
Comic Book Review: The All-Nighter #8
Joy’s attempt to reconnect with her mother goes disatrously wrong, as her sibling discovers her and refuses to believe that her sister has returned after being missing for so many […]
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Joy’s attempt to reconnect with her mother goes disatrously wrong, as her sibling discovers her and refuses to believe that her sister has returned after being missing for so many […]
I’ve been fascinated with tabletop RPGs since the early 80s, as I’ve previously mentioned elsewhere on the blog. Dungeons & Dragons was one of my earliest, post-Star Wars obsessions; the […]
Kingdomino has spun off in a few interesting directions since its release, with Dragomino being just one of several new versions of the game. This one’s aimed at younger players. […]
It’s a shame that card game Lucha Jefe is packaged so minimally, because inside that very unassuming exterior, a clever little game is hiding. Lucha Jefe is a somewhat abstract […]
When Marvel’s parent company, Disney, acquired rival multimedia behemoth 20th Century Fox a few years back, Dark Horse Comics lost their decades-long licensing agreement covering Fox franchise, Alien/Aliens. Naturally, Marvel’s […]
Available now from your friendly local games store, Amazon or directly from Mongoose Publishing A few years back, I became pretty addicted to Rare’s wonderfully emergent, open-world pirate video game […]
A few years ago, fuelled by passionate creators on Kickstarter, I backed a number of cheap, rules-light tabletop RPGs in the hope of finally convincing family and friends to play. […]
Pandemic is a hugely popular game – and the underlying system it runs on has seen it rethemed in a surprising number of non-viral-outbreak-related ways. Following on from what was […]
A perennial favourite of mine since it was released way back in 2010, Zombie Dice – by Steve Jackson Games – is a fast playing, push your luck dice game […]
Having released numerous, well received games for consoles in recent years – including Cyber Protocol, Clumsy Rush, Art Sqool, Little Mouse’s Encyclopedia and much more – indie publisher RedDeer.Games have […]
To this day, Nexus Ops remains one of my favourite board games ever. Though reliant on the luck of dice rolls and, to a lesser extent, card draws, it’s a […]
Classic fantasy adventure board game Talisman was first released in 1983, which means it reaches the ripe old age of 40 this year. So what better time to check out […]
It’s always pretty cool when a game can sell you on it’s entire concept and almost all of its rules just from a brief summary on the box. It’s something […]
On this very day in 1974, the legendary trucker Large Marge lost her life in a tragic road accident. Not really, of course; the ghost of Large Marge is just […]
With the feeling of a classic card game, albeit with a couple of surprising elements that deliver some clever strategic twists, Hungry Monkey is a game that’s straightforward to pick […]
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 […]