Role Playing Games-Articles on Role Playing Games

Game Of Thrones and the paradoxes of adaptation

Filed under: Features , PC , Sony PlayStation 3 , Retro , Microsoft Xbox 360 , RPGs This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. The role-playing game structure is, in many ways, built as an adaptation. What is Dungeons & Dragons if not an attempt to ...

Freedom Force: Superhero role-playing done right

Filed under: Features , PC , Retro , RPGs This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. The Avengers ' huge success in its first week of release may represent the pinnacle of the superhero takeover of mainstream culture. Superhero comics have long been ...

Playing a game-changing role during the Games

The London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has grown rapidly with success. Cisco House, a unique experience near the Olympic Park, explores Cisco’s role in helping LOCOG, and many other organisations, innovate.

What if You Could Pay for College by Playing Games Online?

Cash-strapped students are always looking for new ways to pay for college, but they also spend lots of time playing games online. So why not combine the two? New social platform Grantoo does exactly that, allowing students to earn tuition money through virtual gaming tournaments. The San Francisco-based startup, founded by best friends Dimiti Sillam and Mikhael Naayem, invites college students ...

Robert Pattinson for Hunger Games?

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