Military personnel stationed in Iraq are planning a role-playing game convention but are short on polyhedral dice, graph paper, lead miniatures, rulebooks, and so forth.
They're looking for donations of D&D kit for the event:

The largest problem with running a Con in Iraq, of course, is that there are no local stores or game publishers, and few game books on the post.

This week marks the Electronic Frontier Foundation's 15th anniversary — a decade and a half of changing bad laws, creating good court decisions, and building a technological civil liberties movement that now comprises dozens of organizations, activity all over the world, and millions of geeks with a burgeoning consciousness that the Internet isn't free because of its nature: it's been kept free by the struggles of activists and users who have fought back the forces of repression who would have tamed it and crimped it and rendered it little more than an AOL-1.0-style toy. — Read the rest

Ex Machina (from Guardians of Order) is a tabletop RPG based on cyberpunk science fiction, and it looks hella fun. The game is part of the dX system, which, like Steve Jackson Games's GURPS, is a generic set of rules for tabletop role-playing, intended to be supplemented with thematic rule-books that allow players to game in any kind of world, from high fantasy to wild west to underwear-and-tights superheros. — Read the rest

A followup to an earlier post on Steve Jackson Games's excellent new DRM-free PDF-game-publishing venture, check out RPG Now. They publish PDF-based role-playing games without DRM, and, like SJG, they give you the ability to download your games over and over again, meaning that you can play anywhere there's a computer, even if you've forgotten your copies at home. — Read the rest