Check Your Accounts For Fishy Activity
Whatever you may expect to read on a Wikipedia entry for a random fish – say, a black neon tetra – you quite probably aren't prepared for a subheading entitled "Credit Card Fraud." The whole entry is worth reading (it's short!), but the summary is that a YouTube channel rigged...
Gamehole Con - And A Big Announcement!
Gamehole Con is coming up very soon: October 16-19 in Madison, Wisconsin. As usual, SJ Games will be there to run games and enjoy your company. And, of course, the company of Madison native John Kovalic, he of the muskrat and the many, many Munchkin cards. But this year we've...
So Many Possible Secret Lairs, So Little Time For Global Plots
For nearly 40 years, architectural critic John Margolies photographed attractions and buildings along the roads of the United States. The Public Domain Review has a neat article about how his pictorial archive was donated to the Library of Congress, which put the material in the public domain (although individual artwork...
Prepping For Halloween Gaming!
Like many geeks and gamers, our household has always loved Halloween. Candy, get-togethers, candy, spooky stuff, candy . . . what's not to like? Since 2025 has certainly been a stressful year for us, I thought it'd be fun for our household to revive our "Halloween gaming" spirit (which I...
Charming Cats Have Arrived On Warehouse 23!
Purrfect Potions, a magical dice game from Steve Jackson Games, is now available for pre-order on Warehouse23.com! Become whimsical witches brewing elixirs alongside their clever – and often chaotic – cat familiars. On a player's turn, both the moon die and cat dice are rolled and the felines will...
You Like Fighting Fantasy As Much As We Do!
A couple of weeks ago, after delays and hiccups we're still learning from, the slipcases for the first set of Fighting Fantasy's triumphant return to the United States arrived (as we proclaimed in a Kickstarter update). Since then, we've been steadily shipping the thousands of orders to eager fans. Those...
"Edited By Steve Jackson" . . . Wait, What?
A lot of companies have produced what might be seen as uncharacteristic products in the past. For example, Alfa Romeo – yes, the car company – once briefly manufactured stoves. And Mitsubishi, another well-known car company, was formed from the automotive division of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, perhaps best known as the...
The Joy (And Curse) Of A Large Library
As I noted in August, we've been hard at work at (top-secret) Fighting Fantasy stuff. I'm starting to look at 2026 plans and found myself needing to figure out what to track down used copies of for research purposes. So imagine my surprise when I discovered that I already owned...