Christmas is fast approaching again. Time for some serious gaming! I have been playing games with my extended family pretty much my entire life at Christmas and it’s always a highlight of the year...
One of the biggest Kickstarter projects of last year was The 7th Continent. It garnered a massive $7 million in pledges from over 40,000 backers. It was a sprawling, survival, adventure game where cards...
…you wait around for months and then seven come along at once! Having had nothing but eerie silence for several months, I have received seven different Kickstarters over the past few weeks. The interesting...
We started a new series on the Boardgame Opinions channel last week called House Rules. The idea behind it is that contestants are trying to figure out the rules to a game just by...
With around 1400 games being released at Essen this year, I haven’t quite managed to play all of them yet! So I’m compiling my list from a rather narrow sample, but I’ve certainly played...
A couple of weeks ago, I took a flight to Essen, a city in Germany, with my son for a long weekend away. Our sole purpose for going was to visit the Essen Spiel...
As a child, I was always a sucker for Choose Your Own Adventure books. The idea that you didn’t have to follow the hero around, but could actively decide which path to take, was...
If you want to be really unsporting and generally piss people off as much as possible – and I mean without becoming a professional footballer – you should consider colluding in Castles of Mad...
This might seem like an odd topic for a boardgames blog, but today I’d like to talk about making payments to people who live overseas. If you ever decide to begin publishing boardgames though,...
Three’s Company Sometimes, I really think that boardgame designers have a better understanding of human nature than anyone else. Take Catan, for example. You are a group of bedraggled settlers, just arrived on an...
