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The Future of Video-Games – The Open World

Every generation of games has it’s hallmark. The second generation of games systems were characterised by platformers such as Donkey Kong and the Mario games, the fifth generation, which included the PS1, Dreamcast, N64 and Windows 95 PCs saw the rise of first-person shooters, changing the face of gaming. The sixth generation, that is the [...]

June 20th, 2009 | Category: Computing, Culture, Gaming, Non-RPG, RPG Bloggers | 3 comments

D&DI: Digital Revolution or Damp Squib?

The advert of the ‘Digital Age’ has been heralded by various soothsayers of the tech and media industries as the greatest revolution in printing since the invention of moveable type in the 15th century.
They have a point: typesetting is no longer a time consuming process, mistakes are easier to correct, distribution of the product is [...]

January 7th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: 4E D&D, Computing, Culture, RPG Bloggers | 10 comments

The Web 2.0 Generation

Twelve years ago, I knew exactly two buildings that were connected to the internet, household wireless internet connections were non-existent and at certain times of the day, your internet connection detectably slowed down as the server loads increased.
By 2005, in less then a decade, internet connections had become cheap, wireless routers are common, not only [...]

December 30th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Computing, Politics | Leave a comment

Rolling Mobile

Lets face it, as much as we all like our giant collections of dice, this is the 21st century. We have out game books on laptops and hand-held devices, we can play Play By Mail with someone on the opposite side of the world with turns taking a matter of hours instead of days and [...]

December 21st, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Advice/Tools, Gaming, News & Reviews, RPG Bloggers, iPhone | One comment

Wiki-wiki-wah

So as some folks might have noticed, Causal Gamer is in the process of disappearing into the void where old blogs go to die, and it’s being replaced with Games of State, a self-hosted Wordpress site.

One advantage of this move is that I host my own Wiki (amongst other things).

I’ve wanted to have a go [...]

December 10th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Computing, Gaming, RPG Bloggers | 5 comments