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Today Firestone's going to review the Kennerspiel des Jahres winner from 2014: Istanbul, designed by Rudiger Dorn and published by AEG. You're a merchant, leading your assistants through the bazaar and trying to use the the booths' abilities to gain enough money to buy the rubies necessary to win. Let's take a look!
Read MoreYes, I'm calling it a Solo Review instead of a Single-Take Review, and yes, it may have everything to do with seeing Han and Chewie on screen for the first time in over 30 years...
Today I'm taking a look at Run, Fight or Die, a Richard Launius game from 8th Summit and Grey Fox Games.
Run, Fight or Die, is a zombie dice-roller for 1-4 players that gives players three options as you face the oncoming hordes of unpainted hordes of zombie guys and gals. Will you a) run, b) fight, or c) ....wait for it...die? The answer is up to you, and of course, the dice. Should this game run, fight, or die? And what does that even mean? Let's find out!
Read MoreOne can only imagine the number of emails, tweets, threatening letters, and carrier-pigeon messages that Alderac has received suggesting new factions for the next Smash Up! expansion. We even joined in when we interview designer Paul Peterson (RIGHT HERE!) and suggested a blogger faction... Well, after years of this unsolicited bombardment of intellectual property, AEG is openly asking for your ideas, and giving you a neat easy way to share them!
Read MoreThis weekend at the 2015 Star Wars Celebration in California, Fantasy Flight Games held a panel where they announced the next wave in the successful X-Wing Miniatures line. Let's see what's coming!
Read MoreToday we're taking a look at Knot Dice, the new project from Matthew O'Malley. You can check out the Kickstarter campaign right here.
Knot Dice is a set of Celtic-patterned custom dice that includes rules for several different games you can play with the dice. These games range from 1-3 players. But you can add more players with another set of dice. The dice are a great pearly green with each side featuring a different piece of a pattern that interconnects with other pieces of the pattern.
Here's how the games work!
Read MoreToday we're going to review the Kennerspiel des Jahres-winning board game Village, a sort-of worker-placement game from designers Inka and Markus Brand, and published in the US by Tasty Minstrel Games. Let's take a look.
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Our favorite game is The Resistance. My (Firestone) Game of the Year last year was One Night Ultimate Werewolf. So imagine how deliriously happy we were to hear that Indie Boards and Cards and Bezier Games have teamed up to bring us a mashup of two of our favorite games in One Night Resistance.
If you're a part of the gaming community and haven't been completely sequestered under a rock/in a cave/in your mom's basement you surely know that today is our unofficial holiday known as International Tabletop Day! Gaming stores, Web sites, and YouTube channels are holding special events, sales and just having a generally geeky good time. What are you up to on this joyous day?!
Read MoreLet's jump in this week for some great Kickstarter campaigns. The featured campaign is something we're super excited about! Here we go!
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