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Interviews   -   Jun 27, 2018 Taking flight with Star Realms — Origins 2018 Preview
Taking flight with Star Realms — Origins 2018 Preview

Star Realms was the first game from White Wizard Games, but it took off like gangbusters.  Since then White Wizard has expanded to include Epic and Hero Realms in their catalog.  Last year White Wizard went back to their roots and funded a Kickstarter for a four-player version of Star

by Keith Schleicher
Interviews   -   Jun 27, 2018 GreenBriar Games gives us the old west and fighting bears — Origins 2018 Preview
GreenBriar Games gives us the old west and fighting bears — Origins 2018 Preview

GreenBriar Games has a large number of figure-heavy games like Folklore: The Afflication, the Zpocalypse series, and Vengeance.  However, they decided to highlight Grimslingers and it’s expansion, as well as BarBEARian Battlegrounds.  Grimslingers is a card game set in the wild west.  The base game and it’s expansion

by Keith Schleicher
Interviews   -   Jun 05, 2018 Crazy Eights: Lance Hill of Funhill Games on Wisdom of Solomon
Crazy Eights: Lance Hill of Funhill Games on Wisdom of Solomon

Often when games are reprinted, they keep the same figures, artwork, and pieces as the previous addition.  Sometimes the rulebook may get errors corrected or give clearer examples, but usually it stays the same.  Occasionally a new edition will come out so differently that it gets a name change.  That’

by Keith Schleicher
Interviews   -   Jun 05, 2018 Crazy Eights: Ryan Lesser of Wild Power Games on Streets of Steel
Crazy Eights: Ryan Lesser of Wild Power Games on Streets of Steel

While there have been plenty of board games that have some form of fighting in them, it’s generally in a dungeon crawler or a one on one fighter.  Wild Power Games has created a side-scrolling fighter that mimics games like Final Fight, Golden Axe, and Double Dragon.  To find

by Keith Schleicher
Interviews   -   May 25, 2018 Crazy Eights: Martin Cirulis answers questions about The Pit: The Board Game
Crazy Eights: Martin Cirulis answers questions about The Pit: The Board Game

It’s not unusual for board game companies to get different licenses to enhance the theme of the game.  Computer games like Fallout, Doom, and Sid Meier’s Civilization have been brought to the tabletop by Fantasy Flight.  However, you don’t see many computer game companies creating their own

by Keith Schleicher
Interviews   -   May 18, 2018 Crazy Eights: Mel Primus answers questions on Penny Lane
Crazy Eights: Mel Primus answers questions on Penny Lane

Worker placement games can be tricky.  Many have a problem with the player going first having a huge advantage. Other one can feel like it plays too similarly play after play.  Gamers may also be asking themselves how many worker placement games about farming are really needed.  Penny Lane has

by Keith Schleicher
Interviews   -   May 06, 2018 GROWL and the next phase of social deduction games–Joey Vigour Interview
GROWL and the next phase of social deduction games–Joey Vigour Interview

There is something so compelling about the paranoia and unpredictability of a social deduction game. GROWL, in its final days on Kickstarter at time of writing, explores these themes by giving players the ability to secretly influence one another’s identities as the game progresses. Werewolves try to proliferate as

by John Farrell
Interviews   -   Apr 21, 2018 Blood, music, and cardboard–we interview American Murder Song on the Donner Party Boardgame
Blood, music, and cardboard–we interview American Murder Song on the Donner Party Boardgame

Horror has historically been a sorely neglected genre. Luckily, a few people have made it their work to keep the genre not only alive but thriving and growing. Saar Hendelman and Terrance Zdunich have been working together for many years now to create unique and stirring works. Terrance was one

by John Farrell
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