Street Masters: Rise of the Kingdom is an attempt to take the underlying design of games like Double Dragon and Final Fight and turn them into a board game (with a lot of miniatures).Read more…
Board Games Are Helping My Wife Recover From Her Traumatic Brain Injury
For some people, board games are only bits of cardboard, wood or plastic. They’re just spaceship models or dungeon maps or dense rulebooks, a bit of fun after a strenuous week at the office. I know they’re more because they helped give me back my wife. After she was critically injured in a car crash, I watched her…
Spy Game Uses 3D Glasses To Hide Secrets In Plain Sight
Red Scare is a new board game about espionage in the Cold War. And it’s built entirely around a very cool hook: it uses old-fashioned 3D glasses to hide spy secrets on the game’s cards.
V-Commandos: The Kotaku Review
V-Commandos is, in everything but name, a board game adaptation of 1998’s stealth strategy game Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines.
Japan-Themed Board Game Gets Over $2 Million On Kickstarter
Let the success of Rising Sun remind you that board games with fancy miniatures do very well on Kickstarter.Read more…
The X-Wing miniatures game is very good.
The X-Wing miniatures game is very good. It can look a little daunting if you’re new to board games, though, so if you’re interested but also a little afraid, this newcomers guide—written by the X-Wing world champion, no less—should help you out.
Sorry Dude, Just Trying To Show Off These Rick & Morty Games, Bro
Because Rick & Morty’s third season won’t be here until the sun explodes, Cryptozoic are releasing a couple of games based on the series to tide people over. One is a board game set in Anatomy Park, the other a deck-building card game about Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind.
Monopoly Is Killing The Thimble
While we’ll have to wait until World Monopoly Day on March 3 to find out which eight game tokens fans voted to include in new editions of the game, one classic player piece has already bit the dust. Say goodbye to the thimble.
Doom: The Board Game: The Kotaku Review
I never thought we’d get a faithful board game adaptation of Doom, of all things, but here we are: Fantasy Flight’s latest dungeon crawler plays just like the heavy metal first-person shooter, only without all the blood.
Haha Look At This Dungeons & Dragons Thing
This is a massive and elaborate GM screen for your Dungeons & Dragons (or any other role-playing game) adventures. For those who want to flex on their tabletop crew.Read more…