mit press

Occasionally I look to see what's coming up from MIT Press in their game design and history series and I just spotted that Jon Peterson's Playing at the World will be getting an updated, two volume release. Peterson has said that the reason the first, excellent book didn't get released by an...

An illustrated general history from one of the guys behind the (quite good) Vintage RPG podcast. Subtitle...A Guide to Tabletop Role Playing Games from D&D to Mothership. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048224/monsters-aliens-and-holes-in-the-ground/

Another interesting looking book from Strange Attractor Press via MIT. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/grimdark On Warhammer 40,000, Britain's most excessive sci-fi franchise, and its vision of a hellish postindustrial future. In the grim darkness of the British imagination, there is only...

Jon Peterson is sure to piss off many a self-declared internet expert on the hobby's history with this one me thinks. Will be interesting to see the more rabid Gygax and Arneson partisans weeping and gnashing their teeth as several sacred cows are slaughtered. I am such a huge nerd as this...

Jon Peterson has announced his new book The Elusive Shift, following his impressive Playing at the World. I have preordered it for my Kindle, it comes out December 22nd, 2020. Read more about it here.