Reviews
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 | At my house, we love almost all games, but our constantly evolving list of favorites tends to migrate toward cooperative games. In fact, I just recently I ordered just over a hundred duckets worth of the... |
May 18th, 2010
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 | As Matt Drake's article from a couple of weeks ago already told y'all, CYCLADES is pretty good. More than that, I'd go so far as to call it the best game I've played this year to date. It's an easy to pl... |
May 13th, 2010
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 | I used to play a whole lot of roleplaying games. I played everything from small-press rags to big-dollar productions, and I played Dungeons & Dragons more than anything else. It wasn't my favorite, r... |
May 12th, 2010
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 | I've been wanting to publish a review of Power Grid on here for ages, largely because the prevailing attitude of gamers around here is one of undisguised adoration for the title which I find utterly perp... |
May 10th, 2010
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 | Secrets of the Tombs was clearly designed by Martin Wallace to be sold in the British Museum's gift shop. As such, it contains lovely components, including cards with photos of actual Egyptian artifacts ... |
May 7th, 2010
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 | You know, it has been too long since I beat the hell out of a crappy game. Plus I had a very bad day. I think it's time I reviewed Swat. The game actually has an exclamation mark after the title, but tha... |
May 5th, 2010
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 | Last night I had more fun than I've had in a great many moons, well, that is excluding some booty action with Mamasan. We received our copy of Politico: Fall of Caesar from Small Box Games, a small but i... |
May 4th, 2010
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 | URBAN COWBOY is one of the great bad movies> I think that the picture really captures what it must be like to be a cartoonish Texan with little concern for the world beyond keeping the trailer clean, h... |
April 29th, 2010
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 | Ancient Greeks had it really rough. For one thing, no pants. I know the Mediterranean is supposed to be mild, but sooner or later, it's got to get cold enough to make you wish you had some insulation on ... |
April 28th, 2010
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 | AEG's release of Myth: Pantheons is very telling, to me at least, that they are a versatile company that can make not only great "board" games, but they can make some killer card games too. With their la... |
April 27th, 2010
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I'm thinking about changing the name of my column at Gameshark.com to "Barnes Bitches About Price". Because that's what I'm doing again in my otherwise favorable review of Conquest Gaming's WARLORDS ... |
April 22th, 2010
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 | Anyone who pays much attention to my articles will be well aware that Twilight Struggle is about my favourite game to play in the whole world. Indeed I believe I happened to mention this last week. So ... |
April 22th, 2010
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I always wanted to own a hotel in Vegas. It would be totally awesome. The back rooms would be for rent, but you would have to be in some sort of organized crime to use them. The top two floors would ... |
April 21th, 2010
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 | By now, everybody knows that video games are vastly superior to board games apart from a couple of malfeasant outliers who still like to count just for fun. PANZER GENERAL: ALLIED ASSAULT desmontrates th... |
April 15th, 2010
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 | Many of you may have played Werewolf, that old high-school party game where nobody knows who is the bad guy and who is the good guy and you have to try to kill the other team before you get discovered an... |
April 14th, 2010
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 | Picture the scene:The little scout vessel is bravely battling the star cruiser around a deserted mining asteroid. The pilot (who resembles a tumbleweed) is trying to keep the ship steady as he throws it ... |
April 7th, 2010
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 | I have heard this game compared to Indiana Jones movies more than once, and to be honest, I never much thought Indy was all that much of a Billy Badass. I mean, Allan Quartermain is a world renowned hun... |
April 6th, 2010
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 | A little while ago, board gaming’s answer to Hunter S. Thompson, Michael Barnes, gave us a list of his ten “essential” games to own. This isn’t going to be a list piece or some commentary on his ... |
April 5th, 2010
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 | I don't make any bones about the fact that I like small press games. I'm not going to lie and say I like a game just because it's from a micropublisher, but I'm willing to cut them a little slack if the ... |
March 31th, 2010
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I started playing a new wargame series late this winter. Well, actually, not a new series but a very old series. Great Campaigns of the American Civil War (GCACW) was first published by Avalon Hill... |
March 29th, 2010
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