Board Game News 17 October 2014
Its been a month since I last posted a news update you’ll never accuse us of having our fingers on the pulse here at WDR Towers, so with our usual sluggishness and sloth like efficiency lets take a well overdue delve into the carboardy underbelly of boardgames and see whats twitching out there to tantalize […]
Legendary Encounters
WDR Essential
Ever since Upper Deck announced their plans to release an Alien themed version of Legendary I’ve been staying frosty in anticipation. The film series is something I’ve adored since I first encountered everyone’s favorite Xenomorph back in 79, whilst not quite of age to see Alien on the big screen I devoured issues of Fantastic […]
Coin Age
WDR Silver
Kickstarter has given us a great many things Video Games, Comics, Potato salad! One area it has thrived is board games and more specifically the micro game has flourished in these mysterious seas, just cast a net into the turbulent kickstarter waters and you’re sure to drag up a net bulging with promise. Coin Age […]
Who Dares Rolls Podcast – Episode 12 – Heroes Wanted
Its episode 12 of the Who Dares Rolls Podcast in this four color heroic extravaganza our intrepid purveyors of podcasty derring do take on Action Phase Games Heroes Wanted, the tactical board game of mix n’ match heroes and quirky party fun. Will they succumb to the urge to throat punch each other or become […]
Apocalypse:Galactic Arena – Preview
Note that this based on a pre-release version of the game and the finished components and rules may differ, but it’ll still be cool. You remember that episode of Star Trek, the one with the Shat drop kicking the big green lizard dude and getting his shirt torn (the Gorn for those discerning trek types) […]
Who Dares Rolls – Podinterview 2 – Martin Vaux – Lords of War
Greetings again you lucky souls. Here’s an interview I conducted recently with that most amiable of chaps Martin Vaux from Black Box Games, he’s one part of the symbiotic design team creature behind the hugely successful Lords of War series (the other head belonging to Nick Street). We had a chance to cover the origins […]
Who Dares Rolls Podcast Episode 11 – Dead Of Winter
Its episode 11 of the Who Dares Rolls Podcast. In this thrilling installment we discuss Plaid Hat Games new zombie game Dead Of Winter & Crossroads Game its given the usual unstructured blather but its possible you may discern some information of use somewhere during it. The boys also dig into a spot of post […]
Board Game News On September 10 2014
Its September! Its nearly half way through September!! Who’s stealing my time, it was only July last week. Ignoring my tenuous grip on the space time continuum lets push on. New Game Releases. OK so its that post Gen Con time of year, which basically means that gamer’s are broke, there will be on average […]
The Who Dares Rolls PodInterview 1 – Phillip duBarry and Skyway Robbery
Greetings all, Here’s a new regular feature that I want to start to roll out, a series of interviews with designers and other cool and key people in this marvelous world of tabletop gaming. We’ve been conducting these already but they’ve been embedded among the podcast’s and they are protracting them to epic length and […]
Board Game News On 1st September 2014
Its September already! Seems like the summer barely started and now were slouching towards the festive season. On the plus side that means loads of cool new games a soon to start dropping on doormats everywhere. Still it seems almost pointless posting on today. Pretty much the entirety of the internet is obsessing over The […]
