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.

Getting Down to the Essentials of Dungeons and Dragons Adventure

If you are just getting into playing Dungeons and Dragons, or want to help someone along who is, the new Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Kit has everything they need to play the world’s greatest roleplaying game including dice, basic rules, a starter adventure module and even a DM screen.

Rolling Along with the Hauntingly Beautiful FAR: Lone Sails

The deceptively simple FAR: Lone Sails game will have you lumbering across a beautiful but dead world in your behemoth of a vehicle, just trying to make it to the end of the road, wherever that may be for your little, lonely main character.

Deep, Dark Storytelling with Sanator: Scarlet Scarf

The Sanator: Scarlet Scarf game is a graphic novel with a dark story where you make decisions that affect the main character and the game’s world, sometimes in definitive ways. But it also has a unique mechanic that forces players to eventually see all possible paths, plus one hidden ending.

BATTLETECH Urban Warfare Takes The Fighting Downtown

The second official DLC for BATTLETECH, Urban Warfare brings fighting mechs into the big city, where everything is destructible and games of cat and mouse using the new ECM warfare modules can last for hours on end. It’s a brief but good addition to the core game.

Night Call Delivers Intense Noir Ambience

Set in the dark streets of Paris and seen through the rainy windows of a busy night shift taxi, you play a driver with a silver tongue in the Noir-like adventure Night Call. Talk to your passengers. Observe the world around you. And don’t get framed for your own attempted murder.