Game Report: Settling Catan

Settlers of Catan is an odd duck in that it’s a more hardcore board game from Germany that has somehow made some inroads with those who aren’t into the world of niche boardgames. Lots of people love Settlers, yet somehow I hadn’t played it until recently.

The friends I was hanging out with [...]

ZOMBIES!!! A Game Review

By Peter Kuebeck

I’m an avid tabletop gamer, which means that Dungeons & Dragons and various board games tend to feed my gaming cravings over, say, hours of letting my hands go numb while playing my PS3. Rolling the dice, for me, is the way to go – I love the element of chance.

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G.I. Joe Adventure Board Game!

The story of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Adventure Board Game! is a story of mystery. I have no idea where this game came from. Its been in my family for as long as I can remember, but it wasn’t mine originally. I think it was at my Grandfather’s house for the [...]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Board Game

Live the Adventure… on a coffee table or similar flat surface!

The other day I was having a rather fruitless rummage sale outing when I stumbled upon a copy of the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom board game by LJN. I opened it up and saw that there were a bunch of [...]

Star Wars Assault On Hoth: The Fate of the Tabletop is At Stake!

While I like playing video games as much as the next guy, there’s nothing like the feeling of playing a great pen and paper RPG or board game. I recently had the opportunity to bust out an old favorite from West End Games called Assault on Hoth. And by opportunity, I forced my lady [...]

HeroQuest Lives! Busting Out an Old Friend

One of my favorite “board games” of all time is HeroQuest. I put those stupid quotes in the previous sentence to emphasis the fact that the game isn’t as much of a board game as it is a halfway point to the wondrous world of tabletop RPGs and board games. I never really had [...]

Step Back into the Mists of Crap with D&D DragonStrike!

I went through a period back in my early twenties where I fell back in love with a game called HeroQuest. If you don’t know the glory that is HeroQuest, it’s a board game that came out in the early 1990s and its similar to Dungeons and Dragons, but with much more [...]