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Ex-Blizzard CEO’s New Game Is Jackbox Meets Gloomhaven And It Rules
10.10.2024
Few things are harder than trying to get your friends into tabletop RPGs. The rules are complex, set up can be a pain in the ass, and you’ll need to carve out more than a couple of hours of time for a proper play session. Sunderfolk, the first video game from developer Secret Door—one of...
Don’t Feel Guilty Over Save Scumming In Baldur’s Gate 3
17.8.2023
Save scumming: It’s the art of saving before a potentially undesirable outcome in a video game should you not like the results, and reloading if you don’t. And as with everything in video gaming, folks have opinions on it. Some will tell you it’s totally fine, others might categorize it as a mortal...
Beloved Tabletop RPG Will Now Let Fans Make, Sell Their Own Games
16.6.2022
Indie tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) designers will have some new rules to play with soon. Monte Cook Games announced last week that its core set of tabletop roleplaying game rules, known as the Cypher System, is switching to an open license that will allow anyone to design and sell content...
Video Game Publisher Wants To Buy Board Game Giant Asmodee For Over $3 Billion
16.12.2021
The Embracer Group, a collection of companies like Gearbox, THQ Nordic and Deep Silver, announced today that they’re in the process of trying to buy Asmodee, perhaps the single biggest name in specialist board gaming, for €2.75 billion (USD$3.1 billion).Read more
Lost In Random: The Kotaku Review
24.9.2021
I play a lot of games for this job. That’s not a brag, it’s just a fact. And while many of those games are good, most of them tend to blend together. But whenever something comes along that is not only great but also feels fresh and incredibly memorable, it reminds me of how awesome games can...
Two Hours With Back 4 Blood, The Next Big Game By Left 4 Dead Devs
6.8.2021
I don’t need to sell you on the brilliance of Left 4 Dead, especially when half the industry seems to be drawing inspiration from it right now. But after two hours with Back 4 Blood‘s verses and campaign modes, does it have the same genre-defining charm? That’s hard to say.Read more
The New 3D Edition Of Catan Is Freakin' Gorgeous
25.5.2021
Settling the island of Catan in Klaus Teuber’s classic board game has never looked quite as eye-poppingly lush as it does in the new $300 3D edition. Read more
Frosthaven Is Rethinking Its Fantasy 'Races'
24.5.2021
Gloomhaven sequel Frosthaven isn’t even out yet and it’s already tracking to be one of the biggest board games of the last decade, so it’s very cool seeing the way the game is going to taking a different approach to the way its “races” are depicted compared to more traditional fantasy...
Knight Squad 2 Knows How To Party
14.4.2021
Party games balance on a tightrope. If they’re too rooted in chance, everyone will be at each other’s throats within a round. (See: Mario Party.) If they’re too basic, they’re boring, and if they’re too complex, well, there’s no fun for a party. Every so often, a game comes along and nails...
Mansions Of Madness Deserves A Better Video Game
7.4.2021
Fantasy Flight’s Mansions of Madness, the standout game from the publisher’s Arkham Horror lineup, is one of my favourite board game experiences of all time, a near-perfect blend of occult investigation and unforgiving combat. Both things that its new video game adaptation are terrible at.Read more
There Are Too Many Warhammer Video Games
7.4.2021
Back in 2016, Mike wrote a blog called “There Are Far Too Many Warhammer Games”. In 2021, things have only got worse.Read more
The Best Single-Player Board Games, According To Our Readers
25.3.2021
Top Pick: Arkham Horror | $53 | AmazonRead more
What’s the Best Single-Player Board Game?
22.3.2021
A few months ago, we asked our readers to tell us what they thought the best two-player board game was. We got a huge collection of answers that ranged from elaborate indies to classics like Cribbage. That was great news for roommates or partners who were cooped up together during the pandemic....
Take a Break From the Screen and Roll on Over To One of These Video-To-Board Game Adaptations
8.1.2021
Top Pick: Dark Souls: The Board Game | $77 | AmazonRead more