Last Defense is a real-time, app-driven, cooperative crisis management game from the team at Prospero Hall published by Funko Games. The game contains everything you see in board games; cards, tokens, dice, a board, standees,Continue reading
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Top 10 Things I love about The Dice Tower
People into board gaming have likely heard about “The Dice Tower”. For those the unfamiliar, this is a website that produces content about board gaming through various media: videos on youtube and audio through podcasts.Continue reading
Bugs! Too many bugs!
A Xenoshyft Review “Trying to kill some bugs sir. Get out of here. GET OUT OF HERE!” – Sugar Watkins, Starship Troopers Movie (1997) The scuttling sound of claws scraping metal is getting louder byContinue reading
A Game of Thrones 2nd Age
SPOILER ALERT: Jon Snow is really dead, but in the card game, he’s alive! Branding anything with “A Game of Thrones (aGoT)” turns anything to gold. Years ago, when Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) made anContinue reading
Simply Epic
The Wild demigod’s eyes glimmer gold. The ground cracks, and from a deep fissure out rumbles an 18-storey Burrowing Wurm. Its shriek sounding like a thousand caravans dragged beneath the sands. To this terror, theContinue reading
Harbouring Merchants
From the ever popular Monopoly to the lesser-known Jambo! and the cultish “Cashflow,” boardgames mean money.Market simulation games try to illustrate real-world business scenarios with derivative mechanics and simplified components. Often times though, these gamesContinue reading
Welcome to the Moon, Mr. Kennedy
“He who controls the past, controls the future” – Orwell, 1984 What if Samsung, Louis Vuitton, and Toyota were under communist rule, thanks to The Philippines? What if Beijing helped Washington avoid the Vietnam War?Continue reading
The way of the Spirit
Once upon a time, there was a quaint farming village nestled upon a hillside. There were six farmsteads and three families peacefully tending their produce. The village cemetary was nearby, where previous generations were laidContinue reading
Draw or you’re a Dead Man
Dead Man’s Draw is a card game that was actually first released as a free-to-play digital app by Stardock Entertainment. It’s a simple push-your-luck game with many twists. I recall saying to myself back then,Continue reading
Sexy Paperback
The board game industry is amidst a boom of talent and innovation. Thousands upon thousands of designers are becoming recognized. Publishers are gobbling each other up, in the hopes of becoming the top big shots.Continue reading