Interview with Artem Safarov – Unbroken

Unbroken was one of the hits of Kickstarter this year and with it almost ready to come out, I was given a great opportunity to speak with it designer, Artem Safarov, about him and the process that led to Unbroken being made. Where did you get your start in the board games industry, are you […]

The Essen Anticipation List 2018!

Unfortunately, this website doesn’t allow for international travel just yet, so attendance at Essen this year is off the cards but that doesn’t stop us from talking about the releases that we are looking forward to. With over 800 titles being released, it is definitely a mammoth task to keep ahead of the games, but we have […]

Hero Master: An Epic Game of Epic Fails

A little while back we spoke with Jamie Noble-Frier, an illustrator also known as The Noble Artist, who was working on his own game to launch on Kickstarter (here is the link to the campaign). Well the day has come and the game will go live this week on the 18th of September to the […]

Love Letter review

Love Letter is another one of those games where I was initially put off by the theme, but once that is put aside a whole new world is there to discover. The idea of courtesans in Renaissance times just seems so boring to to me, I just can’t wrap my head around that theme. You know how […]

orleans review

Orleans review

A deep and immersive Euro game, with an easy and intuitive to learn rule set? You’ve got to be joking! But wait, what’s that I hear? The sound of milk being churned for butter and silk being spun for brocade? That’s right, if you haven’t guessed, Orleans fits the bill! Orleans is set in medieval […]

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Best travel board games

Best Travel Board Games Travel can be difficult, between the time in actual transit to sitting in airports or waiting areas there is a lot of lost time, especially for gaming. There is also limited space to play, so we are going to look at some of the best travel board games, those that can […]

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Mistakes in Gloomhaven

We have written a bit on Gloomhaven in the past, mainly due to it being so popular, but we thought that Mistakes in Gloomhaven was probably another good addition to the current articles that we have written. The rules are pretty easy to follow for Gloomhaven, however due to the sheer amount of them there […]

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Interview with Steve Jackson

This week I got a chance to have an interview with Steve Jackson, of Steve Jackson Games, and seriously him and his team are some of the coolest people that I have come across in the industry, not only did they provide me their time for the interview, but they also dropped me a snippet […]

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Best Podcasts for Boardgames

There are more and more podcasts out there every week seemingly on the topic of board, tabletop and role playing games, so we thought that we would round up some of our favourites: Shut Up and Sit Down – Three guys who run the Shut Up and Sit Down website and have a passion from […]

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Kickstarter of the week 27th July

Back again with Kickstarters of the week after a week off and there is some great stuff out there at the moment, but after the last few weeks of ‘bigger is better’ and the problem with Kickstarter and scams, I decided that we would take a bit of a different approach to this. What we […]