Board Game Review: Talisman: Star Wars (2021)
The original Talisman fantasy board game was first released in 1983, which means it celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Though, as you may expect from a game that made […]
Board Game Review: Heroclix – X of Swords Miniatures Game (Starter Set)
Heroclix has been around in one form or another since 2002, remarkably. It’s a miniatures game that’s suitable for beginners, players of all ages or just those gamers who are […]
Video Game Review: Taito Milestones (Switch)
There aren’t many video games companies who have left such an indelible mark on the industry at the level that Taito have; Space Invaders alone is a title that, to […]
Kickstarter Spotlight: Thunder Road: Vendetta
Though the 1986 Milton Bradley game Thunder Road – which brought Mad Max-esque, post-apocalyptic vehicular combat on an endless stretch of highway to the tabletop – isn’t the most famous […]
Board Game Review: Dungeons & Dragons: The Adventure Begins
The 5th Edition of perennially popular TTRPG Dungeons & Dragons has brought it to new levels of popularity, with more accessible rulesets that cater for an awful lot of diversity […]
Review: Alphalink
If you wanted another reason to be depressed about your own lack of productivity during the lockdown(s) of 2020, here’s one: the wife and husband team that comprise Black Hive […]
Review: Data East Collection 1 (Evercade Cartridge 03)
When I hear the Data East name, I tend to think of beat ’em ups like Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja (which, for the longest time, I thought was just called […]
Review: Battleship
UbiSoft and Hasbro teamed up in 2016 to bring some of the board game publisher’s best known tabletop games to consoles. With a long and seemingly close partnership with EA […]
Review: Star Wars: Squadrons (Campaign)
Priced reasonably and aimed at the multiplayer market rather than single player, Star Wars: Squadrons seemed to arrive with little fanfare last year to a response best described as muted. […]
Board Game Review: Minecraft: Builders & Biomes
Minecraft is a genuine phenomenon; since the paid alpha released in 2009 – before the first full release in November 2011 – the game has sold 200 million copies and […]
Kickstarter: Sniper Elite – The Board Game
I was late to the party with Rebellion’s hugely popular, long-running Sniper Elite series. The first one I played was Sniper Elite 3; I was immediately blown away by the open nature of each stage and the huge variety on offer with which to cause gory, sometimes painfully detailed, chaos. The Sniper Elite games see players cast as – spoiler […]
Board Game Review: Dungeon Mayhem: Monster Madness
My love for Dungeons & Dragons is well documented at this point. I’ve spoken many, many times about how my very first D&D set was the lovely Basic D&D starter set in its iconic red box edition in the mid-80s. Full of wonderfully bizarre and unique monsters such as the Gelatinous Cube and Owlbear – alongside more ‘standard’ creatures such […]
Review: Concept Destruction
One of the best early PlayStation games that I played was Destruction Derby – a glorious demolition derby game which – for its time – had some very impressive damage modelling on the cars, making it incredibly satisfying to smash up the many opponents in the arena while trying to keep yours as blemish free as possible (spoiler: this was […]
Review: Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Version Played: Xbox One (Xbox One X Enhanced) – also available on PS4 and PC Lockdown is a funny thing. I wouldn’t normally have had the time to work my way through a single Tomb Raider game in a reasonable period of time, let alone an entire trilogy. Yet that’s exactly what I’ve been able to do over the last […]
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