Mosaics are a very interesting form of decorative art. By themselves each piece of material isn’t much to look at, but place them in a pattern and they make some astounding works of art. In my twisted gaming mind, I think of board games that use the …
This week we are taking a look at the eurogame currently in funding on Kickstarter: Canterbury. The designers of Canterbury already have a proven track record of producing quality games. Some of their past titles have included Core Worlds, Parthenon, C…
It feels like every day we are talking about a “hot new dungeon crawler” on the market. It’s a theme that has gotten a lot of love lately, and I’m OK with that. To be honest, I have been a fan of dungeon crawling board games sin…
Playing at Mantic’s Open Day DreadBall tournament this weekend reminded me once again of what a fantastic game DreadBall really is. DreadBall is fun, fast, furious and (almost) always exciting up to the very last turn (or “Rush“, as D…
Games Workshop has released Talisman Prologue, an app for tablets and smartphones based on its old Talisman board game (now produced by Fantasy Flight Games). Games Workshop has dealt out licenses to various smaller app and tablet-game developers, so i…
The board gaming world has no shortage of dungeon crawlers. From heavy hitters like Descent 2e to lighter games like Dungeon!, there seems to be something for everybody. Catacombs introduced us to the idea of a dexterity based dungeon crawler and IR…
This week we are taking a look at one of the more popular type of games that have been appearing on Kickstater lately: The miniatures game. With the rousing success that was Zombicide, games with a pile of nice looking minis are selling like hotcakes r…
Every year it seams the world is under attack by some new virus, disease or a new Kardashian show that we have no cure for and will decimate all life, as we know it. With the potential of these catastrophic events on the horizon, I’m looking at you E…
In this Box Breaking Matt takes a look at Zpocalypse. Zpoc is a semi-cooperative board game that take place in a post apocalyptic world. The game lends both a tactical miniatures feel and RPG flavors to create a unique game experience. You can learn everything there is to know about [...]
It’s time to go back to feudal Japan. His majesty the Emperor of Japan has just been given the gift of a rare panda bear by the Chinese Emperor. His highness has entrusted you to care for this animal and to cultivate the bamboo gardens where he l…
The Duke $34.95 SRP The Dukeis a dynamic, tile-based strategy game with an old-world, feudal theme, high-quality wooden playing pieces, and an innovative game mechanism in its double-sided tiles. Each side represents a different posture – often considered to be defensive or offensive – and demonstrates exactly what the piece can do within the turn. [...]
Right now one of the hot board games on the horizon is BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia. From all appearances, this is shaping up to be an excellent board game. It’s not often that a license can produce both a fantastic board game and great v…
Whenever I move, I think it’s the biggest hassle in the world. Packing everything up, changing addresses, and meeting the new neighbors. It all makes me cringe. But when I step back and think about it, we have it easy compared to what oth…
Every now and then I come across a game that makes me sit up and pay attention. And every now and then I come across a game that makes me want to cower under my duvet with a bottle of aspirin. Horus Heresy from Fantasy Flight Games kind of does both. Let me explain; Horus [...]
DreadBall Games Designer Jake Thornton takes a look over the design decisions behind the Pelgar Mystics. There are two teams which have grown out of my initial idea for a single MVP, and the Judwan are the first to be released. From day one they’ve been an experiment in the extreme end of what’s possible [...]
If you wander over to Kickstarter, a website I’m sure most of you check daily now thanks to the sheer volume of start-ups, you’ll see a board game called Spy or Die Trying from Warm Acre. Warm Acre, for those not in the know, occupy a soft spot in my heart because they produce games [...]
Back in 1999, the world was abuzz with the release of the first Star Wars movie in a very long time: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Looking back, that movie really wasn’t very good. However, in addition to spawning a whole new line of toys and ac…
Most of you probably already know that I’m a great fan of Phil Eklund’s space exploration/exploitation game High Frontier, and when I started looking into more games of his Bios: Megafauna immediately caught my attention. In it you take control of a gr…
It’s something I’m fairly used to by now but it’s still interesting to see my interests shift after a period of intensive ameritrash filled gaming. This time the trigger was two six player games of Twilight Imperium played in close succession – it’s on…
I was planning to write this update from my computer once the internet was finally connected but as it happens the boat that was carrying the wires to do that has been attacked by Somalis pirates and I’m therefore waiting to hear more about It fr…
Amber Release Date: Coming Soon $ 26.60 In Amber, players take the role of the barons, and their goal is to build trade routes that connect their castles to the villages where the amber is collected, and to the other barons’ castles where it is traded. To this end, players build roads through the wilderness [...]
The Cave Release Date: Coming Soon $ 49.00 In The Cave, a board game from K2 author Adam Kaluza, players take on the role of a speleologist team tasked with exploring a newly discovered cave. Players start from a base and explore a cave, tunnel after tunnel, effectively building the board (the cave). They have to overcome [...]
Twilight Imperium in full swing!Hello out there! Sorry for the lack of updates recently. You might remember I said I’d post a tactics article on how to play the with the Rebel fleet in X-Wing. Unfortunately I chose to type it out in Word for some reaso…
A small commission has come through to paint the Kraken from the Cyclades board game to a hero level.
I’ve recently purchased a light box with a new setup for the camera. I’m still getting a handle on the right settings to put the camera at to get the best lighting so excuse the darker [...]
I signed up to three or crowdfunding projects last year. So far they have all come good! The two I am going to look at today are the ones I have most recently received the good for. First off, we have Wolsung, a Steampunk Skirmish game produced by Micr…