Tag: geek

Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

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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IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM BASE OF SPIES.

Want to win a copy of Ace of Spies plus some awesome spy gear? READ THIS NOW: Oh, hello there. I didn’t see you come in. Do take a seat, why don’t you? I’ve called you here today to see if you’re interested in doing a little work for us. Nothing too major, just a…
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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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Podcast episode one is here!

It is with great pleasure that I announce we have our first podcast ever! After quite a few weeks of planning, chatting, playing, recording, editing, learning and enjoying, we have our first podcast uploaded and ready to be heard. In this episode: Interview with Billy Bolt, one of the minds behind PK Cards and inventor…
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Geek is the New Cool

In the last 12 months, I have attended three conventions, Paizocon UK, Dragonmeet and Conception 2011. In the next 12 months I will be attending even more, and I wish I had time to go attend them all! The reason? Gamers are some of the coolest people on the planet.