Utopia on the Tabletop  is poking its monstrous rainbow snout into the world. The online open access edition of the collection is now availa...

A slow games jam Sad Press Games and Vagrant Ludology ran this summer, acting as a strange attractor for an amazing cluster of utopia and so...

  We playtested this thing I apparently wrote (although I can't remember doing so) as a submission for the forthcoming Conjured Games S...

Originally published in Interzone  268 . Didn’t read much new fiction in 2016. Two bookend books, Adam Roberts’s The Thing Itself (Gollan...

Here's a good game: "stonily deny any knowledge of a person or cultural touchstone that you should, by virtue of your other cultura...

I have mostly been busy with slightly boring stuff lately, but here's a reminder that the RPG games now have their own site, which inclu...

There is a new free lightweight  high fantasy tabletop RPG  called Dungeons & Drapers added to the Games tab , whose rules may be  very ...

Just created a  sample play document  for the homebrew diceless YA Dystopian RPG Dreams & Dystopias . See Games tab for more.

I've given the games tab ^ a bit of a tidy, and added some content on integrating tabletop RPGs with gambling. I'm not sure if Vivi...

Legacy of a last attempt to persuade myself that chess is not dull. Chess is dull. pic.twitter.com/vGZDZsMKZL — Nick Harkaway (@Harkaway) ...

A while back I applied to write for a game -- what eventually became this game -- but I didn't get the job. But here's the sample m...

By Martis Amis. Lunar Lander is a game for owlish adolescents and gentle old hippies. It is qualitatively different from any other game. M...

... a novelette about the games people play, available today on Kindle, for about 99p. Stars, suggestions, reviews & feedback ...

What is gamification? You could describe it as the extension of principles of game design, with or without the language of games themselves...

By Joe Simpson. Touching the Void on Amazon. Joe Simpson's web site .  Excerpts: The voice kept urging me on, ‘Place-lift-brace-h...

Wait, what is this gamification ? "[...] online design that plays on people’s competitive instincts and often incorporates the use of...

Oisin Murphy-Lawless has written a piece for the Scottish Book Trust about Iain Banks and games , prompting me to excavate this nugget on th...