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Eight-Minute Empire: Legends (Saturday Review)
The four armies have landed on the beach of the abandoned island and deposited their troops with intent. They are here to claim their stake and becom…
6 years, 10 months ago
Alpha One
As some of you will know, I’m an alpha player at the core, which means I can take over co-operative games and tell people what to do. Even in competi…
6 years, 10 months ago
Magnate: The First City (Takebacks)
The price bubble has burst and the property market has crashed. People have lost a lot of money when they were forced to sell everything at a much lo…
6 years, 10 months ago
Games of Christmas
I guess it has become tradition now for boardgame blogs to suggest a number of games that people should play with their friends and family over the f…
6 years, 11 months ago
Vivaldi (Saturday Review)
It's been a very long time since I have played one of the classic, German trick-taking games, like Skat or Doppelkopf. My family and I used to play S…
6 years, 11 months ago
Hitting the mainstream
Apparently, modern tabletop games have had a huge surge worldwide recently. Mind you, "recently" really means a few years, and it doesn't seem to let…
6 years, 11 months ago
Sub Terra II: Inferno's Edge (Saturday Review)
You and a handful of brave explorers have finally found the entrance to Mount Arima, the fearsome volcano that has laid sleeping for decades, and whi…
6 years, 11 months ago
Breaking down walls
As we commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago, I wanted to talk about walls in tabletop gaming and look at what walls there still are th…
6 years, 11 months ago
Tapestry (Saturday Review)
Through five millennia you guide your civilization from the discovery of fire through vastly different eras to its ultimate end. You discover and dev…
6 years, 11 months ago
Post-show blues
I'm sure, many of you are tired of hearing all about Essen Spiel 2019. Everyone who went is talking about all the games they saw, played and bought, …
6 years, 11 months ago