Tabletop Games

One of the benefits of Kickstarter has been the creativity that has come out of it.  While certain series have benefited from their previous jaunts on the site, a great number of new ideas have come out.  Dreamwars is a game currently on Kickstarter looks like it has many familiar

While the board game industry is small, Victory Point Games is one of the smallest independent companies within the niche.  You might not have heard of them, but they have produced several unique games.  One of their biggest hits is Darkest Night, and they have headed to Kickstarter to create

Gaming Trend Editor-in-Chief Ron Burke sat down with Lewis Shaw, the creator of a Kickstart-in-motion called Downsize to find out what this corporate greed simulator is all about.  The game is nearly half funded and has only been live for a few days, so we had to find out more.

When it comes to massive numbers of figures for a Kickstarter project, often CoolMiniOrNot and Soda Pop Miniatures come to mind.  While you wouldn’t be blamed for that, another company well known in the miniatures gaming market has entered into the Kickstarter fold.  Privateer Press, known for Warmachine, Hordes,

1. First off, please introduce yourselves and tell us a little bit about Burn Artists. Burn Artists is a new, incredibly unprofitable LLC started by myself, Jacob Bofferding (writer), and my partner Shawn Roberts (illustrator). We originally met in the ad industry and formed Burn Artists because we were taking

Laura stumbled on a prototype game that caught her eye at PAX South in San Antonio.  The game, Zombie Tower 3D, is already a hit in Japan, but this Summer the developers are going to take a shot at bringing it to North American shores.   We sat down with developers

When Cthulhu Wars came to Kickstarter, it was as if the Ancient Ones opened a portal and clashed at once, with the campaign raising $1.4 million.  If you have seen the box and the figures, the game itself is just as epic.  Now Petersen Games has put Onslaught Two

It seems that miniatures games have taken off since the advent of Kickstarter.  While a number of games with highly detailed miniatures came out before that, since the the theme and gameplay have changed drastically.  When I heard about Fathoms, my first response was to ask what was different about