Category: Board Games

Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

El Grande

This game won the Game of the Year award at Essen in 1997. This seems like a long, long time ago, and was well before I really knew what a eurogame was. El Grande is a eurogame. It sports many of the characteristics of one, including an emphasis on scoring points, a points track around…
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Metro

Ever arrived in a foreign city, decided to go down into the underground to get from A to B, taken one look at the map and decided: “Er, maybe not”? If you’ve ever been to Tokyo, you will know what I mean. Paris by contrast is less of a challenge. Metro is a boardgame inspired…
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Space Hulk 3rd Edition

A long time ago, probably in some part of my far, far, away memory… i used to play a lot of Space Hulk. The very first edition (with it’s expansions). I tried the second edition once, when it was released. (The second edition was just the equivalent of the first edition box, without it’s expansions…
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Cross the Threshold 3: The latest expansion for Arkham Horror is now on sale

Through the murky streets of Arkham, unnatural gates are opening to connect our world with strange other dimensions. Out of the depths of these eldritch pathways have begun to crawl profane creatures that even now haunt the innocent, dragging away the unwary and causing havoc on silent midnight streets. At the epicenter of this living…
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