Monthly Archives: November 2013

No gaming session this week

We’re not meeting this week, because of Thanksgiving; we’ll be back on December 5th with  a Symposium discussing the game Gone Home.

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Gaming Session: Minecraft, November 21, 2013

The last Thursday of the month is Thanksgiving, so we’re doing Minecraft a week earlier. You know the drill: Thursday at 9:30 EST / 6:30 PST, server is minecraft.bactrian.org, voice chat over mumble.  

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Gaming Session: Awesomenauts, November 14, 2013

We didn’t manage to play Awesomenauts as planned a few weeks ago, so we’re going to try again this week. It’s a 2D 3×3 MOBA; should be a pleasant source of mayhem. We’re meeting at our usual time: 9:30pm EST … Continue reading

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Symposium: System Shock, November 7, 2013

For the November Symposium, we’ll discuss System Shock. (The original, not System Shock 2.)  I’m curious to talk about it in relation to other Looking Glass games (Ultima Underworld, Thief); to FPSes in general (both at the time, e.g. Marathon, … Continue reading

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