By Stonemaier Games, Paul Saloman I don’t know what it is with games which have really mundane themes, but something always appeals to me about them. Fantasy and science fiction are fine, I’ve got several games about Cthulhu and about zombies, but if you tell me there’s a game about a stamp convention, I’m in. […]
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Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Starter Set Review – Roll to Do a Starfleet!
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Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth
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After Us Review
Mike reviews the game of post-apocalyptic monkey tribe engine-building
The Renaissance, a glorious and romantic period in human history; a time over-flowing with creativity; a period which saw the production of some of the greatest works of art of all time: Michelangelo’s David and the Sistine Chapel, Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper and Mona Lisa, Donatello’s Saint John The Baptist and Saint John The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
So here we go again, another bloody zombie game! I understand the eye rolling, the board game market has been flooded with Zombie titles over the last couple of years and disappointingly very few of them have honestly nailed this genre, the one exception being City Of Horror that came pretty close. They all make […]
So in perfect timing I went on my family holidays last week whilst the rest of the board gaming world went Gen Con crazy, to make matters worse I happened to be enjoying myself in Cornwall an area of the UK with an abundance of beaches, bustles of pasties and unfortunately a WiFi network powered […]
This has been to the wire, i’m about to go off on a weeks holiday and I wanted to get this out before I went. Cue some late night edits and early mornings panics, but I just managed it. OK so some big announcements here this is the promised bumper episode that runs to a […]
Kemet is a very fighty game. Its the equivalent of that kid who was always in trouble at school you know the one, used to sit in the back of class and punch random classmates, that’s when he wasn’t doing things to girls near the bike sheds that we wouldn’t know about until the following […]