When you’re a resident of a little town of about 3,700, it’s unheard of to find anything local on the map of an award-winning board game. Yet there’s tiny Ripley, Ohio, on both the board of Freedom: The Underground Railroad and as a card in the

How funny are you? Are you any good at making your friends laugh? What about staying on-topic? Can you add to the subject at hand without going off on a tangent? How quickly can you react? Everyone else at the table is going to put in their two cents, and

Non-sequels have become a standard in our industry. When a company wants to make a new game for a franchise, but doesn’t want it to be a direct follow-up, it’s simple to release a game that adds more content without having to commit to that full “number-up.” Some,

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Host Sean Lama is joined by Gaming Trend staffers Lucious Barnes, Kenneth Shepard, and Eric Van Allen as they discuss the games they are looking forward to most this Fall season, the experience of covering E3 for the first time and how it’s different than PAX, the Ubisoft controversy

Quarriors has been a popular game for a while now, with a single core set and four expansions, giving the game plenty of variety and adding new concepts to make the game interesting. You might think that WizKids would be happy to give Quarriors a rest, especially after the success

I read somewhere that more than two hundred games were released at GenCon a few weeks ago. That is a lot of cardboard and plastic. Hyperborea was one of those games unveiled to the world, but is it worth talking about? Yes, yes it is. I know I have not

Ryse: Son of Rome Review [Gaming Trend] Watch this video on YouTube They say history is doomed to repeat itself. Indeed, it seems enemies will always put their explosive content in red, shiny barrels and bosses’ weak spots will always glow. Launch titles for new consoles tend to range from,