Gaming - The Cerebral Kitchen

Is 3D Printed Terrain the Future, or just a passing Fad?

I have to admit, I bought my second 3D printer (an Ender 3 Pro) with the sole purpose of using it to print terrain for a Pathfinder game that I am the GM

Gaming

A short review of Destiny 2

Blizzard is providing Destiny 2 as a free download this month. So, since I was a Destiny addict, I decided to give it a try. I played it for about 8 hours yesterday.

Classic Arcade Games

My first arcade cabinet project - part two

I did some more troubleshooting today and I have to admit that I'm a little embarrassed. I took the power supply and harness out of the cabinet so I could work on it

Classic Arcade Games

My first arcade cabinet project - part one

I woke up early Saturday morning so I could get started before it got too hot (it still smells bad from having the dead rat in it, so we're keeping it in the carport to air out). I plugged in the cab and the speakers made a crackling sound for a few seconds and then went silent.

Classic Arcade Games

Pac-Man Fever - My newest electronics project - Part 1 - Maggie and the dead rat

Every story has a beginning. The story of how I acquired my first arcade cabinet is no exception. It started when I was contacted by an old high school friend on Facebook. She

Pathfinder

Easy and inexpensive bases for paper and cardboard RPG miniatures

I print my own miniatures for use with Pathfinder. I buy the PDF version of the Pathfinder pawns and print out the pages that I need to use, cutting and gluing the pieces

Pathfinder

The Adventure Begins

We just had our second gathering to play Pathfinder (Pathfinder is based on the D&D 3.5 Edition Rules). We started playing the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path last

Michael

One input, two different results

As if to give life to itself, two separate careers started as a simple "choose your own adventure" game on early 1980's home computers. The setting In the early 80's, myself

Programming

One day, work and school will no longer feel like "work"

When I was in my early twenties, I used to imagine a future where work and school were no longer considered "work". I envisioned a scenario where kids and young adults

Gaming

Game Review - Destiny for XBox One

There are an enormous number of game reviews for Bungie’s Destiny game written by professional journalists who get paid for writing game reviews, so I will try to give a personal approach

Gaming

Game Review: Ori and the Blind Forest

One of the reasons I chose the XBox Bundle that I did (besides the 1TB hard drive) was because of the games it included. One of those games was Ori and the Blind

Gaming

Game Review: Valiant Hearts: The Great War

One of this month’s Games for Gold on XBox Live is Valiant Hearts: The Great War. I downloaded it last night and started playing. The game takes you through the lives of

Gaming

I Finally took the plunge and bought an XBox One

I’ve been a very happy owner of XBox since the first one was released. I bought the original XBox and the XBox 360 on release day. I have watched the dashboard change

Gaming

Playing ESO and Getting more mileage from my Dell XPS 420

I bought my desktop PC in 2007. I bought a Dell XPS 420 with 2 GB of RAM in it. It’s a quad core Pentium i5 running at 1.2 GHz. A

Gaming

X-Wing Miniatures Game

I finally bought my own copy of the X-Wing miniatures game yesterday. Laurie was kind enough to play with me last night. It turns out she really enjoyed the game so I’ll

First Gaming Systems

When I was a kid, our first home gaming machine was the Telstar Pong console. I think it had four “games” and three levels of difficulty (the size of the “paddle” got smaller)