Crowdfunding is a blessing to the gaming community. We the gamers are now in complete control of what we will play. Take a browse through the Games section on Kickstarter.  People out there are waiting for backers for games that they spent countless hours dreaming over. Their entire future rests in fingers typing up credit card numbers and PayPal accounts.   It is absolutely stunning to look at the numbers. 85 cents of every dollar funded has gone to a successful game. However, one game out of every three that gets posted meets their quota. That means that...

Pax, I'm told is latin for peace. I'm not sure why its so popular for titling games about war though. I don't know anything about the Con Pax east, thats not what I'm yattering about there. No its games with the word Pax in them Pax Porfiriana, and Pax Baltica, two reviews below;  

Alright, Circus fans, this is going to be a good one, so strap on your seat belt and let me take you downtown where the hookers and cheap heroin is. You see, there are very few games that I think are a solid 10 rating based on factors such as production quality, value, and the most important aspect of any game, the level of fun it provides. Well, Mission Command: Sea isn't a perfect 10, but it's pretty damned close. The one thing that it lacks, the one thing holding it back from a destiny of greatness, is just...

I was a very late adopter to some of what is now called "German Classics", such as Settlers, because I was pretty much brainwashed into believing that many European-style games were dry, boring, and too simple. Stone Age was one of those games that I simply took a pass on because of its German roots. Well, about a year and a half ago I was talking with my friend Tom Boylan, the King of Costa Rica, and he proclaimed loudly and forcefully that Stone Age is a tremendously fun game. I scoffed, thinking Tom...

Many years ago, in a small nowhere town in a tiny nowhere state on the Eastern side of America, a small baby was forcibly ejected from his mothers womb and entered the world. An event that happens millions of times a day the world over and fairly unremarkable. However, every year since then, the people in my life have insisted that the event be commemorated in one fashion or another. So it was that last Sunday, my mad scientist wife and I invited the True Believers and sundry others over for a day of board gaming and...