0 comments by Pete Schwab on 7/6/2015
In 2012, actor and internet personality Wil Wheaton created the web series TableTop for the Geek & Sundry YouTube network. Each week, Mr. Wheaton gathers a group of actors, YouTubers, game designers and other folks to play one or several board games. Using time-lapse to move past slower bits and colorful graphics to help explain and […]
0 comments by Pete Schwab on 6/10/2015
Episode 15 of iZombie, “Blaine’s World,” aired Tuesday night. It was the season finale of a show that has had some highs and lows, but ended strong with Tuesday’s story. The series’ creator, Rob Thomas, has done a great job making the show stand out from his previous effort, the hit show Veronica Mars. The […]
0 comments by Pete Schwab on 3/24/2015
“I can choose to help find justice for a fellow dead girl.” iZombie is the latest show from Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas. In some ways, the show serves as a spiritual (and supernatural) successor to Mr. Thomas’ previous show. It features a young, whip-smart and wise-cracking woman putting her brains and brawn to work […]
0 comments by Pete Schwab on 3/17/2015
When the Playstation 4 and Xbox One were being officially announced at the Electronics Entertainment Expo in 2013, Sony and Microsoft respectively had the job of convincing the owners of their then-current consoles that the time had come for a new generation of gaming hardware. The two companies took very different approaches to their sales […]
0 comments by Pete Schwab on 8/25/2014
This final season of True Blood has felt akin to watching an accountant balance a ledger. Each character and plot thread is being treated as an open account that needs to be squared before the end of the month. It feels very safe, comfortable, predictable, and frankly has not been very interesting to watch. Even […]
0 comments by Pete Schwab on 8/6/2014
Boyhood is a languidly told narrative film with a fantastic, if gimmicky, hook: The film was shot for three days every year over the span of 12 years. Richard Linklater is no stranger to using experimental techniques in mainstream films. In his breakout 1991 film, Slacker, he wove his camera through seemingly disconnected people just […]
0 comments by Pete Schwab on 7/30/2014
In 2000, Wizards of the Coast released the core rules for the then-new third version of Dungeons & Dragons. They chose to allow other companies to create content under a license with very liberal terms called the Open Game License (OGL for short). Third parties producing content for D&D was not a new concept, but […]
0 comments by Pete Schwab on 7/8/2014
Dungeons & Dragons has been a household brand name since the game’s meteoric rise to popularity in the early 1980s with the iconic Basic Dungeons & Dragons boxed set. TSR, Inc., the custodian of the property at that time, published a great product that was relatively easy to get into and understand but complex enough […]
