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 | So how “new” does a game need to be? Does it need to bring something to the table that has never been seen before? Or is it simply enough to work well and engage the players? On one hand, there’s a... |
May 29th, 2012
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 | Sorry there's no new material this week: I've been caught out being really busy at work and at home and there's been no time. Plus I'm told today is a holiday in the US so you lot should all have better ... |
May 28th, 2012
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 | The only board game featuring "Juke Box Hero". |
May 24th, 2012
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 | By now, I think we can all agree that the zombie game phenomenon is getting a little old. Every third game seems to be about either killing the undead, running from the undead, or becoming the undead so ... |
May 24th, 2012
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 | Way back when I was on holiday in the Netherlands as a young teenager with a friends family I bought this game because it has a cyber T-Rex on the front. That was all I needed to know back in those day... |
May 23th, 2012
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Come on in for this week's Next of Ken, where we're delving straight into the gaming talk with quick impressions of Ascension, a looooong overdue look at Wrath of Ashardalon, and a review of the ho... |
May 21th, 2012
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 | They’re coming at you thick and fast, a veritable storm of fire. It’s Bolt Thrower time yet again, although there shouldn’t be too many back-to-back versions. I plan to use the opportunity to catch... |
May 21th, 2012
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 | Cracked LCD is MOVING?!
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May 17th, 2012
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 | Frustration. It is the theme that runs throughout this account of the murder spree of a killer who called himself "The Zodiac" in the area of San Francisco in the late 60s and early 70s. Frustration, whe... |
May 17th, 2012
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 | Remember right after the Lord of the Rings movies came out, and every fourth board game that came out was all about the movies? And you would use worker placement or roll-and-move or cooperative puzzle g... |
May 16th, 2012
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 | I made a strange realization a week or so ago. For all of my Ameritrash leanings and pretensions, I usually like games by Martin Wallace. Wallace usually designs dense economic games with drab names that... |
May 15th, 2012
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 | You know the drill by now. Some feeble pun or other on the multiple meaning of the phrase “Bolt Thrower”. I really can’t be bothered today, so let’s get down to it.GamesThere are several games th... |
May 14th, 2012
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 | A thrilling tale of discovery! An action packed adventure to the darkest heart of Africa! Two men in a search for fame, fortune and the source of the Nile! That's what I was expecting when I began to wat... |
May 11th, 2012
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 | An 8-bit boardgame.
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May 10th, 2012
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 | A reader asked if I would review Radekai, and mentioned that it was available on close-out at Target. Since I love to give people what they want (as long as it involves me talking about games), I went ou... |
May 9th, 2012
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Come on in for Next of Ken, where in this week's column we'll bid farewell to a music great, gush unabashedly about The Avengers, and review two Alderac offerings in Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Rui... |
May 7th, 2012
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1 - Thanks for agreeing to do this interview! Could you tell us a bit more about yourself, and how you came to get into games and game design?
First of all I have to thank you for the opportu... |
May 7th, 2012
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 | Perhaps not so over the top as The Road Warrior but in a similar vein, The Book of Eli takes us on a trip across a bleak and barren wasteland. Denzel Washington, perhaps the best action star working in H... |
May 5th, 2012
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 | Role selection & move.
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May 3th, 2012
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 | The other day, my wife called me and told me I just got a package from Athens. I thought she meant the Athens that's in Texas, because I live in Texas and couldn't really figure out why I would be gettin... |
May 2th, 2012
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