Personally, I have never tried to bribe a pirate. I understand that some people may enjoy the activity, and in principle I am not opposed to it, but it just doesn’t appeal to me...
When I was a student, I remember getting together with a bunch of other students to play Talisman. A friend of mine used to play it a lot as a child and reckoned we’d...
As a fully trained physicist, I know the secret of explaining something well: you just have to remember that the most important thing you need to get across is how much smarter you are...
I was playing Near and Far last night. It’s a worker-placement game crossed with an adventure game. Having collected various resources and hired companions in town, you venture off into the wilderness and have...
Does the theme of a game really matter, or is it all about the mechanics?
I’ve never really been into roll-and-write games. I played plenty of Yahtzee as a kid, which was fine, but the whole system felt outdated to me. However, roll-and-write games seem to have made something...
Terra Mystica two, or “Gaia Project” as it’s being marketed, is so similar to Terra Mystica that I haven’t even learned the new set of names for the buildings and resources, and keep referring...
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”...
