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 | And so we come, without due ceremony, to the last of my yearly writing traditions: the top-rated games of people who hold the “Ameritrash fan” badge on boardgamegeek. The rules, as ever, are that a g... |
January 28th, 2013
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 | Better than Caylus. |
January 24th, 2013
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Still playing catch-up with 2012 reviews, thoughts, and impressions. This week I'm talking Mage Wars, Rumble in the House, Serenissima, and the colossal production screw-up of Exile Sun. "I hav... |
January 23th, 2013
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 | Does the world really need another Civ game? If you had asked me a year ago, I probably would have said no. Not only is it a crowded genre, it’s crowded with classics. There’s the old Francis Tresham... |
January 22th, 2013
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 | You may remember that I wasn’t hugely impressed with the initial releases in the new mix-and-match miniatures skirmish line Dungeon Command from Wizards of the Coast. The absorbing tactics of the maneu... |
January 21th, 2013
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 | Next of Barnes- Come, join us won't you? |
January 17th, 2013
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Hope the New Year is treating you well, gentle readers. This week, I'll talk a small bit out the plans for this years Reader's Choice awards, and delay my own retrospective of 2012 as I dig into the ... |
January 16th, 2013
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 | The first hobby game that I learned to play was The Settlers of Catan, which I got into just prior to my senior year of college. Needless to say, it was a big hit with me and my friends, but we had a ver... |
January 15th, 2013
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 | I seem to have fallen into an end-year pattern when it comes to writing: I close the year with a best-of list and open the new one with a rundown of what I’ve been playing and what I hope to play in th... |
January 14th, 2013
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 | You will believe a Rancor can punch an X-Wing |
January 10th, 2013
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 | "It's a thin line between love and hate." So sang The Persuaders and they were never so right. Sometimes there is an attraction so powerful between two people that it can burn. Like a fire it becomes a d... |
January 10th, 2013
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 | It’s not uncommon for a game to be rejiggered into a slightly different form, which sounds like a bad thing. But it can often lead to a game that is much-improved, or at least excellent in its own wa... |
January 8th, 2013
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 | We all know the titles of Jules Verne's famous works; Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, Dick Sand a Captain at Fifteen. Okay, you probably haven't heard of that last one bu... |
January 6th, 2013
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 | Don't fuss, I know what's best for you. |
January 3th, 2013
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Going to keep this week's column short and sweet, because I'm assuming most of you are still hung over from New Year's parties. I do want feedback from everyone that reads this site and is intere... |
January 2th, 2013
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 | As you read this, I will have just arrived back from nearly two weeks in Michigan and Ohio visiting my extended family. This trek to see relatives is one that happens annually, and it’s one of my favor... |
January 1th, 2013
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 | Whenever an old game from 30-40 years ago gets reprinted, there will always be a chorus of people who just don’t get it. Maybe their tastes just don’t jive with those of the 1980s, or maybe they just... |
December 25th, 2012
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 | It’s the time of year for lists. Lists of things from the year that’s about to end. Most especially of things that you’ve found to be of surpassing excellence. I am no dissenter, no maverick, not s... |
December 24th, 2012
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 | Yes, this is a Very Special episode. During some of the backroom emailing that went on during Michael Barnes Proudly Presents Secret Satan 2013, I received this email from Frank Branham, whom you may kno... |
December 20th, 2012
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 | For one, like myself, who is overly familiar with the story of The Hobbit, it is difficult to break the bond with the story as written and take the movie interpretation on it's own merits. However, thi... |
December 20th, 2012
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