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Part of preparing a game for release includes writing copy for the back of the box or book. It's not something we take lightly . . . it's part of the very first impression a potential player gets of the title. So it has to be interesting, impressive, and memorable!...

Monday evening I'll be on the red-eye to London (does it count as a red-eye when the flight is long enough that I can sleep?), and thence soon after to Birmingham for the UK Games Exposition. I've enjoyed this show every time I have visited. This year I'll be running...

I'm working on it . . .  Last year was an unusual and very awful year. We made it through! But it's not a story that fits well into the standard Stakeholder format. It took me a while to get up the nerve to start, and it has taken me...

Steve Jackson Games produces geeky games, meaning we're a bunch of geeks. I've steered the GURPS ship for 31 years – and been a gamer for 47 years – making me a geek among geeks. A couple of physics degrees qualify me as a nerd, too. I paint my portrait...

We're rapidly approaching convention season! As I've begun mentally preparing, I thought it might be fun to see if anyone had a single tip or suggestion for getting the most out of the cons you go to that isn't one of the obvious ones ("get enough sleep," "shower every day,"...

I'm back with another post about music.   This time I want to point you toward an entire genre of music that I've recently discovered. It's called Dungeon Synth and it fits right into the vibes I talked about in my previous fantasy music entry. I don't know why it...

It's mid-May, which means tickets to our Gen Con events are now available for purchase!   This year, we're hosting more events than ever before, with 97 on the schedule. At the time of this publication, around 50 of those are already sold out, but you still have time to...

This Kickstarter project closes soon. It's a social deduction game in which you are all members of a cult. Sound like it might be your kind of thing? Fnord! Playtesters have compared it favorably to Blood on the Clocktower, and that's high praise indeed. I quote: "We are The Order...