Some of my earliest memories in gaming take me back to fighting Mother Brain in Metroid and Super Metroid. I remember all of the bosses from Super Metroid specifically, including Kraid, Phantoon, and the rest. Even lately I can think of games like Thunderstone, where the players (characters in...
“”While you here do snoring lie,
Open-eyed conspiracy
His time doth take”
-William Shakespeare, The Tempset
Why is the bishop talking to that senator? Is that Princess Annette? Why is she conferring with a mere merchant? Why is that artist staring at me? Does he know of our...
It’s the end of the world as we know it, but not really as we know it. With all of the games focusing on the apocalypse involving zombies or some other horrid creature invasion, Doom and Bloom’s SURVIVAL has come forth in a setting that’s a little more believable. In SURVIVAL! you are a...
Looking for somewhere to play your wargames? Having issues creating scenery for your Warhammer 40K games? If so, check out the Wasteland battle mat from Deep-Cut Studio. Deep-Cut is one of the leading producers of battle mats in the gaming industry. We were lucky enough to receive one of their...
Doom has returned to the world. An ancient evil once thought locked away, Doom has begun to change. In the world of Numenera, Doom has taken the form of an intelligent virus that controls its hosts. All of the infected become known as the “Doomladen” and can sense each other’s presence no...
In Flash Point: Fire Rescue, designed by Kevin Lanzing and published by Indie Boards & Cards, you get to play as a team of firefighters, working together against the clock to save victims of a raging house fire. The game can be played with one to six players, and depending on how many people...
In a world, increasingly unlike our own, where trains are still a growing mode of transportation, you get a chance to put your mark on the face of Japan in the form of train tracks! Will you make a standard grid or go fancy and perhaps go for an argyle-style criss-cross pattern? Will you take the...
“A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.“
-Charles H. Spurgeon, 19th-century English preacher
Who can build the most successful village? How will you manage your workers and resources to produce victory? In Keyflower by Richard Breese and Sebastian Bleasdale from...
Countermay is known as The Tapestry of Worlds. It is home to vast meadows, green pastures, and more beautiful sites than you can imagine. Sadly, after a thousand years of war, Countermay is dying. Food is running out, and the threat of starvation hangs above the many civilizations living in...
In a world of fantasy and magic, mages who have been trained in the art of tricks and spells need to find a way to entertain themselves just like any other. When you’ve graduated from mage school and become a grand wizard, what are you to do? How about you go down to the arena and try and...
