I know deckbuilding games are a fad. I know people are getting tired of them. I know how many people love to say, , great, another deckbuilder, yawn.' They actually say that. Or type it, anyway. They type 'yawn' as its own sentence. So condescending. I hope those people break their pelvises in skiing accidents.

I don’t often talk about how much I like Power Grid. On F:AT, it’s usually regarded as one of “those” games, the kinds liked by boring accountant-types and fun-murderers. Besides being unfair both to Power Grid and to accountant types who aren’t so boring, it’s simply untrue. Indeed, another reason that I don’t usually let on much about my love of Power Grid is that EVERYONE I KNOW LOVES IT. I forget the last time I went to a large organized game night with at least one table of this Friedemann Friese favorite, no fooling. Perhaps in a feeble...

If an evil genius were to invent a machine to suck money directly from the bank accounts of gamers, it’d look a lot like the X-Wing miniatures game. If he were to go back and tinker with it, seeking to make to terrifyingly irresistible, and add the power to suck in non-gaming Star Wars fans too, it’d look a lot like the wave 2 miniature releases. There are four new ships to add to your collections. The Empire gets Boba Fett’s Slave-1 and the four-cannon TIE interceptor while the Rebels resist them with the A-Wing fighter...

Genndy Tartakovsky is a genius. Who? The man behind the classic shows such as Dexter's Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls. If these shows are classics, what a triumph then is Samurai Jack! Every maker of an 3 hour bloated, turgid, rambling, mess of a movie (Peter Jackson...get over here!) should be forced to watch the first two episodes of this fantastic series. He fits as much story into 48minutes a modern film maker fits into a trilogy of films. Every frame drives the story. Every scene has purpose. Every bit of dialog is well thought out. Hell for something...

Spaceships!