Keep up the Fire! by Victory Point Games
By Mark Rivera from Boardgames in Blighty Designer – John Welch Art – Tim Allen note – Thanks to Victory […]
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Guards! Guards! Play-test review
To start with the game is designed by a small company called Back Spindle Games. By itself, that is a good sign. A brand like the Discworld doesn’t come easily, and for a small company to be able to get that sort of license, they must have made a good impression.
Review – The Alamo Remembered from Victory Point Games
Yep folks, another Alamo game is here, The Alamo Remembered and the 2nd from Victory Point Games. The other is Blood Red Banner: The Alamo – ooohhh, I will have to play that one too and compare…
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Faux-Cabulary review
Fwaposaurus. Hypobushy. Bangoism… What would appear to be a keyboard gone mad or a writer gone drunk, it’s nothing else than the new nouns for new things you never thought needed a name. And what fun is to make them!
The Game Of Redneck Life – Living The Life Of Riley….Bubba Joe Riley, That Is
At Origins, I walked by a booth that had on display, for our amusement, a mullet-topped hilljack with a tobacco stain on his already pit-sweat stained wife-beater tank top. I had to stop and ask what the hell the dude was about.
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Guards! Guards!
My good friend Michael Fox from the Little Metal Dog Show was lucky enough to meet David Brashaw and Leonard Boyd from Backspindle Games at UK Games Expo for a video demo of their long term labour of love, Guards! Guards! which is based on the Terry Pratchett Discworld novel. Michael picked up their prototype and did his review and now its my turn.
Era of Inventions
So here we have, Era of Inventions from Quined Games, a game where you can “explore the lives of Alexander Graham Bell, Karl Benz, the Wright Brothers and other pioneers of invention and experience the thrill of the industrial revolution (as stated in the rules)”.
The Resistance… is NOT futile!
The more I play games, the more I realize how much small game companies are overlooked. The mainstream gaming press tends to gravitate toward the behemoths of the industry; the ones with infinite reviewers to send games to, virtually unlimited marketing resources, the ones who have $50,000 booths at game fairs. That’s fine and dandy, but there’s more than that around. Some of the best games are the overlooked gems that you’ve never heard of, or simply didn’t know enough about to pick up a copy.
Medieval Mastery
Well, Medieval Mastery is a for 2-6 players aged 10+ and involves players in the roles of feudal Kings warring over their lands. You will need to send your knights forth to do battle across various types of terrain , whilst managing resources that are available to you.
Battleship Galaxies: The Saturn Offensive
A week or so ago I received a very advance copy of Battleship Galaxies, one of the most anticipated games of the year, and from the time I opened the box I was mesmerized by the amount of time and detail that the folks up in Pawtucket have put into this game. I have to say that I’m utterly impressed.