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Revisiting Baldurs Gate
Before Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition was announced, Alzo mentioned he had never played Baldurs Gate before. Three others and I got together, gathered our party and ventured forth. Tuesday was found to...
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HeroQuest
In 1991, Dek picked up a game for the ZX Spectrum called HeroQuest. This was an amazing little game where you had a party of 4 and adventured round a dungeon completing quests, killing orcs and...
View ArticleTemporary Interruption in Servive
Please be aware there is a temporary interruption in service. We have all set aside time for retro games to kill demons in Diablo 3. We also have some guest keys left so contact us if you want one....
View ArticleHero Quest Update
After writing the blog post about HeroQuest I hunted around on Twitter and the like and found someone in Dundee talking about it – he has written a series of posts pimping his painting skills – Parts...
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Indie Game: Connectrode
Connectrode is a highly addictive indie puzzle game available from the Apple App Store. I first discovered the game reading about Shay Pierce’s story on Gamasutra. Connectrode Title Screen Zynga bought...
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Scottish Gaming T-shirts
We’ve recently come across a website with lots of Gaming t-shirts in a Scottish style. Created by Brian Baglow of http://scottishgames.net/ there are some real belters. Our favourites are the Space...
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Robot Exhibition in Dundee
Whilst attending a Cafe Science talk in Sensations in Dundee I took the opportunity to pop round the current exhibition which is all about robots! Some of the non-blurry pictures are below – some of...
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Dare ProtoPlay 2012
Alan G gives a quick run-down of some of tomorrows smash-hit games. This weekend saw the latest showcase of Dare to be Digital the student games development competition started at Abertay in Dundee....
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Major Arcana – New Shop in Dundee
A couple of weeks ago a new geek emporium opened in Dundee called Major Arcana. We were excited and took a trip down. It’s in Exchange Street, the former location of Bike Worx. A fresh lick of paint...
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1001 Video Games You Must Play Saga Begins
We are all gonna die… Its true fact of nature that we are all gonna die soon. Its inescapable and ultimately unavoidable unless scifi becomes sci-fact then we are basically at the mercy of death....
View ArticleCerberus Casual Card Club
For a few months now we have had an idea in our head for hosting a board/card game night at Cerberus bar in Dundee. It’s our local and the licensee was saying he was looking for some ideas for midweek...
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X-Com Enemy We Know
Pahn, Gremio, Cleo and Valeria board the Skyranger hurriedly as an emergency situation has begun in Germany. Aliens have been sighted and they are abducting people. After what seems like a long flight,...
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Kickstarter: Jackpot!
We like lot’s of old games and indie games in paper and computer formats. Recently we came across a flyer for a kickstarter of a card game from someone based in Dundee called Jackpot!. You play a...
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Dragon’s Maze Pre-Release
The 27th-28th April was the pre-release weekend for the new Magic the Gathering set: Dragon’s Maze. I attended Gatecrash which was my first proper tournament, but was really looking forward to playing....
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Theros Pre-Release
The latest Magic set is finally out and was hyped a huge amount. A massively well-designed Greek theme had everyone salivating at the flavour we’d get from the set. As is normal for sets now I attended...
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First ever draft win
I have managed to win my first ever draft, having always got mana/colour screwed any time I managed to pull together a decent deck. Here’s what I managed with other people in my colours too. Spark Jolt...
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Bringing back HeroQuest?
I’ve previously written about Heroquest so you should know how much I love this game, responsible as it is for getting me more into nerdy hobbies. A wee while back, a petition started for a 25th...
View ArticleWizards have borked the datas
Update: Tony Pagliocco and his team have now fixed the issue! I logged into Planeswalker Points to see how I’d done for the year. For Scotland I was sitting about 50th for the year and 299th of all...
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This week in Gaming
It’s a new year so let’s attempt a new series of something which will peter out at some point. Yay! I realised I’d done at least one bit of gaming every day this year so let’s see how long it can carry...
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Wizards fixed the datas
So it appears that we have more readers than we first thought! After posting last week about the nationality data issue with Planeswalker Points the article spread round a few places online, even being...
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This week in Gaming
Well this week was less gamey than I expected mainly due to hitting this blog repeatedly trying to fix the white screen of death. Wednesday 8th January 2014 It was Cerberus games night and I got...
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This week in gaming
Unfortunately the upcoming PTQ for Magic has dominated this week. then there’s a pre-release weekend and release weekend. I see much cardboard crack in next few weeks. Wednesday 15th January Games...
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This Week In Gaming
This weeks gaming was taken up by a lot of prep for the Magic PTQ in Dundee on Saturday. Wednesday 22nd January I managed to get a couple of test games of Magic against a Red/Green deck, something I...
View ArticleThis Week, er Fortnight in Gaming
With the tiredness at end of the Magic PTQ I was a bit mashed from gaming so haven’t played as much in the last two weeks. Within that time there has been the Born of the Gods pre-release/release....
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This Week, er Month in Gaming
I thought it would be more amusing to extend the delay from posts. The main reason was not many new games being played in the first two weeks after last post. Over the past three weeks or so the fun...
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MtG -Warsaw Grand Prix Trial
This Sunday saw the Grand Prix Trial take place for Warsaw. I was mostly interested in points to grind to try and get a bye for Grand Prix Manchester. At constructed on Thursday, my Mono Black Devotion...
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MtG Journey Into Nyx Pre-Release
The new Set of magic was out and with the Manchester Grand Prix coming up it was our first chance to see the cards which we will add to existing decks or build new ones. The first day I opened an...
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MtG Grand Prix Manchester
I had been enthused over the upcoming Manchester Grand Prix – my first ever proper magic tournament. The weeks leading up I played around with a few decks and then Pro Tour happened. The meta...
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Lords of Waterdeep
Lords of Waterdeep is a worker placement game which has been taking up a chunk of my time recently. Set in the Forgotten Realms city of Waterdeep, it has a Dungeons & Dragons theme, although...
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Mutiny Kickstarter
So we at joystuck love a good Kickstarter. Another local indie house Hidden Armada have created one for their pirate battle game Mutiny! A 16 player game where pirate crews battle it out. I can see...
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Ingress
Over the past month I’ve played a fair bit of the Augmented Reality game Ingress. I was introduced by someone in work and it reminded me of Other. It consists of two factions, the Resistance (blue) and...
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Preliminary Pro Tour Qualifier – Stirling
Wizards in their infinite wisdom decided to change the Pro Tour Qualifier system, now instead of winning a tournament there were a few of a year in Scotland to get to the Pro tour you need to: Win a...
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A minor lesson for Magic sealed pools
I’m just back from a fun trip to Grand Prix Liverpool for Magic the Gathering. A good weekend, some fun games and of course the main event. The way a sealed pool works at an event like this is, you...
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A year of Magic
After starting playing Magic at the start of 2013, the last year has seen me improve a lot and play a lot more. I’ve tried to not let it overtake all my other nerdery (board games, computer games etc),...
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Random Encounter on Kickstarter
Do you like games which make you giggle when you win? Do you like games which make you giggle when you shoot yourself in the foot and lose? Yes to both? Time to pledge for Random Encounter on...
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