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I Wish These 5 Dominion Cards Existed
29.8.2023
A spirit tormented by board games must have used its Diet Pepsi breath to take over my desire, because, for the past two weeks, I have been consumed by the need to play the tabletop version of Dominion, the feudal-style deck-builder. I love coming up with bite-sized strategies for its 30-minute...
This Queer, Witchy Deck Builder Is The Perfect Cozy Fall Game
28.8.2023
I find myself reaching again for The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood soon after my first play session on Switch, moved by the inexpressible magic that comes when a game really clicks with you. The witchy narrative adventure has a simple, meditative story and gameplay, and four hours into its approximately...
Tragic Nintendo Unboxing Story Has A Happy Ending
9.5.2023
In August 2022 we told the very sad story of a serious Nintendo collector who, having thought he’d got hold of some very special old playing cards, had in fact got hold of two hunks of worthless cardboard.Read more
Vintage Nintendo Unboxing Ends In Tragedy
23.8.2022
Erik Voskuil, who runs the wonderful Before Mario (and has written an excellent book by the same name), has one of the world’s finest collections of Nintendo stuff. Recently though he managed to get hold of something that was special even by his standards: a couple of packets of Nintendo playing...
Let Bidoof Predict Your Breakup With This Fan-Made Pokémon Diamond Tarot Deck
18.5.2022
My best nights in college involved solemnly laying a tarot card deck across the floor, concentrating hard while I slid a few cards toward my crossed legs, awaiting my future. Tarot, which started as a 15th century card game but morphed into fortune telling at the end of the 18th, has always...
It's Only 243 Days Until Halloween
3.3.2021
Abigail Larson is a character designer at Netflix who has also worked on books, games and even tarot cards.Read more