Grail Games Now that I think about it, it’s been quite a while since we talked about a new Reiner[…]
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Grail Games Now that I think about it, it’s been quite a while since we talked about a new Reiner[…]
Read moreIn times when a lot of bad things happen, it can be important to remember that we, as a species, have achieved a lot of great things already. We’ve eradicated diseases and developed vaccines for others. We’ve saved the world from a continent full of fascists. We’ve wrestled land enough to build whole countries on from the cold, wet embrace of the seas.
Two of those three things you can experience right now in a Pandemic game. The one we want to look at this week is Pandemic: Rising Tide. With this version of Matt Leacock’s legendary cooperative game you can join one of the world’s biggest engineering project, the Dutch flood control system.
Read moreFantasy Flight Games Let’s face it, the combat system is rarely the most interesting part of a boardgame. Fantasy Flight’s[…]
Read moreThe big question after Pandemic Legacy Season 1 was: How will Season 2 start? Will it assume that we saved the world? That we didn’t? How do you start a second season when everyone’s first season had a different ending?
Well, you’ll have to click to find out. I’m not putting spoilers in the teaser text.
Read moreLibellud Has it been ten years already? This year is Dixit‘s anniversary, and we’ll get to celebrate it with a[…]
Read moreFantasy Flight Games After last week’s preview at the high level workings of Civilization: A New Dawn and its focus[…]
Read moreDue to technical difficulties, the news post from Friday last week is only out this week. We aplogies for the[…]
Read moreDays of Wonder Not all expansions are big, sometimes a small expansion can bring significant changes to a game. The[…]
Read moreLegacy games, games where every time you play you make permanent changes to the game, are the big, new thing. Ever since I heard about Risk Legacy, the founder of the genre, I’ve been thinking what other games would work with the addition of Legacy mechanics, and Pandemic was at the top of that list. Now there is Pandemic Legacy, and we all finally get to find out if I was right.
Read moreWith the amazing, ongoing success of cooperative game Pandemic, it’s no surprise that there are not only a number of expansions but also a few spin-off games with a similar theme and sharing the name. Pandemic: The Cure is one such game, it recreates the classic Pandemic as a dice game: lighter and faster but with all the original’s elements still there.
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