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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.

Should Players Give Smaller CCG’s a Chance?

I have made friends with and been part of some CCG companies in the past few years. In this time I have noticed the same problem for these upstart CCG companies. Thought the games are cool and the artwork is awesome, players just don’t seem to want to give new games a chance. I asked myself and players, Why?