Card Game Review – Shephy
By Paco Garcia Jaen I believe there is no such thing as a dull theme for a game if the […]
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Boardgame Review – Lord of the Rings living card game.
By Evaldas Bladukas Today my friends we venture into lands wrought with peril and danger, where many board game fans
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Card Game Review – Bedtime Heroes
By Paco Garcia Jaen Although children can get jolly scared when they have a nightmare, more often than not they
Card Game Review – Hanabi
By Michael Chamberlain Do you think with the help of friends you could sort coloured cards numbered from one to
Card Game Review – Fleet
By Michael Chamberlain Fleet, released in 2012 and published by Gryphon from designers Benjamin Pinchback and Matthew Riddle is a
Unexploded Cow
Unexploded Cow has been around since 2001. It has just received a lovely reprint in March this year (2013) and on the advice of a friend who told me it was great fun, I gave it a try. The theme for this game is one of the more joyously off the wall I have encountered. It is, in short an answer to what you do when the cows in England are mad (BSE) and there are too many unexploded bombs in France.
Sentinels of the Multiverse
Sentinels has done a wonderful job of making a name for itself since it surprised everyone in 2011. Each of its expansions seems to have been very well received and I was accordingly very pleased to get to borrow this one. The cooperative game is themed around being comic book super heroes fighting a variety of villains in a variety of environments and this theme pervades every aspect of the game.
MTG Latest Duel Deck – Sorin Vs Tibalt
Magic The Gathering is a card game that continues to release numerous new collections of cards for fans and players
Coup
Much as technology and my bank balance tend toward miniaturization, there seems to have been a recent trend for compact, fast but beautifully formed games, ‘microgames’ I believe the kids are calling them. The poster boy, or rather poster princess, for these recent offerings is undoubtedly the well-regarded Love Letter, a game that revolves around you passing a note of affection to the object of your amorous desires without the knowledge and interference of your fellow players. Brilliant.
[Review] Phantom
One thing that became very obvious to me from an early age is that ghosts stories tend to be tragic ones. If anything because they involve someone’s death. But I also learned that they make great stories.
Phantom is Ludonaute’s attempt to mix great story with great gaming and for that they’ve come up with a ghosts story.