Rants & Raves

  Look around the cinemas lately? It's been a great year for movies, but what were the ones people were most actively looking forward to?  Indy 4, Hellboy 2, Batman 2, Hulk 2...last year, of course, it was Pirates 3, Spidey 3, Shrek 3....  

IMPORTANT UPDATE FROM MB- Sorry to edit your post Matt...just got "official" word from FFG that they're changing the format of the MC CMG to a fixed purchase thing like AT-43 or Confrontation.  Hats off to FFG for listening to early feedback and responding!  I think it's a good decision that will likely make the game a lot more appealing to folks..and it'll make upgrading SotC minis a hell of a lot easier! OK, carry on... When I write submissions for this site, I don't generally do reviews, because I can do all the reviews I want...

Lately, there’s been a lot of discussion at F:AT about game reviewing. Barnes has been all over the web, talking about how game reviewers don’t have opinions, and numerous game reviewers have been dragged around and then thrown under buses (especially the douche bag who sold his unopened copy of Black Ops on eBay – yeah, you gave that a comprehensive review). And since the topic has been on everyone’s minds, I thought it would be fun to poke at the open sore until we got just a little more pus out of it. I write a game...

  One of the many positives of this mini explosion (somewhere between a bathtub fart and an firecracker) of "hobby gaming" is that it's created a market for relatively obscure games that were out of print. If the BGG-Effect hadn't fetishized Die Macher or Hannibal or Blackbeard (with a tip of the tri-corn hat to Johnny Depp, of course), none of those games would be available now.  Before the Boardgamegeek "community" burned me with Caylus (overwhelming hype, complicated bullshit...