Author: John Breeden II

John has spent his journalism career covering just about everything, from small-town meetings and crime scenes to Capitol Hill and the U.S. Congress. He got his start writing about games and technology with a computer column called On the Chip Side, which grew to more than 1 million in circulation and ran in newspapers across several states. Today, John is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek and many other publications, and he writes a regular technology and government column for Nextgov/FCW and hosts security and educational webinars for FedInsider. He is also the founder of the Tech Writers Bureau and the chief editor of GameIndustry.com. He still loves disappearing into games, whether that means crawling through Baldur’s Gate dungeons deep into the night or planning one more big offensive in the latest wargame.

Acquisitions Incorporated Adds Silly Spice to Dungeons and Dragons Campaigns

The Acquisitions Incorporated supplement for Dungeons and Dragons is packed with the same kind of wacky, over the top corporate humor found in the famous Penny Arcade podcasts and comics of the same name. If you love those, then this is your game.

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Finally Grabs RPG Glory

Plagued with problems at launch, Pathfinder: Kingmaker finally is patched up and refined enough to offer an interesting role-playing and kingdom management hybrid game that is as fun to play as it is unique.

Lovecraft Lives in The Sinking City

With more than a little bit of a nod to H. P. Lovecraft, The Sinking City adventure game provides one of the truest representations of a Call of Cthulhu pen and paper role-playing game, and all the positives and negatives that entails.

Serious Missions Need High Caliber Gear

The Kaliber Gaming HVER PRO keyboard and the Forkus II mouse combination from IOGEAR look amazing, and are designed to help gamers shred their high scores without also breaking their wallets. They also happen to brighten up any gaming setup.

Murder, Motorcycles and Freaker Fun in Days Gone

Battling zombie-like freakers, rival gangs and murderous cultists from the back of your custom hog is just par for the course in Days Gone, one of the most unique open-world survival horror adventures to come out in years.

Adventure on The High Seas With Ghosts of Saltmarsh

The Ghosts of Saltmarsh Dungeon and Dragons supplement is one of the most ambitious for Wizards of the Coast, updating classic modules like Danger at Dunwater into fifth edition masterpieces while adding new rules and settings to help launch exciting seafaring adventures.

GiN’s Complete E3 Expo 2019 Coverage

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3 as it is commonly called, was another exciting event this time around. Although the show was not quite as crazy as in previous years, and there were a few notable absences, there were plenty of surprises, and lots of gaming news, sometimes from unexpected and interesting places.

Freezing Out The Fun in Fade to Silence

With a wintery world, beautiful graphics and horrifying monsters, Fade to Silence could have been one of the most unique survival titles in years. Unfortunately, poor design choices and outright bugs condemn it to being a decidedly less than average adventure.

A Perfect Pointing and Clicking Apocalypse

Don’t Escape: 4 Days to Survive is an old school style point and click adventure that tries to stay grounded with real world solutions to the game’s many problems, while also presenting a compelling and somewhat epic sci-fi story.

He’s Got The Whole Virtual World In His Hands

Adam Berenzweig of CTRL-labs has been working for most of his life on helping humans and machines communicate with one another. His latest project is a revolutionary interface which will add much more of our bodies into virtual realities.