Category: Martin K. Reed

Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

Video Unboxing – King of New York from Iello

King of Tokyo was a massive success for good reasons. It is a quick, simple, very entertaining, fun and very, very nasty game. Oh and it has kaiju. What’s not to like? But, as you could expect, Richard Garfield wasn’t going stand still and not make it even better, and thus came King of New…
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Video Unboxing – McJohny’s from Czech Board Games

One of the companies I always look forward to seeing when I get to Essen is Czech Board Games, they always have some quirky and fun game that, although hardly have the depth of one of the greatest, they’re always very welcome around the table and more than original in their design. Irreverent, cheeky and…
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Video Unboxing – Exodus: Age of Extinction

When NSKN released Exodus: Proxima Centauri, the game had the makings of an excellent game and when they released the revised edition they proved the point with a slick, deep and hugely enjoyable game that was upgraded in every sense, from components to the size of the box. Now they have released Exoddus: Age of…
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Dice & Slice Episode 3: The Night of the Grand Octopus and Super Rhino

Family games can be rather deceptive sometimes. Behind simple mechanics and quick gameplay, they hide myriad features that can make them super exiting and interesting and these two games we played for this episode are good examples of that. In this episode of Dice & Slice, we played The Night of the Grand Octopus. Release…
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Video Unboxing: Dragon Kings

Dragon Kings was funded in Kickstarter in 2013 with a fairly unrealistic delivery date and the promise of a lot; rulebook, CD with music inspired in the setting, PDFs, posters, more rule books for different systems… But I backed it anyway because the setting sounded fantastic and the artists they had recruited to do some…
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