Part of a series I recently discovered on YouTube. I won't show them all at once.



1 of 3: Liftoff

One of my favorite games of all time is COSMIC ENCOUNTER, which dates back to the 70s. The game has been reprinted many times by various publishers-- Eon, Games Workshop, Mayfair, and Avalon Hill. The latest edition, by Fantasy Flight Games, gets high marks by Tom and now I'm TOTALLY JONESING to buy CE for myself, even if I have the Mayfair and Avalon Hill editions already! Sheesh! Such a dilemma!

(warning: contains sequences not intended for children or office spaces)



There's nothing like that holiday feeling.

Hmmph... they never had stuff this cool when I was a lad!

I know Joe Steadman from the old days of the Dice Tower, which I would sometimes call in to. He's a straightforward kind of guy; a wargamer, cop, and father of four (soon five). He was the "wargame voice" for Tom Vasel's "Euro Voice" right up until Episode 50 of the DT. He has since moved to Michigan and become a policeman (he had been a minister of some sort). I was glad to see that Joe has taken to the airwaves (cablewaves?) again with a Gaming Journal of his own, this one focusing on wargames. Instead of an audio program, the Gaming Journal is done in video and is available on You Tube. You can see the full gamut of the episodes HERE.



There's no hype here, I like the honesty and candor being displayed, and the fact that he brings his wife and kids into the production in spots.

Good work, Joe!

Some things speak for themselves...

Thusly:

I noticed this on BRASS GOGGLES, and being something of a VSF slobbering fanboy, had to post it.

(one day late)

As Dave Starry points out, My Kung Fu sucks..

John W. Cornwell is a Maker hero

The maker of the giant potato gun weighs in with a small dorm fridge that will actually launch a beer at you, using a remote.


Robotic Beer Launching Refrigerator - The top video clips of the week are here

Read his article on how to make a beer launching fridge.



I think if it got marketed, it would probably be a runaway best seller-- but I can just see the lawsuits from some drunk getting beaned on the head because he wasn't coordinated enough to catch a flying beer properly.

By Chuck Workman

Multiple images (more than 500) in a very short time. It's excellent!

Phil's Troy

Phil Viverito, G.O.H. at Cold Wars 2007 and the author of Classical Hack, Homeric Hack and Knight Hack, as well as the president of LMW Works publishing, is also a terrain building genius (don't believe me? go see his Siege of Carthage game he put on for me at CW). His version of TROY (used for his HOMERIC HACK rules) was recently featured in a documentary.

Check it out! (you will need Quicktime installed)