A Place Beyond Shame 10: Meet The Cast!
This week marks production week for Underworld, so things are going to be a little hairy. In light of this, I figured I would provide folks with their upcoming Last Exodus fix by introducing you to a couple of the…
A Place Beyond Shame 11: What to do when the Lines Blur
I remember my first discussion with Nick Van Zandt quite clearly. I hadresponded to an e-mailed invitation from a dummy account. As per hisinstruction, I came alone. It was about 3am on an April night, musky anddamp.
A Place Beyond Shame 20 Bright Sunshiny Day
With one word my blood ran cold, shot through my veins and turned to ice, froze me in one spot with the sheer unreality of the what I had heard.
A Place Beyond Shame, Part 5: System of a Clown (part 1 of 2)
We sat on a stoop wearing a mixture of what was formal and what was convenient. Mere hours ago, we had been going about our lives, and now here we were on a cool spring day in Brooklyn at the apartment building where…
A Place Beyond Shame, Part 6: System of a Clown (part 2 of 2)
With special guest star Gareth-Michael Skarka !
A Place Beyond Shame, Part 7: Coop Devils and Live Evil
Hala Winter and I were standing on the corner of Bleeker and Sixth, preparing to make the long trek from the Village to the Lower East Side. She knows The Last Exodus better then I do (by some accounts) and has been a…
A Place Beyond Shame, part 8: Good heavens and Bad beer: Synister at Sea
Josh had been on a fishing kick for some reason and organized the trip with a passion I had rarely seen him use for something other than music, certain women, and tearing through Newark traffic at speeds that can--and…
A Place Beyond Shame, Part 9: Knock, Knock
No human being has ever died at the hands of an implicit villain. The Nazis were very much present at the deaths of the Gypsies, Jews, and other unfortunates. The Serbian Nationalists were RIGHT THERE for every second…
Episode 12: Death, Sex, and Milwaulkee (Part 1)
Sean Jaffe's game design column will now be having a regular weekly spot here on the Gaming Outpost. Look for it every Wednesday.
Episode 12: Death, Sex, and Milwaulkee (Part 2)
I gazed under half-lidded eyes at the bustle of people moving back and forth in front of the booth. The lightning domes and lack of sleep where having a hypnotic effect on me. "Wake up, knucklehead." Gareth rattled my…
Episode 12: Death, Sex, and Milwaulkee (Part 3)
I was looking out the front doors of the Wyndham Milwaukee, waiting for a cab and trying to clear the drunken haze from my spinning skull. Rain spattered the glass in time with the knots in my stomach. Peter was in the…
Episode 13: Soul Food
"You know what you should make a game about?" My father asked in his habitual bemused tone. He asked the question at least twice a week."Whats that?" I asked between chews. "Rather than having the&uh..characters in the…
Episode 14: Dreaming Amidst Dogma
I seem to have returned to Times Square.If youve never been here, I really cant do this justice. Josh dragged me out here at the absurd hour of 3:06 AM, claiming his usual argument. "I cant write anywhere normal."
Episode 15: The Opiate of a Brave New World
I choked on what felt like liquid light. My skin tingled, but the sensation was like when a truly great piece of fiction or music causes goosebumps& multiplied by a thousand. I lost my balance because for a split second…
Episode 16: On Mothers and Missiles
If youre looking for lists of keen powers and stuff, youll have to wait until next week. But I promise I WILL deliver. That said, Ill admit it. Im an equipment goob.
Episode 17: Powers to the People, For Better or Worse
Thats right, I wear a machine-tooled lightsaber handle on my belt. A very expensive one. You know why? Because I am a geek, thats why. A damn proud geek.
Episode 18: The Massacre at Pier 24
"Uh.... Jesus. Is ...uh... anyone here still alive?"They blinked."Bueller?"They stared and continued to blink.
Part 1: Impetus
The lights were a bit too bright, the floor a little too sticky, and the breasts on the dancer in front of me a bit too …pneumatic. She smiled at me in an almost maternal way and I paid a dollar for the bizarre version…
Part 2: The Plot Thickens
Okay, lemme get this straight… The players play Jesus? Jesus Christ?' 'Yeah. Well, Prodigal Children, one step removed from God, yeah.' 'Or they can be Antichrists?' 'Yeah. That’s also a possibility.' 'You can PLAY the…
Part 3: More Recent Hijinx
I enjoy spending quality time with my dog and pornography too, but I don’t necessarily want to enjoy them together.
Part 4: Jesus wouldn't put up with this sh*t, and neither will we.
"If we hadnt had to rescue you, none of this would have happened. We wouldnt have been in a pit full of military-grade genetic waste and six foot Caco-demons, we wouldnt have fought a jumbo-jet sized severed demon head,…