My Top Games from UKGE 2018
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...
Flavour Text
Many games include flavour text in them. Whether it’s a short sentence on the bottom of a card or entire page of backstory on a character you’ve picked, flavour text is an often-ignored component....
10 Things to Do at Conventions
Boardgame Opinions (Steve, Mark and I) are all off to AireCon next week. It’s a boardgame convention that takes place in Harrogate, UK every year. We’ve been going to the UK Games Expo (the...
Top 10 Anticipated Games of 2018 – Part 2
Last week we looked at numbers 10 through 6 of my Top 10 Anticipated Games of 2018. Today, we finish the list and look at the Top 5. You might wonder where people hear...
The Year Ahead 2018
2017 has been a year of investing in projects behind the scenes. From the Boardgame Opinions channel to the development of new games, we have been working hard to improve the quality of what...
How to Run a YouTube Channel – Part 1
I’ve been running YouTube channels fairly successfully for about four years now. We’re not talking millions of subscribers or anything, but I’ve been very pleased with the overall number of views/subscribers that the channels...
Why I Run a YouTube Channel
I started my first YouTube channel about four years ago. It was to help students learn Maths (I am a Maths teacher by trade). A little less than a year ago, I started a...
The UK Games Expo 2017
The UK Games Expo (UKGE) is the largest tabletop games convention in the UK (and the fourth largest in the world!). I don’t go to many conventions, but I make it a point to...