-06 10:08:00 by gnome in the random Gnomes' random Lair
Yax was kind enough to include Gnome's Lair in Dungeon Mastering 's Top 50 RPG websites and, being the sensitive little gnome I am, I sort of felt the obligation to blog about something vaguely related. Failing to come up with a Top 60 tabletop gaming blogs piece and ultimately ignoring the pleas for a Naked Cthulhu Gaming guide, I had a quick...
 
Tags: 4th edition, include gnome, gnome, instant campaign builder, velvet dice bag, super mario galaxy, naked cthulhu, rpg websites, minutes
 
 
 
 
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D&D Legend Dies at 69

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2008-03-05 00:18:00 by Zee Salahuddin in That VideoGame Blog
Long before bleary-eyed WoW-aholics sat slashing away at the minions of Blackrock or before Bhaal challenged the very existence of the Forgotten Realms, there was the paper-and-pen model for role-playing games. The table-top Dungeons & Dragons concept was created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1967. Earlier today, Gygax died of health...
 
Tags: gygax, gary gygax, gygax shortly, titles, dragons concept, dragons, original concepts, oxford english dictionary, recent titles
 
 
 
 
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5 Thing 1Up Learned From D&D

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2008-03-10 02:21:49 by William in Gaming Today
The death of Gary Gygax was certainly sad for anyone who played D&D at one time or another. Fortunately, Gygax will be remembered for what D&D has done for society and gaming as a whole. We may not realize it, but video games have been heavily influenced by the pen and paper past of gaming. 1Up came up with a list of 5 primary things they...
 
Tags: 1up, gameplay, 1up posts, gameplay footage, gygax, gary gygax, emergent gameplay, rework cleave mechanics, poor stories suck
 
 
 
 
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WarCry Network : Latest News: Game Industry Owes a Lot to D&D

2008-04-23 20:29:09 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
Gamasutra editor Alvan Monje has spent time looking into D&D founder Gary Gygax's legacy. Monje's contention is that RPGs and MMORPGs owe a debt of gratitude to Gygax as their basic and foundational structure is based on D&D theoretical concepts, if not actual ones This past March, Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, passed away at...
 
Tags: gary gygax, founder gary gygax, gygax, co-creator dave arneson, dungeons, co-creator, dragons, pen-and-paper dungeons, dragons directly
 
 
 
 
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Study: Girls Prefer 2-D Games

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2007-12-18 14:48:51 by Earnest Cavalli in Game | Life
A recent study conducted at Georgia Tech University concluded that girls overwhelmingly prefer 2-D games, while boys prefer their games in three dimensions The study, which placed 13- and 14-year-old boys and girls in front of a Nintendo 64 emulator and asked them to play and judge games, found that 70% of the girls polled would rather play 2-D...
 
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Improved 360 Controller Will Fix Your D-Pad IssuesUnless You're in North America

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2008-08-21 17:36:26 by Jonathan in Gaming Today
Anyone who has tried to play any game on the Xbox 360 using the D-pad knows one thing: the D-pad sucks. Thankfully, it seems Microsoft has finally listened to all those complaints and produced a new controller with a D-pad that can register 32 different directions. That should at least reduce the number of accidental deaths Im sure weve all had...
 
Tags: d-pad, controller, d-pad functionality, wireless ps3 controller, d-pad sucks, north america, xbox, online play, pro evolution football
 
 
 
 
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Noobz, C+D release Pandora's Battery - unbricker for all PSPs

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2007-08-26 09:33:00 by new0rder in PSP blog
All for one, and one for all. A project promulgated under the collective Noobz - more officially branded as N00bz! - has given birth to another monumental development in homebrew: a PSP unbricker for every Sony PlayStation Portable. In short summary, it would perform the following You run a program on a homebrew-enabled PSP that will convert a...
 
Tags: battery, standard psp battery, psp, unbricker, noobz, psp slim, psp unbricker, ordinary battery, release
 
 
 
 
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Todd talks D&D on Level Up

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2008-03-19 15:09:06 by gstaff in Bethesda Blog
Two weeks ago, the gaming world lost one of its most influential creators in Gary Gygax one of the co-creators of Dungeons & Dragons. Over on Newsweeks gaming blog, Level Up , NGai Croal has interviewed several folks from the videogame industry to hear how D&D impacted their lives both personally and professionally. Today, Todd Howards interview...
 
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The MMO Report: D&D Online, WoW, Age of Conan & Wizard 101

2008-05-31 01:51:01 by aDub in VideoGame2Play