Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Citadels is an easy but fun card game where the players compete to construct the most impressive city by amassing wealth to spend building various districts (docks, university, cathedrals, etc). The game ends when a player plays an eighth district then everyone's city is scored (and certain bonuses added) to ...
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
I think it is best to say two things right up front : firstly, The Spoils is a collectable card game just like Magic the Gathering. If you are not familiar with this form of gaming the rest of this review is going to be impenetrable, but in short each ...
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
A motley band of adventurers descends into the inky darkness of the caverns in the quest for the fabulous artefact rumoured to lie somewhere deep within. Working together they should be more than a match for the terrifying creatures that wait in the shadows, but each member knows that only ...
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
I love the Settlers of Catan board game, so when an iPod version appeared in the App Store for $6.49 I grabbed it straight away. Dubbed "Catan - The First Island", the app includes everything in the core game, I assume more games based on the Catan expansions are on ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
If you are getting a bunch of guys together to play a board game, you may as well make it a nerdy one. Battlestar Gallactica (BSG) is the board game version of the recent TV show of the same name, and is the best game tie-ins that I have ever ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Another Sunday, another board game - this time something a bit more ambitious. Various ancient and powerful races are vying for control of the galaxy, some through aggressive conquest while others have more subtle methods. Vast fleets push their way through the inky voids between stars while each race uses ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Monday was Queen's Birthday, and how better to celebrate the life of our monarch than by inviting a bunch of guys around to play board games. Nigel turned up with a game called Origins : How We Became Human which is no less than a recreation of 100,000 years of ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
This is a review of a very geeky game, so those not interested can view some pictures of animals by clicking on this bear:
Still with me? Talisman is a board game with a premise similar to Dungeons and Dragons. Each player takes a archetypal character (Warrior, Elf, etc) with certain ...
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
It seems this sleepy midwestern all-american town has become infested with the stumbling undead. Sure, they are slow and stupid, but there are a lot (A LOT!) of them, and only one of you. Right now you are at the town square, you are pretty sure there is a helicopter ...
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
Trichotomy initial setup
This is a picture of an unusual chess-based game called Trichotomy that my friend John owns. As the picture and the name suggest, Trichotomy is played with three players, each trying to checkmate the player to their left. John bought the game years ago from the designer himself, ...
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