Category: The Boardgames Interview Room

Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

Podcast episode – The Boardgame Review Room: Scoville with Ed Marriott

I have learned to trust Michael Chamberlain when is about games. He kinda knows things I don’t. Tons of things. One of the things he knows how to do is spot great ideas and great sounding games in Kickstarter, and that’s exactly what he has done with Scoville. We got together with Ed Marriot and…
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Podcast Episode – The Board Game Interview Room with Uwe Eickert

Many people hear the words “historical games” and immediately get the unavoidable urge to yawn. Loudly. Yet, Academy Games has challenged that yawn reaction time and time again, and time and time again they’ve been successful. With an impressive collection of games of which their series Conflict of Heroes continues to succeed and draw new…
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Podcast episode – The Boardgame Interview Room: Chaosmos

By Paco Garcia Jaen Apocalypses are something that all sorts of media have been attracted to and using all the time. For a long, long time books, movies, theatre, games… This game, Chaosmos, takes the apocalypse to a new level because it is the universe that’s about to end, not just a world that’s about…
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Podcast episode – The Board Game Interview Room: Argent: The Consortium by Level 99 Games

Level 99 has been a company I’ve been very keen on since I learned about Brad Talton some three years ago. I backed their Kickstarter project for Mystic Empyrean and since they’ve had a whole load of projects that have been successful, which is pretty good!

Podcast Episode–The Boardgame Interview Room: Fortress Moon Kickstarter

By Paco Garcia Jaen Some of us like the sort of retro Sci-Fi look from the 50s and 60s and also love the movies from that time. As someone who’s first sci-fi experience was Forbidden Planet, the cheesy and wonderful future imagined at the time was, and indeed still is, incredibly attractive. That’s one of…
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