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Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

Quackalope and unethical behaviour

The GMS Magazine Podcast: Quackalope and ethics in gaming media

We talk about Quackalope and their unethical behaviour toward game publishers.

Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room: Eclipse

Since its release, Eclipse has seen a lot of success. It’s *very* highly regarded by people who play it and the digital version of the game is truly superb, it has to be said. Of course it’s not a game for everyone. It’s rules heavy, long and very, very deep with tons of things to…
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The G*M*S Magazine podcast episode 68–Codinca with David Brashaw

Once again, just to make sure you don’t forget about us, another episode of the podcast ready for your enjoyment.

Recently Kickstarter was discussed in the Boardgame Geek website. As most BGG discussion, it was heated and it was intense. This time some people were claiming that Kickstarter is ruining podcasts because we only talk Kickstarter things these days.

Unboxing: Air Show

By Paco Garcia Jaen Last year, at Spiel, this game took the Boardgame Geek ranks by storm to the point that the publishers, Gen X, run out of copies to sell two days before the show ended. Quite a nice problem to have! I managed to get my hands on one copy at last on…
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How to behave in a pathetic way

By Paco Garcia Jaen Recently I read this post in the Boardgamegeek website and the comments that it enthused. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/718975/an-open-letter-to-games-workshop-let-the-campaign How thoroughly disappointing to read some of these comments. Let me see if I have made sense of this. Someone gets pissed off because they believe (rightly) that Games Workshop are extorting the hobby and…
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