Gen Con: The Party's Over
The biggest gaming convention of the year is over. The annual Gen Con conference is one of the few places where basement Dungeons & Dragons players hobnob with Star Wars Stormtroopers, live action role-players chat with collectable trading card maniacs,...
Gen Con: Best Swag
The award for best swag giveaways at this year's Gen Con convention has to go to software developer Cryptic Studios for their trivia challenge prizes. In order to promote Champions Online (an online game based on superhero comics) they gave...
Gen Con: Gygaxian Charity
Ever seen a 6 foot tall, 20-sided die? You have now. Charitable gamers could donate spare dice into the huge piece outside the main Gen Con hall. The dice filled die sold for $1,500 as part of a charity auction....
Gen Con: Wizards of the Coast
At a Q&A yesterday gaming giant Wizards of the Coast, publishers of Dungeons and Dragons, ran down its slate of product releases for the next year. Many of the attendees got to hear about the Player's Handbook 2 (planned for...
Gen Con: Houses of Cards
Every year Gen Con has Cardhalla. This year, the for-charity event is in its 10th running. People donate old cards from various games and construct large buildings out of them. Tonight everyone brings spare change and the city of cards...
Gen Con: The Bathtub Boardgame
Duck! Duck! Go! is a bathtub rubber ducky race boardgame. Draw cards that tell you how to move, tag buoys, and make your way to the drain in the center. Collectable rubber duckies, a changeable game board and rules kids...
Gen Con: Back to Basics
To honor the late Gary Gygax (creator of Dungeons & Dragons), Gen Con is hosting a series of hourly role-playing games called the "Tower of Gygax" -- all using the creator's first edition Dungeons & Dragons rules (the game is...
Gen Con: Belle of The Ball
Gen Con is in full swing and already one of the belles of this ball is budding luxury nerd product company Geek Chic. They've brought a table with them that brings casual walkers to a stunned stare. The Sultan Gaming...
Gen Con: Opening Day
Gen Con has begun. The Indianapolis convention --dubbed "The Best Four Days in Gaming"-- started today. But it's not all pock marked teens looking to spend what little cash they earned at their part-time minimum wage job. A whopping 88%...
Here Comes GenCon
Over the next four days, Forbes.com reporter Klaus Kneale will be attending Gen Con Indy, one of the longest running, biggest and baddest gaming conferences in the world. And he'll be filing reports on all the coolness --and weirdness-- right...
America's Best Colleges
Competition is good. Choosing a four-year undergraduate college is one of the biggest decisions a typical American family can make. And for too many years, information about the quality of American higher education has been monopolized by one publication, U.S....
Attack of the Show: iPhone 3G
It's been one month since the release of Apple's much-hyped iPhone 3G. How is it selling? What do users think? And where does Apple go from here? Last night I appeared on G4's Attack of the Show to discuss.
The Olympic BSoD
A blue screen of death at the Olympic opening ceremonies -- ouch. Blogger rivercool has more photos. clipped from www.smh.com.au Turns out that Bill Gates was not the only famous Microsoft identity to be spotted at the Olympic opening ceremony....
