I Played It, Like, Twice... Only Trust Your Fists: The Side-Scrolling Beat-‘em-Up Vibes of Streets of Steel By Orrin Grey • January 6th, 2021 When Streets of Steel is at its best, it is tapping into my fondness for these types of games in a way that makes for innovative tabletop play, rather than just nostalgia.
Things Change: the Last Starfighter on Blu-Ray By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2020 Add The Last Starfighter to the list of movies I was positive I had seen but actually hadn’t.
Tasha’s Cauldron of Too Little, Too Late By Orrin Grey • December 17th, 2020 Dungeons & Dragons should be leading the way instead of lagging behind.
I Played It, Like, Twice... The Agony of Adaptation: Hellboy and the Perils of Fandom (and Kickstarter) By Orrin Grey • December 9th, 2020 For a while there, writing about Hellboy: The Board Game, about being a Hellboy fan, and what the franchise means to me as a creator, all felt too fraught.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Darkness of Unusual Size: The Sword-and-Sorcery Answer to Descent By Orrin Grey • November 27th, 2020 If Descent is what we’ve all come to expect from a modern high fantasy D&D-alike, then Massive Darkness is its lo-fi sword-and-sorcery equivalent.
Nearing the End of the World: Warning from Space (1956) By Orrin Grey • November 19th, 2020 Warning from Space spends 90% of its running time watching people waiting for things.
Feature Excerpt Dungeons & Dollhouses By Orrin Grey • October 20th, 2020 I’m not going to claim that society didn’t yet have those concepts, but I hadn’t been exposed to them. I came up in small towns in the Midwest; gender norms were pretty rigid.
I Played It, Like, Twice… Shadows on the Cave Wall: Finding Clues in Scooby-Doo: Betrayal at Mystery Mansion By Orrin Grey • October 9th, 2020 Scooby-Doo and Betrayal at House on the Hill are a match made in some kind of spooky heaven.
I Played It, Like, Twice… Lost in the Dark: Finding My Way to Descent During the Plague Times By Orrin Grey • September 3rd, 2020 “In a fit of COVID-induced mania and an effort to scratch that at-home D&D itch, I picked up not just Descent but several of the expansions.”
Your Future is Metal: The Industrial Nightmares of Shinya Tsukamoto By Orrin Grey • August 25th, 2020 It’s all happening at ten thousand miles per hour.
