Reading Time: 4 minutes A couple of weeks ago, we announced our finalists for the Tabletop Game of the Year. There were a lot of great games in the group and a game, we feel, for just about everyone — because families come in all ages! Recently a handful of us got together and played […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Session 81: A Strahd Act to Follow Strahd’s body exploded in a ball of mist. For a second it seemed to form the shape of an old man’s frail body, dragging itself back into the coffin. Then the mist began to sizzle and evaporate in the brilliant light of the Sun […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Session 80: Die Strahd V: A Good Day to Die Strahd Strahd’s brides snarled and hissed, spitting at the heroes. In spite of the bright sunlight shining from Gimble Timbers’ sword, they rushed forward, fearlessly attacking the party. They must protect the master. Within seconds they had separated, each one focusing […]
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Reading Time: 7 minutes You and a few others have survived a plane crash into a ravine—but can you survive until help arrives? Forage for food, build shelter or weapons, and get ready for whatever comes in the night. In “Reaping the Rewards,” I take a look at the finished product from a crowdfunding campaign. Ravine, […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Oddbods Go-Kards is a smart and quirky card-powered racing party game that’s fun for the whole family. This post was sponsored by the Oddbods Kickstarter campaign. Race your characters around the customizable track and use the special effects cards and wild corner events to win the game! Oddbods is a wacky game […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Games and geeks go hand in hand, so it’s no surprise we have a lot of suggestions for this holiday season. Read on for our favorite games of the year. Image: Laurence King Publishing Match a Leaf: A Tree Memory Game Suggested By: Jenny Bristol Mfg: Laurence King Publishing Price: $16.99 […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s December, so it’s time to start thinking about the very best things of this year. We have picked our favorite games for 2018 and soon we’ll choose the one that will receive our Game of the Year award. In the meantime, please have a look at our list of nominees […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Dungeon of the Mad Mage is the latest Dungeons & Dragons campaign from Wizards of the Coast and is it HUGE! This is the mega-dungeon of whisper and rumor and it has finally been released for 5th Edition. Dungeon of the Mad Mage Ever since a brief interlude in Hoard of […]
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Reading Time: 9 minutes If you haven’t yet picked up the Nintendo Switch, there’s never been a better time. With Black Friday sales looming (and the arrival of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate imminent), it’s pretty much become the holiday must-have for gamer families. Still, buying a new console often requires research. It takes time and […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes This post was sponsored by Tembo Games. In Kaboom Universe, you are the little green alien trying to save Earth’s dinosaurs from extinction. You must strategize to pick up dinosaurs and protect them from the falling meteors, all the while your opponents may be deflecting the meteors headed for their dinos […]
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Reading Time: 10 minutes (Picture by Logan Giannini) When I was a little kid my family was good friends with another family who happened to have two girls of almost exactly the same age as my older brother and I. We would get together multiple times each week, play games, go to the park, and […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Those of us of a certain age can be a bit nostalgic for the BASIC era, the same way we are for rotary dial phones. BASIC was never flashy (pun intended), but it was fun, straight forward, and accessible to kids with no more than a basic understanding of how computers […]
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Reading Time: 12 minutes RPGs came about in a time when so many things didn’t exist: pre-World of Warcraft, pre-HBO-Game of Thrones, and pre-internet. In those early days, players sat down and let their imaginations provide the imagery, the sounds, and the story. All you needed was some paper and a pencil (often the GM […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Hippo is a tiny, pocket-sized game. Photo: Jonathan H. Liu Let’s take a dip in the pool with Mr. Hippo! Hippo is another cute, pocket-sized game from Helvetiq. What Is Hippo? Hippo is an easy dice game for 2 to 4 players, ages 6 and up, and takes about 15 minutes to […]
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Reading Time: 11 minutes It’s a hard life, being a bee. Build your honeycomb, breed new workers, and store up honey, because winter is coming. What Is Bee Lives: We Will Only Know Summer? Bee Lives: We Will Only Know Summer is a worker placement game for 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up, […]
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Last year, a little game called Azul took the gaming world by storm. Every game has its detractors, but Azul was an overwhelming success, quickly selling through its initial print run and going on to win numerous, prestigious industry awards. So, naturally, all eyes were on publisher Next Move Games for […]
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As investigators in Arkham, you must visit a series of horrific locations, trying to solve their mysteries and save the world before Cthulhu arrives and wraps you in his terminal embrace. Insanity is only a dice roll away, and you’ll be forced to complete your investigation …. without losing your marbles. What Is Tower […]
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Archaelogists seek out the valuable scarab amulets in various locations, each trying to collect the most relics in their dig site. Who will uncover the mysteries of Scarabya? What Is Scarabya? Scarabya is a tile-laying game for 1 to 4 players, ages 8 and up, and takes about 20 minutes to play. It was released at […]
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LEGO has an amazing track record of making funny, family-friendly, and enjoyable action/puzzle games associated with all sorts of movie and TV franchise tie-ins, and this one looks to be more of the (really good) same. This times, it’s all the DC villains forced to band together to save their world from Darkseid. What’s best […]
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Photograph by Sara Blackburn. In Caper, two criminal masterminds duel to assemble the best team of Thieves and Gear to steal valuable goods from some of the poshest European locales. What Is Caper? Caper is a card-drafting, hand-trading game in which players earn Victory Points by selecting advantageous combinations of Thieves and Gear. It’s for […]
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