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Contributor: Andrew Girdwood

Continuing the archive of independent Andrew Girdwood reporting (Archive Page 160).

Checkmate, ChatGPT: AI schooled by 50-year-old Atari

June 11, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The vanquisher? Not a grandmaster, but a gaming console that was collecting dust when the internet was still a twinkle in a computer scientist’s eye: the Atari 2600.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: artificial intelligence, atari, chess

Play as the living or unliving! The official Return of the Living Dead TTRPG devours its crowdfunding target

June 11, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

For the Return of the Living Dead’s 40th anniversary, official and using the Everyday Heroes RPG system, there’s a Living Dead roleplaying game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: everyday heroes, evil genius productions, kickstarters, zombies

The legend continues – Avatar: The Last Airbender in concert adds new date for 20th anniversary tour

June 11, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nickelodeon, GEA Live, and Senbla have announced an additional matinee performance in London, set to take place at the prestigious London Coliseum on Saturday, 13th September 2025, at 2:30 pm.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Avatar: The Last Airbender, concert

Beyblade X National Championship qualifier to be held at Anime Expo

June 11, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The path to the Beyblade X World Championship will run through one of North America’s largest celebrations of Japanese pop culture this summer.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Anime Expo, beyblade, conventions, hasbro

Power user review: UGREEN’s Nexode Power Bank Genshin Impact edition

June 9, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The display, which impressed me so, shows a pixel art of K’uhul Ajaw, a dragon from the open-world Genshin Impact RPG, along with real-time power data.

Filed Under: Cool Tech

Swords, Stunts, and Stranger Shores: Getting started with Fantasy AGE Second Edition

June 9, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve got until July 1st to grab Green Ronin’s Fantasy AGE 2e deal from Bundle of Holding.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, fantasy age, Green Ronin Publishing

Sebastien de Castell’s explanation as to why there’s no Greatcoats TTRPG is logical and tragic

June 8, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At Cymera, the horror and sci-fi festival in Edinburgh, Sebastien de Castell took the stage under the watch of host E.M. Faulds with Scottish author Cameron Johnston to talk about The Malevolent Eight (Sebastien) and The Last Shield (Cameron).

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, cymera, money

Wizards of the Coast’s (money) recruited sci-fi authors for the Exodus TTRPG

June 8, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Exodus is a computer RPG from Wizards of the Coast’s Archetype Entertainment, and it’ll feature Matthew McConaughey. There’s a tabletop RPG to accompany both.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Archetype Entertainment, essence20, exodus, James Ohlen, wizards of the coast

Short film: Red Iron Road – Family of Vurdulak

June 8, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can watch Family of Vurdulak for free on YouTube. The horror animation is the first episode in the Red Iron Road series.

Filed Under: Online Shows Tagged With: animation, horror, short film

Adrian Tchaikovsky prefers a TTRPG-first approach for future setting

June 7, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At Edinburgh’s sci-fi and horror fiction festival, Cymera, Adrian Tchaikovsky told the crowd that he has a fantasy novel idea and that he’d rather like a TTRPG for it, and agreed on. The game must come first. Update: 9th June – An earlier version of this post used stronger language for Adrian’s position. He’s since […]

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, cymera

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