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Once Upon A Time

Posted by Steve Darlington on Monday, March 1st, 2010

When people ask me what my favorite game is, I don’t have to think very hard. For me, a good game is like a photo album: full of memories. When you look at it, you remember all the people you enjoyed it with, and all those wonderful times you had. Plenty of good games do [...]

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2009 Game Cryer Holiday Gift Guide

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Welcome to the 2009 Game Cryer Gift Guide. We asked a number of bloggers and podcasters to give us suggestions for games and game products they’d suggest as gifts for your favorite gamer. Below is a list of links so you can read and hear what they had to say. Enjoy.

Combat Pad (Paizo Publishing)
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BattleTech: 25 Years of Art & Fiction

Friday, September 4th, 2009

“It all began in 1984.” So begins BattleTech: 25 Years of Art & Fiction, a 304-page, full color remembrance and salute to the fantastic art, written material and computer games that have been created within the BattleTech world. Twenty-five years ago, FASA Corporation published a game intended on capitalizing on the anime interest that was [...]

Run For Your Life, Candyman!

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

“Run, run, as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man.” Most of us heard these words at least once growing up, and may have had the passing thought that the cookie character looked rather tasty. In Run For Your Life, Candyman! the frosting depiction of a shoe is on the [...]

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 [...]