So, this isn’t really directly video game related, but I noticed this, and a quick Google search tells me that nobody else has noticed it, so I feel compelled to mention it. Here is a screenshot of an iPhone in an AT&T ad… …from 1993. Technically, of course, it’s not exactly an iPhone, and the [...]

This is a bit of a departure from the usual stuff here, but it’s good enough and video-gamey enough that I thought it was worth talking about. A friend of mine recently posted on his tabletop-gaming blog his ruminations on running a tabletop RPG based on Day Break. I’d never heard of Day Break before [...]

Since I’ve been too distracted to post much lately, and since he has all kinds of exciting things he wants to post on a video game blog, I’ve invited Strider to contribute to Inverted Castle. He’s previously written a number of things for Hardcore Gaming 101, including their article on Tyrian, so I’m sure he’ll [...]

So… the Superplexus is an amazing 3D maze toy, where you navigate a ball bearing along a plastic track by turning the whole toy in every axis of rotation. It was designed by an art professor named Michael McGinnis, and is a project that he worked on in fits and starts from childhood through adulthood, [...]

I just wrote a review of “Dogby Walks Alone” for Amazon, and felt that the story was so good I needed to post the review here, too, even though it’s only barely tangentially related to video games. Long story short, whoever you are, you absolutely MUST read this book, and help spread the word about [...]

My old host is going away, so I’m in the process of moving Inverted Castle to the new one. The old host also hosts smellslikechocobo.com, another domain I own but have never done anything with. Rather than go through the trouble of moving it, I’ve decided to give it away for free. Tell me, in [...]