Blades of Time – if only I could rewind time
Sometimes a game ends up sitting in my rental queue for a while and I completely forget about it until it ships. Usually it’s a Continue Reading
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Free At Last – Wheel of Time
When I was 11, back in 1990, my father brought home a big blue book. I liked the art on the front quite a bit, Continue Reading
The Secret Sauce, Part 3
Welcome once again to The Secret Sauce, Dorkadia’s irregularly scheduled trip into the winding depths of roleplaying. Last time around, we went through some basic Continue Reading
What Worries Me About Gearbox
I, like many of us here at Dorkadia, think Gearbox Software is pretty nifty. They’ve made some excellent games, including Borderlands 2, which is rightfully Continue Reading
Cthulhu Saves the World – Fhtagn!
The world may have been spared from yet another apocalyptic prophecy, but that doesn’t mean that another isn’t just around the corner. When the world Continue Reading
Strange Days Have Found Us
HOST: So Dan, are you looking forward to the New Year? DAN: Not really. I mean what’s the point? Nothing changes New Years day. The Continue Reading
End of Year: Search results and… WTF?
We here at Dorkadia are so happy that you found us on our small parking lot of the interwebs, and are always curious what search Continue Reading
Who says dogs can’t fly?
A few weeks ago I wrote a lot words, pretty much all positive, about The Megas and their most recent album, History Repeating: Blue. Just Continue Reading
An initiation into The Secret World
The Secret World recently converted from a subscription model to a free to play with a subscription option. Surprisingly, and completely unlike Star Wars The Continue Reading
Day(s) off!
Sorry for going dark – we’re all in our post giftmas comas. Everyone enjoy your new games, movies, books, and be safe in your travels. Continue Reading
One Internet to Rule Them All
It’s been a very Hobbitastic week around here. We’ve had a great look at LotR games, both video and roleplaying, an essay on the original works of Continue Reading
LEGO Lord of the Rings – One does not simply block into Mordor
Actually, LEGO seems to be able to do whatever they want with a popular franchise and make it magical and entertaining. I can’t find many Continue Reading
The Hobbit – A Totally Expected Awesome Movie
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” Whenever I hear that phrase, I hear it in my father’s voice. My father and Continue Reading
On the Shoulders of Giants
About three thousand years ago, when fellow Dorkadia staffer Hannah and I first became friends, J.R.R. Tolkien came up in conversation, I was first informed Continue Reading
Civil War: Whose side are you on?
Last night I was browsing Netflix and found Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, and booted up season two. Episode one? Maria Hill is trying to recruit Continue Reading
Orcs Must Die! 2 Review
This is universally known, but it bears repeating: Steam sales are unfair. As a human being that remembers a time when the internet didn’t exist Continue Reading
The Secret Sauce, Part II
Welcome back to Dorkadia’s intermittently continuing series, “The Secret Sauce,” discussing how you can get a little bit of tasty roleplaying into your gaming experience. Continue Reading
Who are The Boys?
The Boys is one of my favorite comics from the last five or so years, written by Garth Ennis and with art primarily by Darick Continue Reading
Hawken – The mech combat you always wanted
Hawken is the perfect example of a game I didn’t know that I needed to play. I was genuinely unaware that arena combat between large Continue Reading
OMG I’VE NEVER SEEN TOYSTORY!!!111oneoneone
Some things can only be experienced in their time. Years later, after the zeitgeist for a particular phenomenon has passed, it often rings hollow, or Continue Reading
Young Justice: quite whelming
With the line up, the title of the show, and pretty much any simple guess – you would think the tv show Young Justice would Continue Reading