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iDuel Online

Posted by Jonathan Holmberg on Friday, April 30th, 2010

iDuel Online by Namazu Studios is a recently released, free game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. In it, players create and equip avatars that they use to battle other players via WiFi, 3G or Edge. In duels, players earn credits and Match Points for upgrading their characters, and have the option to [...]

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Terrors From Beyond

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Terrors From Beyond is Chaosium, Inc.’s latest anthology of scenarios for Call of Cthulhu. It brings together six adventures set primarily in the 1920s, but with one in 1930 – hence the 1920s and 1930s tag on the cover. What sets this collection apart from others is that each scenario is a one-shot, a scenario [...]

Days of Steam

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Stratamax Games’ Days of Steam is a train game set during the “age of steam.” It cannot of course call itself Age of Steam as there is already a well-known and well regarded board game of that name, but the themes are very similar. The players lay track to create routes between towns and by [...]

The Dying of St. Margaret’s

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Scenarios for Pelgrane Press’ clue orientated RPG of Lovecraftian investigative horror, Trail of Cthulhu, fall into two camps. The first is the Pulp style of play, where the player characters are tough and capable of facing a Mythos threat and withstanding its Sanity-blasting terror. Most Call of Cthulhu scenarios are like this, and to date [...]

Lovecraftian Tales from the Table

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

What if you played through two of the hobby’s most highly regarded campaigns? What if those two campaigns were for Call of Cthulhu, the classic RPG of Lovecraftian investigative horror? And what if you recorded every single session of those two campaigns being played through? Well, this exactly what has been done with Lovecraftian Tales [...]