Category: Cesare Patterson

Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room: Core Worlds

Core Worlds was published by Stronghold Games in 2011 and was designed by the – rather talented – Andrew Parks. If you just follow its description, Core Worlds probably won’t interest you very much since there are *a lot* of games that sound like it: Deck builder, Science Fiction, Space Exploration. I know, yawn. But…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room: Lords of War

Recently we had the enormous pleasure of interviewing Martin Vaux, one of the co-designers of Lords of War and at the same time we played the game so we could tell him, to his face, what we thought of it. Lords of War is a strategic card game for two players (a four player mode…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Interview Room: Lords of War with Martin Vaux

Lords of War was released to much acclaim at Dragonmeet in December 2012. And I mean to much acclaim because that very next year got the UK Games Expo award for Best Strategic Card Game, along with Lords of War: Dwarves vs. Lizardmen. Expansions have been released and the game is gathering momentum and strength…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room: TRIX

TRIX is a words guessing games from Porcupine Press, an UK-based company with some interesting and friendly titles in their portfolio. Interesting travelling games are always a good thing to have around. Something light enough to be taught in just a few minutes, accessible enough to cater to a wide audience and fun enough to…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room; 1775: Rebellion

Academy Games and its charismatic leader are well known for producing historical games that are, as it happen, easy and fun to play without compromising on historic accuracy. In this case 1775 deals with the the start for the American Revolution after Britain imposes unwelcome new taxes. Yeah… that was me being understating. Anyway, there…
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