Playing 2 – 5 player games regularly with the same group is a great way of building friendships. However, it can be rather insular. Even meeting up at my local boardgame cafe (The Dice...
I was discussing the age-old hot potato of theme vs mechanics the other day with the Boardgame Opinions team. The question had been phrased as, “Which is more important: theme or mechanics?” Not surprisingly,...
I don’t tend to follow games once a Kickstarter project has finished, particularly because I back so many; it can be hard to keep track. Every now and then an update comes through for...
I thought 2018 was a fantastic year for games. Essen produced some superb offerings. There were also lots of very exciting Kickstarter projects. Most of these will be delivered in 2019 so I’ve got...
I was recording one of our “Top 30 Games of All Time” videos on the Boardgame Opinions channel the other day and we got into an interesting discussion about app implementations of boardgames and...
I came across a very interesting article on BoardGameGeek (BGG) the other day: the All-Time Designer Ranking (2018). Tony Chen (who himself is a designer) has come up with a formula that looks at...
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...
