Tabletop Games

Kolossal Games might not be the largest publisher, but they’ve had some huge hits on Kickstarter.  At Origins I got a chance to look at the wild west themed Western Legends.  If you want to get the feel of Red Dead Redemption in a board game, then be sure

Bezier Games is known for their spin on the classic Werewolf with One Night Ultimate Werewolf.  Some gamers didn’t find a single night satisfying, so Bezier decided to expand the gameplay and add some cool looking bits. I got a look at One Week Ultimate Werewolf, and it looks

It seems like there are several games with a historic Asian theme.  Games like the recent Rising Sun to the old Gamemaster Series Shogun/Samurai Swords/Ikusa, samurai and ninjas seem to be bred into the boardgaming culture.  At Origins I got to sit with Adrienne Ezell who designed Shogunate,

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

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

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’

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

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