Top 10 Board Games for Betraying Your Friends
There’s a tabletop game on Kickstarter at the moment right now called ‘Secret Hitler‘, a game based around advancing your teams agenda without knowing exactly who else is on your team. Also one player...
View ArticleCheap Game Tuesday: ‘Rayman Legends’
‘Rayman’ is a bit of an oddity. He’s never achieved ‘icon’ status or been hailed as a console mascot and would be largely unrecognisable to non-gamers, yet he’s been appearing in games for over a...
View Article10 Tabletop Games We’re Getting in 2016
Ah, 2016. So much to look forward to. For one thing, we’re looking forward to chilling out and playing some of the weird and wonderful games heading our way over the next few months. 10. Hitman Holiday...
View Article10 Awesome Arcade Games That Have Been Forgotten
Home consoles are all well and good but for the best graphics, groundbreaking design and the latest hits you have to hit the arcade…or so it was, 20 years ago. Prior to the Playstation generation the...
View ArticleCheap Game Tuesday: ‘I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream’ iOS
Ok, so I’m about to go on a road trip so let’s see if there’s a decent time waster in the App Store… Candy Crush knock-off, Clash of Clans knock-off, Clash of Clans knock-off, Clash of Clans...
View ArticleTabletop Tuesday: ‘A Study in Emerald’
It’s been 700 years since Cthulhu and the Old Ones crossed the dimensional portal to Earth and took control of the world. The Elder Gods have become royalty, each ruling a major nation through fear and...
View ArticleGame Review: ‘XCOM 2’
I don’t need to buy XCOM 2. There are so many reasons not to. I got 3 new games for Christmas and I haven’t finished any of them. I haven’t even played one of them yet. Not to mention the games on my...
View ArticleTabletop Tuesday: ‘Scoundrel Society’
Do you know what always kicks ass? Awesome and classy thieves. Danny Ocean, Lupin III, Catwoman, Robin Hood, Sly Cooper…these characters bleed coolness. When we read the premise of ‘Scoundrel Society’...
View ArticleCheap Game Tuesday: ‘Superhot’
SUPERHOTSUPERHOTSUPE…sorry, that’s kind of required. This one landed on our radar about two years ago when a free browser demo appeared online. We were instantly taken in by the mechanic for this FPS –...
View ArticleTabletop Tuesday: ‘Ninja Camp’
We’ve already played and fallen in love with two games from Action Phase Games – Heroes Wanted and Scoundrel Society. This week we’re jumping into the second entry in their series of ‘Small Box, Big...
View ArticleCheap Game Tuesday: ‘War of the Monsters’
Ohboy ohboy ohboy!!! Yes, I know that Day of the Tentacle is out and it’s a perfect candidate and I love it but the remastered release price is a bit steep for a game I can finish in my sleep. If you...
View ArticleTabletop Review: ‘Portal: The Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game’
Nothing like a recognisable brand to move a board game off the shelves, one of the reasons this became a hard to find set following Christmas ’15. We’ve given it a couple of plays lately and we can say...
View ArticleTabletop Tuesday: ‘Colt Express’
It’s been a couple of weeks without any board game reviews, but that’s because we just brought in a haul of new titles and have been slowly working through them all! To mark the return of the series:...
View ArticleGame Review: ‘Anima: Gate of Memories’ (PS4 Version)
Well, isn’t this exciting! I’ve never been sent a game to review before! Books, movies, comics, podcasts…never a game. And I love games! Let’s take a look at Anima: Gate of Memories! The name actually...
View ArticleTabletop Tuesday: ‘Kill Doctor Lucky’
As previously mentioned, I was a fan of ‘Cluedo’ (known as ‘Clue’ in the USA) as a child, later moving on to ‘Mystery Express‘ as a more complex and engaging take on the format geared towards...
View ArticleCheap Game Tuesday: ‘Agricola: All Creatures Great and Small’ iOS Edition
For those not part of the tabletop community, ‘Agricola’ is a multiple award winning competitive farming game with player success coming from resource management and worker placement. On each turn the...
View ArticleCheap Game Tuesday: ‘Reigns’– An iOS Game Worth a Damn
Cast your mind back to the simple days of the iPhone 3 and 4…when everything was new and shiny and smart phones were becoming the norm…when indie developers were using this new platform and touchscreen...
View ArticleTabletop Review: ‘The Networks’
Here’s a funky title that turned up at Gen-Con recently…which is on the other side of the planet from us, but fortunately we got a backer copy from the Kickstarter campaign. What caught our attention...
View ArticleCheap Game Tuesday: ‘Inside’
Remember Limbo, that bleak, unsettling platformer that stubbornly refused to explain itself and was heartily enjoyed by all? It came from Playdead Studios, and they’ve returned with their follow up...
View Article10 Times Gamers Got Burned By Pre-Orders
Yesterday I found myself in the local outlet of that massive games retailer (you know the one) exchanging the new Lego Dimension’s ‘Harry Potter’ Team Pack. We’d bought it the previous day but the...
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