Tom Jolly’s games often make us feel clever, mean, lucky, as if we’re playing alternately at the expense and at the mercy of our friends. His designs give us leeway to bend the rules either just enough to win the game or, as is more often the case,

Back in 2010, in one of the best years ever for game publishing, Marco Ruskowski and Marcel Süßelbeck partnered up with Wolfgang Panning to create Fresco, which was almost universally lauded as a beautiful, engaging, strategic yet family-friendly game. Five years later, Marco and Marcel are back at it with

Before we get started, let me say that you really should just stop reading this right now, get in your car, drive on down to your friendly neighborhood game store and get yourself a copy of Paperback. It’s a little difficult to get a copy, since first time designer

Dimension is a very neat little puzzle that is ideal an ideal casual game: it is simple to understand and a lot of fun. In Dimension, each player will be building a pyramid of spheres according to certain randomly determined rules. Each player will have their own player board which

When Sony and Microsoft announced their new consoles the first thought I had was that the anemic hard drives must have saved them literally tens of dollars. 500GB of space might have been an amazing amount of space at one point in time, but with games like Batman: Arkham Knight

Believe it or not, even after years of being submerged in video games and gaming culture, my first time playing a Street Fighter game happened about a month ago at Sony’s E3 booth. One of my Gaming Trend colleagues and I walked over to a demo to play a

One minute you are an inspector attempting to deduce the identity of a killer, the next you are working to crack the safes of a casino, and after that you revealing the identities of rival spies. Noir: Black Box Edition offers you six games for the price of one. Using

When Crash Games launched Yardmaster Express on Kickstarter last year, I took my first dive into the genre of filler games. Filers are meant to be played in a handful of minutes and can be used as a short break between longer games or strung together for a light hearted