Interviews

When you look at fighting games, it seems like a lot of the tabletop ones are one-on-one brawls.  While some dungeon crawlers have melee combat, it doesn’t have the feel of a beat em up like Final Fight.  When I heard about Street Masters, I was intrigued by the

Halloween seems like a time where scares and tense moments are popular.  While video games have had horror elements to them for a while, board games are starting to bring those elements to the tabletop.  Anomaly is a game that uses hidden movement to challenge the survival of students trapped

There are times when a game doesn’t get discovered right away, and it becomes difficult to get except by paying an arm and a leg on the secondary market.  Sometimes the game has a license or publishing rights that make it impossible for the game to ever get reprinted.

When you look at ancient civilizations, it’s not uncommon for Greek, Norse, and Chinese mythologies to be used as backdrops for gaming.  The Mayans aren’t used very often, and their mythology less so.  However, when looking at the Kickstarter campaign for Mezo, it was easy to see the

The Banner Saga recently reached the end of the road earlier this year with the release of The Banner Saga 3. You can get caught up on our thoughts on those games right over here, but the finishing touches on that story involved getting those games on retail shelves. Stoic

Creating a game and putting up on Kickstarter can be a nerve-wracking affair.  You need to have the game playtested, art for the game, and an audience to bring in some hype.  Usually a group of people work together on different parts of the game to complete it.  Few are

I sat down with Mel MacCoubrey, Narrative Director (not Narrator!) for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey for an extensive chat.  We talked at length about player choice, family, the roots of Assassin’s Creed, and how Odyssey is looking to change them for the better with a brand new approach to

Kerberos has been most well known for their Sword of the Stars series.  That series started in 2006 and spawned several expansions and a sequel.  However, the team has recently branched out to board games.  We covered The Pit previously, but now Kerberos has a card game on Kickstarter.  I