Papa Llama | August 31, 2009
Continued from “Comic-Con Excerpts: The Joker’s Relationship with Batman.”
Concluding our report on the San Diego Comic-Con International panel “Is the Joker a Psychopath? You Decide!” which our own Papa Llama, in his secret identity as psychology professor Dr. Travis Langley, moderated and co-organized.
Other panelists: Dr. Robin Rosenberg (therapist and editor – The Psychology of Superheroes); Jerry Robinson [...]
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Nick | August 31, 2009
The Paladin was always “that guy” in the 2nd edition campaigns I played. I remember having to act like an idiot to stick with their strict code of conduct. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the proper way you had to play them, but it was fun.
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Papa Llama | August 29, 2009
Continuing Papa Llama’s report of his San Diego Comic-Con International panel with fellow psychologist Dr. Robin Rosenberg, comic book writer Steve Englehart, The Dark Knight producer Michael Uslan, and Batman himself, Adam West:
After Steve Englehart discussed via telephone why he felt that the Joker is insane, I asked my fellow panelists for quick thoughts off [...]
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Nick | August 27, 2009
That’s right. You get captured by aliens. I thought it might have been a hoax at first, like the aliens were really people in disguises as kind of an homage to the idea that the moon landing was fake. Very quickly that idea left my head. So how is this fifth episode of DLC for Fallout 3? Let me tell you all about it.
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Alex Langley | August 26, 2009
Dante’s Inferno is a stylish action game in the vein of Devil May Cry and God of War, by EA games, and is loosely based on the epic poem of the same name. You play as a man named Dante as he treks through hell to find his girlfriend. How sweet!
I had some hands on [...]
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Tags: Dante, Dante's Inferno, Devil May Cry, Exclusive Gameplay, San Diego Comic-Con, SDCC 09, Vergil
Nick | August 24, 2009
The Fighter has always been one of the principal aspects of your basic party in D&D. He’d be the one guy that doesn’t die during the first adventure of your 2nd Edition campaign.
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Nick | August 22, 2009
Blizzard has been scarce with details on this new feature, likely to reveal details on it today at Blizzcon. I feel like I’ve got a deep enough understanding of the game that I’m going to give you a couple of theories about what it does.
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Tags: Blizzcon, Mastery, MMO, MMORPG, World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Alex Langley | August 21, 2009
Today at Blizzcon, the annual convention held by the creators of World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft, the new expansion for WoW was announced- World of Warcraft: Cataclysm! Here are some highlights of the new features of the expansion pack:
Quote from Blizzard staff
Q: What is the story of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm?
A: While the [...]
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Tags: Blizzard, Cataclysm, Expansion Pack, Goblins, Worgen, World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, WoW, Wow expansion
Alex Langley | August 20, 2009
You Can’t Do That on the Internet- Facts about Bears
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Nick | August 20, 2009
Nick & Marko’s Interview with David Mack: We mentioned a while back that David Mack visited my university. Marko and I conducted an interview with him that was about an hour and the university’s radio station cut it down to nine minutes with commercials included. I present to you the full awesomeness of our David Mack interview. BEHOLD!
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Tags: Alias, Brian Michael Bendis, collage, college, Daredevil, David Mack, Echo, Image Comics, Jessica Jones, Kabuki, Marvel Comics, Matt Murdock, New Avengers, The Workday Comic, White Tiger
Nick | August 17, 2009
I started writing this article with the intent of just reviewing over Pathfinder again after having a better grasp of 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons. It ended up turning into a pretty massive document, so I’ve instead turned it into a 12-part weekly series comparing the classic 11 classes from the 3rd Edition Player’s Handbook as compared to Pathfinder, 4th Edition, and some other tabletop roleplaying games.
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Alex Langley | August 12, 2009
City of Heroes is a superhero-based MMO that has an upcoming expansion pack, Going Rogue, which will allow players to explore the sliding scale of good and evil through their actions, rather than simply designating a character as good or evil and being done with it. Here’s some gameplay footage from the San Diego Comic-Con [...]
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Alex Langley | August 11, 2009
Batman: Arkham Asylum is an upcoming action-adventure stealth game developed by Eidos, about none other than Die Fledermaus man himself, BATMAN.
After some time with the game at Comic-Con, and more time with the X-box live demo, I’ve come to the conclusion that this game is awesome.
Even if the game was horrible, I’d still be excited [...]
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Tags: Batman, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Comc Books, DC comics, Gaming, Joker, Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, San Diego Comic-con 09, SDCC 09, video games
