Today holds disappointing news for fantasy adventure fans. The latest attempt to adapt Wizards of the Coast's popular and highly influential fantasy TTRPG, D&D: Honor Among Thieves will be taking…
November 4, 2022 | 03:23 EDT
Last August, Fantasy Flight Games announced Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game. It was a brief trailer, a small footnote in their GenCon presentation at the time alongside other projects they were…
November 3, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
An official The Last of Us board game adaptation is in development. Naughty Dog's critically acclaimed action horror series has gripped players around the world thanks to grounded, humanistic…
November 1, 2022 | 03:20 EDT
Back when I first reviewed Power Rangers: The Deck-Building Game, I commented on how aggressive the game could get. A bit of luck and some ferocious synergy can lead to matches where a lot of endgame…
November 2, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Games Workshop have announced Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Nemesis. This is the second expansion to Games Workshop's best-selling board game, one where players enter the city of Ulfenkarn and…
October 25, 2022 | 03:44 EDT
Magic: The Gathering has only continued to grow. Parent company Hasbro has recently released new financial information about their various properties for the third financial quarter of 2022. Some of…
October 18, 2022 | 03:48 EDT
CMON Entertainment have announced an Iron Maiden Zombicide crossover. The tabletop publisher has a history of introducing different characters into their survival horror franchise. These have…
October 17, 2022 | 04:49 EDT
Reprints of Axis & Allies and Diplomacy are on the way. Renegade Game Studios have officially announced that they are in negotiations to expand their licensing partnership with Hasbro. As a part…
October 6, 2022 | 03:14 EDT
Back in 1982, Sir Ian Livingstone produced a Judge Dredd board game. Officially titled Judge Dredd: The Game of Crime Fighting In Mega-City One, the game was seen as a board game classic. Given that…
October 3, 2022 | 03:36 EDT
Over the years, I have played a metric truckload of cooperative board games, and cooperative dungeon crawlers in particular. In fact, I'd say that coop dungeon crawlers are probably my favorite genre…
October 24, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
Check out our Between Two Cities review to get our opinion on the latest modern classic from Stonemaier Games. Between Two Cities Review - City Builder Between Two Cities, designed by Ben Rosset…
December 15, 2015 | 11:00 EST
Frontier Stations is a cooperative game published by Victory Point Games and designed by Jeremy Lennert, the publisher/designer team that created one of my all-time favorite games, another…
December 1, 2015 | 11:00 EST
I enjoy cooperative games for a number of reasons. The best cooperative games often tell memorable stories, and many are difficult, which provides a fun layer of tension that builds as the game…
November 24, 2015 | 11:00 EST
If you like two players' tactical combat, then you should take a close look at Titans Tactics. A quick, three-on-three fight for supremacy, Titans Tactics is laser-focused on quick, tactical battles…
November 17, 2015 | 11:00 EST
Space exploration and colonialist expansion—two themes that are prevalent in the 4X genre of board games, and while many excellent games have used those themes in the past, March of the Ants chooses…
November 10, 2015 | 11:00 EST
The first time that I played Pocket Imperium, I played with just one other player, and the game felt tense and exciting. My opponent and I were constantly trying to outguess and outmaneuver each…
September 15, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
When I spoke with Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot designer Ignacy Trzewiczek at GenCon 2015, he described the game as being about fun and happiness. I'm happy to say that I can confirm that Rattle,…
September 1, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
The first two missions of The Undercity left me feeling like the gameplay was going to be a reflection of the board: functional but bland. The third mission had an interesting task to complete and…
August 25, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
Viceroy is an odd duck. It has wonderful plumage and is absolutely beautiful to look at, but when it opens its little duck beak to quack, the sound that escapes is more akin to a structured symphony…
August 11, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
Mage Knight is a board game published by Wizkids that mixes some elements of deck building and RPG with the option for the players to play competitively, cooperatively or even solo. As fellow raptor…
August 2, 2015 | 06:03 EDT
I'm quite fond of Sentinels of the Multiverse. I enjoy the cooperative card-driven gameplay, the superhero theme, and the characters who give a wink and nod to existing popular comic book characters…
July 28, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
Get ready to pull a gun on your family. Get ready to threaten, coerce, bribe, and pay off these same people, and be prepared to actually make those threats a reality when push comes to shove. Get…
July 21, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
Three Kingdoms Redux is a fascinating game. Set in the Three Kingdoms period of China, which should be immediately familiar to anyone who has played any of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms video…
July 14, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
When my wife told me that she wanted to buy Thunder Alley, I was wary at first. It looked heavier than most of the games she prefers, and while she watched some NASCAR when she was younger, I've…
July 3, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
I have a confession to make. While I love board games of all genres, there is one incredibly popular game that I hate with a fiery passion. I cannot stand Ticket to Ride. It appeals to so many…
June 30, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
Noir: Black Box Edition, designed by D. Brad Talton Jr. and published by Level 99 Games, is intense and exciting and offers great value in its small package. Consisting of just a few decks of cards…
June 23, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
Prepare to suspect your friends, your family, your pets, your spouse and that guy that you sometimes see at the gym who gives you a spot even when you don't really need one, but you are too polite to…
June 16, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
We Have Goats is a tile-based racing game where two to four players compete to be the first to return their goats to their goat pen. Although it's certainly not a heavy game, We Have Goats manages to…
June 5, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Stonemaier Games' Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia is a surprising and surprisingly fun game. Cast as a member of the Dystopian elite, each player will be racing to spread their authority throughout…
April 21, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
Mage Knight is an excellent game and one of the absolute best board games available for solitary play. The Lost Legion expansion for Mage Knight not only introduces great new ways to play the game…
April 14, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
Scoundrels of Skullport is an awesome expansion for the TechRaptor-approved board game Lords of Waterdeep. Published by Wizards of the Coast, Scoundrels of Skullport is a modular expansion that adds…
April 7, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
Relic, by Fantasy Flight Games, is a re-theme and reworking of the Talisman game system. Relic is set in Games Workshop's Warhammer 40000 universe and tasks players with exploring the Antian Sector…
March 24, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
Marvel Dice Masters: Uncanny X-Men is a two-player 'dice-building' combat game from WizKids in which players will be using a team of superheroes and villains from Marvel Comic's Uncanny X-Men to…
February 24, 2015 | 11:00 EST
If you like Star Wars and you like board games, then you definitely want Star Wars: Imperial Assault by Fantasy Flight Games in your collection. If for some reason you are sitting on the fence about…
February 17, 2015 | 12:00 EST
Publisher Fantasy Flight Games and designer Eric Lang have figured out how to put pain in a box and it’s glorious! This last week I picked up XCOM The Board Game and had the opportunity to make…
February 9, 2015 | 01:00 EST
Shadows of Brimstone by Flying Frog Productions is an awesome, fully cooperative, campaign-driven game with persistent characters who level up, gain new loot, mutate horribly and risk death over the…
February 3, 2015 | 11:00 EST
Race around Jamaica! Feed your crew! Fight your friends! Steal their treasure! Hope that treasure isn't cursed! Read our Jamaica review! Today we are looking at Jamaica published by Asmodee /…
January 7, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Cast spells! Throw Fireballs! Teleport! Eat a wall! Read the Wiz-War board game review! Today we are looking Wiz-War, published by Fantasy Flight Games. Wiz-War is a non-tactical combat game for 2-4…
December 24, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Assign your agents! Recruit adventurers! Acquire gold! Complete quests! Hide your true identity from your friends! Read the Lords of Waterdeep Review! Today we are looking at Lords of Waterdeep,…
December 17, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Pick a class! Move 5 spaces! Fight monsters! Gather treasure! Laugh at your friend's misfortune! Read the Dungeon! board game review! Today we are taking a look at the board game Dungeon! published…
December 10, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Choose your ship! Set sail! Trade goods! Raid merchants! Blow your friends out of the water! Read the Merchants and Marauders review! Today we are looking at Merchants and Marauders, published by Z-…
December 3, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Fight monsters! Cast spells! Level up! Conquer cities! Burn down monasteries! Read the Mage Knight Board Game Review! Today we are looking at the Mage Knight board game published by Wizkids. Mage…
November 26, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Plot! Scheme! Stab your friends in the back! Sentence a man to death! Read our Spartacus A Game of Blood and Treachery Review! Before I get started with the review proper, I want to point out…
November 19, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Travel the world! Solve mysteries! Fight monsters! Suffer a leg wound! Go insane! Read the Eldritch Horror review! Today we’re looking at Eldritch Horror, published by Fantasy Flight Games. Eldritch…
November 5, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Fireside games, publisher of Castle Panic, are releasing a new iteration. Neither a sequel nor an expansion, Munchkin Panic is a mashup of Castle Panic’s cooperative struggle to survive and Munchkin’…
August 27, 2014 | 10:00 EDT