![GEN CON 2023: DGM Walks the Con [EVENT/NEWS]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/GenCon23_Thumb-240x240.jpg)
GEN CON 2023: DGM Walks the Con [EVENT/NEWS]
While Gen Con 2023 got off to a wild start this year with a $300k Magic card heist on Wednesday and a near riot involving the Disney Lorcana release Thursday morning, we started our coverage of the show a little later Thursday—after the hubbub had died down! So much to see at Gen Con this year! DGM reporter, Megan Renee, takes you through Gen Con in our exploration video. The new style we used this year allows you to feel more like you’re actually there with us, as we see overviews of things, and then zoom into segments of tutorials just like you might if you were actually there…
![Editor’s Recut: The Star Wars Prequels Become Watchable [ARTICLE/VIDEO]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/rsz_002-natalie-portman-hayden-christensen-star-wars-www_huy_com_ua-240x240.jpg)
Editor’s Recut: The Star Wars Prequels Become Watchable [ARTICLE/VIDEO]
With the Star Wars Episode VII coming our next week, if you’re like us, you’ve already watched through the Steelbooks of episodes IV, V, and VI! But wouldn’t it be great if somehow the prequels hadn’t sucked, so you could watch those too? If there had been an editor who could’ve told George Lucas ‘No’ on some of the bad ideas that made it into those films?
![Pre-Star Wars VII Canon: Aiming for the Sky and Missing The Universe [ENTERTAINMENT EDITORIAL]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/StarWarsCover-240x240.jpg)
Pre-Star Wars VII Canon: Aiming for the Sky and Missing The Universe [ENTERTAINMENT EDITORIAL]
Like a lot of people, I’m very excited about the new Star Wars film, The Force Awakens. Also like a lot of us, our experience with Star Wars is bittersweet.
I remember being around 8 years old when an uncle of mine showed me Star Wars for the first time on VHS and I was hooked. When I visited my aunt and uncles in Paris, France when I was 16 for a month, I grew so homesick and the only English movie they had to watch was Star Wars–and it reminded me of what I loved about the fantasy adventure there.
![I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts: Cryptozoic’s Adam Sblendorio on Ghostbusters Tabletop Game [ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/CryptoGC_Thumb-240x240.jpg)
I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts: Cryptozoic’s Adam Sblendorio on Ghostbusters Tabletop Game [ARTICLE]
A couple weeks ago, at Gen Con, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Cryptozoic’s Vice President of Creative, Adam Sblendorio. Cryptozoic is one of the better known Indie game houses to explore licensed IP (intellectual property) in their games. They’ve been responsible for the trading card game versions of The Lord of the Rings and DC Heroes, as well as original creations like Epic Spell Wars of The Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre (which was recently featured on Wil Wheaton’s Tabletop). Their Halloween release will be the board game version of Ghostbusters, something that…
![Finding a Path through the Darkness: A Gen Con Look at Paizo’s Creepy New Releases [EVENT/ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Paizo_Thumbnail-240x240.jpg)
Finding a Path through the Darkness: A Gen Con Look at Paizo’s Creepy New Releases [EVENT/ARTICLE]
Paizo is one of those companies that shows just how a creative manufacturer can go from a smaller Indie game expansion company to a major power player in just 7 years. The now iconic Pathfinder roleplaying system may have been based on D&D’s 3.5 Open Gaming License mechanics when it was released in 2008, but it has steadily evolved since then, at times passing D&D in sales, and spinning off a catalog of expansions, classes, maps, and figurines, to say nothing of the successful card game variation that debuted…
![Blind Night: Could Netflix’ Daredevil become the most successful Comic Translation? [EDITORIAL/ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Daredevil_Thumb-240x240.jpg)
Blind Night: Could Netflix’ Daredevil become the most successful Comic Translation? [EDITORIAL/ARTICLE]
For those of us who love comics, the announcement that Marvel TV inked a four franchise deal with Netflix in 2013 to take some of their grittier properties and make TV shows out of them was a little confusing. Obviously, Rated R properties have no place in Marvel Studios new cinematic feature film universe which is decidedly PG-13, but would the Netflix shows be cheap, hokey takeoffs on these Marvel properties? (After all, Marvel TV’s own Agents of Shield on ABC has been hemorrhaging fans since its creation.)
![Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 3 [ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/CrimsonRoomInspiration-240x240.jpg)
Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 3 [ARTICLE]
Due to the power of these sort of “meta-art” concepts, the draw of incredible, tense movies like The Game, Inside Man, and Ocean’s Eleven, and the popularity of things like LARPing, some companies, like Lexington, Kentucky’s The Breakout Games, have decided to see about bringing the metagames found in complex board games and video games and the scenarios reserved to for edge of your seat thriller films to real life! (There are other companies with similar types of offerings out there, so, if you’re not in the Kentucky area, you can likely find places like this in your area. I’m going into…
![Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 2 [ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Meta_CoverDGM-240x240.jpg)
Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 2 [ARTICLE]
When video games grew popular, it was assumed that people would play these animated games when they were children (when children already play a lot of games) and then grow out of them. But we began to learn that people didn’t grow out of them, but instead craved more complex mysteries and stories as they aged. This led to pivotal games like Myst and Rivven, which started the modern video game trend of well-created story and making your players use their brains, not just their reflexes. At the current rate of consumption of complex and morally challenging video games, in the near future…
![Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 1 [ARTICLE]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/DGM_MetaGames_Thumb-240x240.jpg)
Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 1 [ARTICLE]
It’s hard to be a modern creative person without having been exposed to conversations about the “meta-game” or the “meta-content” that’s behind modern creative works. This is made all the more confusing due to the fact that the concept behind how it’s now use in New Media is a hybrid of the noun version of this word, the adjective version, and something else. The French have a phrase called “Je ne sais quoi” which literally translated means “I know not what”—as in, there’s something else about what I’m talking about, but I can’t put my finger on it. It would be appropriate…
![Season Finale of DGM Original Series, Silas & Ami: Breaks New Boundaries… [VIDEO]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SilasMcBaneThumb.jpg)
Season Finale of DGM Original Series, Silas & Ami: Breaks New Boundaries… [VIDEO]
The DGM original series, the Silas & Ami Show, concludes with a bang as Silas & Ami deal with their most controversial topic to date: racially exclusive online dating!
![The Elder Scrolls Online, Part 2: Cyrodiil PvP [VIDEO GAME BETA PREVIEW]](https://www.darkestgoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ElderScrollsThumb.jpg)
The Elder Scrolls Online, Part 2: Cyrodiil PvP [VIDEO GAME BETA PREVIEW]
Cyrodiil is the place to go for PvP action in The Elder Scrolls Online. Referred to as AvA or Alliance vs. Alliance, game play pits the three factions against one another, vying for control of the Imperial Capital. Players will attempt to conquer objectives all across the map, each one providing additional resources for your faction. The final goal, to unlock the city gates and claim the Ruby Throne…
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