Sep 30, 2016

Modern Board Games

We talk about the resurgence of board games. And not like Monopoly, Scrabble, or Clue. We’re talking the genre of Modern Board games that has exploded lately, beginning with Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, and Dominion.

Beej isn’t much a board game player--he prefers simpler “party games.”...

Sep 23, 2016

Massively Multiplayer Online Games

In this episode:

• Our history with MMOs! And y’all, we have some history.
• We both game to MMOs early in our lives (hooray for the late 90s!). Beej and his friends Ultima Online, while Void was on the other side of the coin and was an EverQuest guy. Despite our differences in early...

Sep 16, 2016

The Final Fantasy Series, Part 3

In this episode:

• Our very first listener-feedback episode! We asked you all for questions related to Final Fantasy, and y’all did not disappoint! We got so many good questions that we had to dedicate the ENTIRE EPISODE to this Q&A. Rather than spoil the goodness for you, just hit the...

Sep 9, 2016

The Final Fantasy Series, Part 2

In this episode:

• The Final Fantasy series has lots of sequels and spinoffs that aren’t part of the mainline, numbered series. There are some sequels, some movies, and some mashups like Kingdom Hearts that just take the FF characters and give them a new world to explore together. Some...

Sep 2, 2016

The Final Fantasy Series, Part 1

In this episode:

• Our history with Final Fantasy!
• Beej actually started with FF1, but was so young that he didn’t understand much of what he was doing. He played IV and VI (II and III to you 90s-kid Americans out there) from the video store over and over and over and over again.
• Void...