On the whole, I wasn’t overly impressed with the offering at the UK Games Expo this year. I really enjoyed myself at the convention, but in terms of exciting new games to try, there...
Arise from your wage-dorms, cast aside your warm Doges and your dower mags, and if you are a gambler apply some wager-mods. This post will be no sog-warmed amalgamation of mowed rags, no sad...
The Spiel nominees were announced recently and one of the surprise nominations was a game called Heaven & Ale. It’s been nominated for the Kennerspiel des Jahres – the “Strategy Game of the Year”...
Being an extremely dedicated blogger who takes his work seriously, I went on holiday and ended up not having time to finish the post I was supposed to put up. On the subject of...
I picked up a copy of The City of Kings recently. I tasked my son with punching out all of the components (fortunately, he’s still young enough to be enthusiastic about this!) and I...
Boardgaming, as a hobby, is rarely controversial. People get together, play games and generally enjoy themselves. People have very different tastes in games of course, but when one group of people say a game...
There are an awful lot of boardgame projects on Kickstarter at any one time (currently 270 as I write this), with new ones appearing every day. How do you keep track? Well, to help...
AGED WORMS The traditional image of someone who plays word games is the retired bookworm, sitting in their dusty study in their slippers playing a very slow game of Scrabble against themselves. And of...
Ra is one of my favourite Reiner Knizia games, which is saying a lot. Reiner Knizia is a great designer and has designed a staggering number of games. I think it is probably the...
What happens if you design a game, show it to a publisher and then they steal your idea and make the game without you?! Is there anything you can do? As a designer, do...
