@Play

@ Play is a "bi-weekly column by John Harris which discusses the history, present and future of the Roguelike dungeon exploring genre.". It is published on Gamesetwatch.com. The articles so far are:

#	Title	Date	Summary
1.	An Introduction To Some Rogue-s	August 6, 2006	An introduction to the roguelike genre.
2.	What the hell does Q do again?	August 20, 2006	A summary of the keys.
3.	Rogue and its Inspiration	September 3, 2006	A view on the original roguelike game, Rogue.
4.	Giant Eel Stories, Volume 1	September 18, 2006	Some interesting Usenet ascension posts.
5.	Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue & Red Rescue Team	October 2, 2006	Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team for the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, respectively.
6.	ToeJam & Earl, The Roguelike That's Not An RPG	October 15, 2006	ToeJam & Earl for the Sega Genesis.
7.	Thou Art Early, But We'll Admit Thee	October 29, 2006	The many ways to die in NetHack.
8.	A View of the Field	November 13, 2006	NetHack, Ancient Domains of Mystery & Linley's Dungeon Crawl.
9.	Hack Hacks	November 27, 2006	NetHack patches.
10.	A Coward Dies A Thousand Deaths, My Computer, Several Billion	December 10, 2006	Rog-O-Matic & Borg, the automatic roguelike player bots.
11.	I Never Meta Rogue I Didn't Like	December 25, 2006	How the match may continue between the games.
12.	Giant Eel Stories, Volume 2	January 8, 2007	More interesting Usenet ascension posts.
13.	Mapping the Infinite Cavern	January 22, 2007	On dungeon generation algorithms.
14.	ADOM, Nethack With A Goatee	February 6, 2007	Ancient Domains of Mystery.
15.	Tips For Travel In Gridland	February 19, 2007	Moving safely in the grid of any roguelike.
16.	Before Learning to Walk, One Must First Crawl	March 6, 2007	Linley's Dungeon Crawl.
17.	I Believe It Not!	March 20, 2007	The funny features of NetHack.
18.	Storytelling, Bah!	April 2, 2007	The declining state of storytelling and interactivity in gaming.
19.	Doom, doom, doom, doom	April 16, 2007	DoomRL.
20.	Hack's Lost Brother	May 8, 2007	HackLite.
21.	Things to Do While Visiting Ancardia	May 22, 2007	ADOM quests.
22.	Spoiled for Options	June 5, 2007	Wishing and knowing what to wish for.
23.	Architecture of the Mystery Dungeon	June 27, 2007	Mysterious Dungeon, a.k.a. Fushigi no Dungeon.
24.	Taloon's Mystery Dungeon, In Great Detail	July 9, 2007	Torneko no Daibōken: Fushigi no Dungeon, a.k.a. Taloon's Mystery Dungeon.
25.	A Journey to Table Mountain, Part 1	July 24, 2007	Fushigi no Dungeon 2: Furai no Shiren, a.k.a. Shiren the Wanderer.
26.	A Journey to Table Mountain, Part 2	August 7, 2007	Fushigi no Dungeon 2: Furai no Shiren, a.k.a. Shiren the Wanderer.
27.	Fei's Problems	August 21, 2007	Fushigi no Dungeon 2: Furai no Shiren, a.k.a. Shiren the Wanderer.
28.	Balancing a game that looks balanceless	September 6, 2007	The game balance of NetHack.
29.	7DRL: Seven Day Quest	September 24, 2007	The Seven Day Quest.
30.	Starting Out In POWDER, Or 'Beware The Kiwi Bird, My Son'	October 9, 2007	POWDER.
31.	Homebrew Roguelikes On The DS	November 7, 2007	Playing homebrew roguelikes on the Nintendo DS.
32.	A Quick Look at the Nethack Sources	December 15, 2007	The source code of NetHack.
33.	Angband - At Last!	January 19, 2008	Angband.
34.	Nethack Intensified	March 9, 2008	SLASH'EM.