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Who Dares Rolls 52 – Back Again!

by Mike Bon December 12, 2018
After a not so brief hiatus the team return for a fresh new podcast episode. Huzzah!

Ragnarok For CMON?

by Mike Bon December 4, 2018
Blood Rage Digital launched yesterday on Kickstarter and in a scant few hours, surpassed its $50,000 funding goal. No real surprise, Blood Rage is Eric Lang and CMON’s crowning glory and my favorite of their games so a digital implementation of that seemed a cracking idea. However, let’s cut to the chase because this project […]

Blood Rage returns to Kickstarter

by Mike Bon November 13, 2018
This news  hit late last night at the end of the Project Elite kickstarter, but yes CMON have decided to bring Blood Rage back to Kickstarter in a new digital iteration!! Here’s all the words that they said… Blood Rage Digital will be the next Flash Kickstarter campaign by CMON. Featuring Multiplayer and Solo options, the […]

Can board games scare you?

by Mike Bon October 31, 2018
Halloween is my favourite time of year it’s like Christmas for us horror nuts. Inevitably the assortment of TV and movies rolled out to honour this grimly fun holiday are as disappointing as a wet fart in a pair of white undercrackers. Yet despite this every October there’s always a tantalising bit of excitement hoping […]

Terraforming Mars

by Mike Bon October 17, 2018
WDR Silver
Welcome to our “Late to the Table” series of reviews. That’s industry code for eventually reviewing a hugely popular game long after every other reviewer, facebook group and pet with an opinion has flogged that particular nag to death. Anyway, where better to start than a cracking fugly hybrid euro sci-fi from a couple of […]

Stak Bots Purple Expansion

by Mike Bon October 2, 2018
WDR Silver
Stak Bots is something of a family affair, it’s a series that has grown up with my kids it was Ollie my now teenage son’s first board game crush. It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since I first encountered its malevolent little robotic gits at the now-defunct Chi-Con on a cold December morning. […]

Microbrew

by Mike Bon September 4, 2018
WDR Silver
Heh, so this review should have come out before the Microbrew Kickstarter launched, and I totally, completely intended for that to happen. But life has a way of throwing you the occasional curve ball on this occasion that particular detour was the arrival of son No.3. Babies really don’t have any concept of deadlines, sleep […]

Cadavers: World Gone to Hell

by Mike Bon August 27, 2018
Greetings all, I appreciate that things have been a tad quiet around here and that’s mainly due to the expansion of my own personal gaming guild with son no.3 arriving on the scene just a couple of weeks ago. So hang in there and we’ll be back to our usual slipshod release schedule before you […]

Gladiatores Blood for Roses

by Mike Bon August 18, 2018
We get down and dirty with Gladiatores the new arena combat card game from Bad Cat Games coming soon to Kickstarter. Gladiatores @ Bad Cat Games

Who Dares Rolls Podcast 51 – Where is my Mind?

by Mike Bon August 10, 2018
It’s time again for another enthralling podcast episode of Who Dares Rolls. In this astounding installment:The team discuss the barely remembered highs and lows of this years EXPO. Mike get’s all excited about Portal Games Detective A modern crime board game. Hot off it’s Gen Con showing mike discusses how he’s found the first couple […]