Delving Deeper?
Dungeon Delve - cover The dungeon is the archetypal location of adventure in the fantasy RPG. We all recognize that often the first games we played or the first gold we looted were found in the depths of dank caves populated by subterranean beasts or far underground in the secret experimental mountain...
Building Character
One of the core promises of the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons (when it was first unveiled in 2006) was a tight integration of the print products and digital tools. Features like a virtual game table for people to play on the Internet, a visualizer that allowed those with no art talent at all...
Guitar Hero Metallica: A Difficult Choice
A couple of weeks back, Metallica dropped the entire final track list for Guitar Hero Metallica onto their official website. It’s a great looking track list, containing all kinds of classic Metallica, alongside songs from folks like Bob Seger and Motorhead. Now, I should point out that I’ve...
David Jaffe Wants to Create Indiana Jones Game
David Jaffe always seems to be popping up in the gaming news. For a long while it was due to his excellent work on the God of War series, and more recently, it’s because he has something to say that is usually worth reading. In an interview with 1UP, Jaffe has let on that he would really like...
Capcom’s ‘Leaked’ Dead Rising 2 Trailer an Excellent Viral Example
By now, I think the entire internet has seen the video embedded in this post. It was released last week, and was rumored to be Dead Rising 2. When I first saw it, I thought that it looked far too polished to be a prank, especially coming as it did on the day the New York Comic Con began. As it turns...
Another Transformers Video Game? Why?
Well, I’m sure just about everyone has seen the new Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie trailer by now. If you couldn’t guess it on your own, there’s also been an announcement that there will be a tie-in video game to go along with it. My question is this: WHY?!? Why is it...
Verbal Components Episode #1
With the new site comes new features right? Well Verbal Components – the Analog Gamers podcast goes live today. A resurrection of the File-N-Forget podcast from Filefront’s now extinct Gaming Today news website and an integration of content previously covered there in “The Analog Gamer”...
E3 2009: Back to its Roots?
Well, it looks like the E3 hype is officially kicking off, and it’s just barely February. The Entertainment Software Association has released a list of the attendees that have been confirmed so far, and there are a few folks on there that didn’t show for last year’s iteration. (You...
Analog Gamers Launches
Well, I’ve been threatening to do this for a while, and the time is here.  I’m pulling together a few friends and creating a new gaming news site.  We’ll be covering gaming news from tabletop RPG’s to video games, and everything in between.  We’ll also have a recurring...