Talkin’ About Stuff By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 19th, 2026 Catchin’ up on some TV and movies.
Noah's Beat Box One Dream to Rule Them All By Noah Springer • January 16th, 2026 My eyes glaze over and again, my dreams dance on gilded waves, gliding towards Rivendell.
Totally Generic No One Has Actually Read Lord of the Rings By Natasha Ochshorn • April 16th, 2025 It is really easy to lie about having read a book that many people are familiar with but many fewer accurately remember.
Totally Generic 11 Alternative Shows I Thought of While Watching Rings of Power By Natasha Ochshorn • December 6th, 2024 I spend a lot of my time watching the show imagining what I would do differently.
Feature Excerpt Hidetaka Miyazaki’s Middle Earth By Jamie Redgate • April 29th, 2021 How does one go about making a modern fantasy touchstone?
Lore’d of the Rings: The Horror of Knowledge By David Shimomura • November 27th, 2018 They say knowledge is power, but sometimes it is just isolating.
Middle Earth Role Playing By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 12th, 2018 Vintage RPG journeys to the Shire to check out Iron Crown Enterprise’s Middle Earth Roleplaying.
We Need a Real Nemesis System By David Shimomura • March 13th, 2017 “What if any game forced you to own up to the potentially thousands of people you may have wronged?”
Verse and Controller By J. Stephen Addcox • February 2nd, 2015 J. Stephen Addcox examines the importance of poetry in videogames like Gone Home, Ni No Kuni, Skyrim and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.
Dollar Store Conan By Michael Edwards • April 3rd, 2013 Michael Edwards braves the schlocky realms of c-grade knock-off fantasy films.
