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MattDP
Written by: MattDP
# A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to play Ghost Stories for the first time. It was okay. I certainly enjoyed the few games I played although I'd say it has some question marks over its long term...
February 2th, 2009
Written by: MattDP
#A short while ago, over on Boardgamegeek, I made a bold and public statement to the effect that current trends in Euro game design were bad for the hobby as a whole. Another user, Pedro Silva (Mallgur)...
January 26th, 2009
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# I'd never really felt I could share in the general outpouring of enthusiasm over the various commands & colours games. Battle Cry had some well-known problems and showed it's age. Memoir, though ma...
January 19th, 2009
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#Before Christmas I got seriously creeped out by a startlingly widespread outbreak of "I hate Monopoly" over at T.O.S. I'm not sure exactly what disturbed me more about it - the level of time an...
January 12th, 2009
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#With nary a backward glance, Sir Roland stepped out of the weak dawn light and in to the cold gloom of the southwestern castle tower. Lighting his lantern, he checked that his healing ring was in place...
January 5th, 2009
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Right, I'm still on holiday. So, I suspect, are many of you. So this is short and to the point. This weeks' BGN column, which I wrote in advance, is about my New Years resolutions for gaming. If you're i...
December 29th, 2008
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#So it's the Monday before Christmas and I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that in all likelihood this column is going to attract a whole lot less readers than is usual. In light of this I th...
December 22th, 2008
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#Last week I finally got my hands on my copy of Titan.  I had it delivered to my workplace and so I had to spend all bloody morning sat with the box next to my desk, itching to open it and have a goo...
December 15th, 2008
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#I read about Dominion. I thought it sounded interesting. I played it. This is what I thought. Makes you realise how succinct and to the point "Vini, Vidi, Vici" is when it comes to tripartite q...
December 8th, 2008
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#This week on BGN, we're going all touchy-feely and getting in touch with our feminine sides by exploring our emotional reactions to games. But we're doing so particularly through the medium of wargames, ...
December 1th, 2008
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# Matt? Didn't he actually used to write opinion pieces around here? Well yes. But there's only so many times one can make the same argument, so until I either have another interesting idea (which i...
November 24th, 2008
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#We're scraping the barrel this week in terms of headline images illustrating fake arguments, which is ironic really because the sort of argument I'm talking about over at BGN is the sort the scrapes the ...
November 17th, 2008
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# I have a real thing about the word "innovation". In one place I worked it was a massive management buzzword that got bandied about so much that it lost all meaning and caused one of my fe...
November 10th, 2008
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# Well, Michael Barnes said that the way to fool everyone into thinking that I was writing proper introductions to externally-linked articles was to put a big image in front of it. As you can see, I tried...
November 3th, 2008
Written by: MattDP
# I bought Return of the Heroes during a period when I was scratching around looking for an "ideal" adventure or dungeon game to add to my collection. My criteria were that I wanted something...
October 27th, 2008
Written by: MattDP
I know it's early, but since was the nearest BGN column slot I had to Halloween I figured I'd spend the time over there talking about how to make a scary game. Besides, I noticed to my complete disgust t...
October 20th, 2008
Written by: MattDP
# Whatever your personal views on what your favourite Eurogames are there seems to be a small and select group of Euros that almost all AT fans seem to give the thumbs-up and turn to whenever they want...
October 13th, 2008
Written by: MattDP
One of my all-time pet peeves in gaming, ever since playing my very first Eurogame, has to be the recieved wisdom that short rules make a game easy to lean. Although most often proferred by Eurogamers th...
October 6th, 2008
Written by: MattDP
Joe Dever will probably be best known to you all as the author of the immensley popular Lone Wolf series of gamebooks but he has a long and distinguished history of involvement in the UK gaming scene wit...
September 29th, 2008
Written by: MattDP
Y'know I always despair when I see gamers asking about what games they ought to throw in the boot of the car on their way out to a dinner party with people who don't game. The answer is invariably "...
September 22th, 2008
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