Fantasy Flight Games Honor counts for a lot in the world of Legend of the Five Rings, but not everyone[…]
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Fantasy Flight Games Honor counts for a lot in the world of Legend of the Five Rings, but not everyone[…]
Read moreIs it really that time of the year again already? I could swear we just had an Essen fair, and suddenly the jury is announcing Spiel des Jahres nominees. Time does fly when you’re having more new boardgame releases than anyone could ever play. But here it is, and so we’re going to do what I guess most of you want: tell you about the nominees!
Read moreOur first review of a 2016 Essen game is, by necessity, of a light game. We have to play it a couple of times, after all. Futschikato / Fuji Flush, a card game by Friedemann Friese, is as light as any game we ever reviewed, but nevertheless is a really fun game. That’s all thanks to one small twist: low cards can gang up on high cards. No matter how good your card is, you can never feel safe.
Read moreDark Flight Games A small, quirky puzzle game for for people with good spatial visualization skill is new on Kickstarter[…]
Read moreIello Admit it, most of you still hope that letter telling you to attend magic school is still coming. Maybe[…]
Read moreRio Grande Games Without much information about its contents, we learned last week that Rio Grande Games will release an[…]
Read moreMatagot The French publisher will have some new games in Essen this year: a quick abstract game, an interesting thematic[…]
Read moreAlderac Entertainment This picture is the first and, for now, only teaser for the next Smash Up expansion, coming next[…]
Read moreWhat comes out when you take two popular games, add some dashes of more games, and then run that mix through a cocktail shaker? That’s what Friedemann Friese wanted to know when he created Copycat from odds and ends of the Top Ten games on BoardGameGeek. And what came out … well, read for yourself.
Read moreCryptozoic Mark and Joan Wilkenson’s Mod X has little to do with Cryptozoic’s usual lineup – no fantasy, no wackyness,[…]
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