Opinion and personal pieces by Skarpz.
I’ll start with the nice part, because it’s true. Getting into Magic: The Gathering was one of the easiest things I’ve done in any hobby, and I’ve tried a lot of them. Woodworking, aquariums, books, computers and software. I go from one to the next. Magic is the one that kept pulling me back, and…
The best nights I ever had in gaming happened in a lobby where one shot from a shotgun was enough. I grew up on Nintendo. Then the Nintendo 64 came along, and nothing has topped it for me. GoldenEye with a few friends staying over, all of us trying to stay quiet so we wouldn’t…
I love Magic: The Gathering. I’m saying that first because the rest of this might sound like I don’t. Magic was my first trading card game, played in a small town with a group of guys who seemed to have every card in the game memorized. Every mechanic, every counter. I loved Commander. I loved…
A deep dive into backgammon’s ancient history, its wild mid-century golden age, how computers quietly rewired the way it’s played — and what actually happened when I tried teaching it to my nine-year-old.