by Benjamin Fitzerald Desktop Dungeons is one of the games I bought through Indie Piñata. Part roguelike dungeon crawl and part lighthearted kingdom building, Desktop Dungeons offers many hours of light-hearted yet grueling entertainment. It has a pretty steep learning curve, but there are a lot of tutorials to help you learn the game […]
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Top 10 Greatest Game Over Screens
By Marshall Garvey and Sean Willis “Game Over.” No words are as deflating, saddening and sometimes devastating to a gamer. Part of the elemental fun of gaming is its inherent boundlessness. In many titles, you don’t have a life; you have extra lives. But even then, there has to be something that deters you from […]
What We’re Playing This Week – End of January Edition
By the Last Token Gaming Staff Jake – Yoshi’s Island (SNES) – I’m going to play Yoshi’s Island for the sake of playing my entire backlog of SNES games. And for the sake of reliving my childhood that I had lived. When I want to take a break from playing retro games, I plan on continuing […]
Hall of Fame Review – Baldur’s Gate (1998)
by Benjamin Fitzgerald Developer: BioWare Publisher: Interplay Release Date: December 21, 1998 Genre: Fantasy, role-playing Mode: Single-player, multi-player Rating: T for Teen Ah, Baldur’s Gate. Ugh, Baldur’s Gate. I don’t know if I’ve ever played a game that’s so simultaneously rewarding yet antagonizing. I’ve plugged around 100 hours into this game, and as […]
Let the Challenge Begin – Backlog Challenge 2016
As I stated in the What We’re Playing This Week, I’ve decided to take on a challenge that I feel will definitely be hard to complete. Long ago, I had gone into a period where I thought I had no games to play (which is a lie, I’ll always have games to play) and decided […]
I’ll take Indie Piñata for 300(¢)
by Benjamin Fitzgerald Back in September, Gog.com partnered with Crunching Koalas to bring Indie Piñata into the world. It’s a pretty cool idea, really. How it works is that you are able to buy a game at random for $3.00. I’m not much of a gambler myself, but in this instance I thought it […]
Journey to the Frozen Tundra of Icewind Dale
by Benjamin Fitzgerald An elven sorceress, a half-orc priest, a roguish dwarf, a half-elf bard and two warrior women walk into a bar. It’s not a joke – it’s the opening of Icewind Dale! BioWare developed the Infinity Engine between 1997 and 1998, and it was employed for the first time in Baldur’s Gate. […]
What We’re Playing This Week – 2k16 Edition
By the Last Token Gaming Staff Last Token Gaming has been on fire starting the new year, with bigger goals, challenges and ideas. One of these is to bring back our “What We’re Playing This Week” article series, which lets you know what games we’re currently playing and what we might be working on next. […]
Chaos and Kimonos: Tabletop Megagame “Sengoku”
By Isaac Smith Have you ever thought to yourself, “What would feudal Japan look like if everything were run by 50 people?” Because if you have, boy, have I got a game for you. West Coast Megagames put on an event in Sacramento that brought just over fifty people together to play an aptly named […]
Let’s Play “Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga” – Part 3
By Michael Ros and Kazuo Koyama We continue the first Mike N’ Kaz Play with fart jokes and the epic duel with Darth Maul. Enjoy!