Seasonally appropriate! The music of the spheres features in many traditional Christmas poems, most famously in Milton’s On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity: “Ring out, ye crystal spheres...”

The core problem is with the Shadow of Things series’ writing overall: it’s little more than lazy stitchwork of cliched one-liners from Jackson’s already hackneyed trilogy. If you played a drinking game where you took a shot everyone time a character in the game droned on about “the world of men,” it’s likely you…

People griping about TDC’s game mechanics missed the point entirely. TDC is a game about helplessness, frustration, impotence, disappointment, and loss. It is *thematically* an anti-game. It is intended to frustrate the gamer’s expectations of mastery and conquering. The mechanics reflect that, and brilliantly so.…