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 | It must be tough to make a good expansion. The proof is that there are a lot of mediocre ones, especially today when we have fewer “games” and more “core sets.” An expansion is essentially an att... |
December 18th, 2012
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 | Zombie board games tend to focus, like the films they emulate, on the players surviving by putting up barricades and beating the undead to death with whatever they can find. But if you’ve seen enough h... |
December 17th, 2012
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 | More like "Hooey". |
December 13th, 2012
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 | There’s a period in every gamer’s life where we harbor dreams that our friends and family will convert to hobby games. We show them some game (Ticket to Ride! Settlers of Catan!) that we hope will ca... |
December 11th, 2012
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 | The thing that reminds me most of Christmas is not a tree, nor hot chestnuts and mulled wine. It’s an open fire. When I was a teenager the holiday season would see family members emerge, blinking in th... |
December 10th, 2012
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 | Better than War of the Ring? Yep. |
December 6th, 2012
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Slide through the shadows and stealthily creep into this week's Next of Ken, where I talk about Wreck-It Ralph, American Horror Story: Asylum, Ruse, and two games from Level 99 Games' upcoming Minigame... |
December 5th, 2012
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 | The exultation of motion, the seduction of speed, the thrill of reckless danger, but most of all the duality of existence. The feeling that while I am at once both more and less a part of the world aroun... |
December 5th, 2012
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 | It's amazing how fascinated I am by trying to figure out my favorite games. There's something about ranking and ordering that injects a small dose of reason into what is really kind of a silly hobby. I t... |
December 4th, 2012
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 | In this glorious age of reprints, there are very few remaining classic titles from the eighties that haven’t seen a rebirth in some form or other. Of those left stranded in the past most of any consequ... |
December 3th, 2012
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 | Game comes with a hammer. On the Table Kind of in a gaming drought lately- but I have played Dan Baden’s Article 27 a couple of times, and I love it. It’s a great negotiation game that feels inspired... |
November 29th, 2012
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Sometimes people just hate.
Three quarters of the way through I was being booed by the spectators on both sides of the obstacle course. This wasn’t “disappointed” booing... |
November 28th, 2012
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 | When I moved out of my parent’s house, I moved in with a guy I knew in college. Being mostly penniless I had to use a lot of tools and items that he already owned, including the can opener. The problem... |
November 27th, 2012
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 | It'd been a tough day - during work I'd had to spend the afternoon chairing a meeting instead of using the whole day to prepare for my first ever shot at playing War of the Ring like I'd planned. It wa... |
November 26th, 2012
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 | You mix a flawed or emotionally wounded protagonist, a femme fetale, some whiskey taken straight and a mystery and you've got yourself a Film Noir, right? The Two Jakes has all the components even going ... |
November 25th, 2012
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One does not simply walk into Next of Ken--you run your Hobbit ass in, as this week I'm all about gushing over Lords of Middle-Earth, the new expansion for the 2nd edition of War of the Ring. I've ju... |
November 21th, 2012
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 | Have you been following the ongoing drama of Glory to Rome? The original game by Carl Chudyk has been a gamer favorite for several years, but it’s impossible to have any conversation about the game tha... |
November 20th, 2012
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 | Once upon a time, I played inordinate amounts of Magic: the Gathering. I played it so much that information about anything other than Magic: the Gathering could do little more than skitter across the sur... |
November 19th, 2012
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 | Avery was right. |
November 15th, 2012
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This began as a reply in "What Board Games Are You Buying" to my previous post about whether Mice and Mystics was worth getting as a game for adults. I got mixed answers so I and ju... |
November 14th, 2012
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