Leading up to the release of Imperial Assault during GenCon 2014, many throughout the boardgame world had for a while been openly and loudly wishing for a Star Wars themed version of Twilight Imperium, but turned out it was another Fantasy Flight Games classic, Descent, that got the Star Wars

Specter Ops: Shadow of Babel is a hidden movement game for 2-5 players. It was designed by Emerson Matsuuchi, as the first collaboration between his company Nazca Games and Plaid Hat Games. In this stealth-style game, one player plays as an Agent who tries to infiltrate the mega-corporation Raxxon, while

If you hadn’t heard much about The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt yet, the panel of this week’s GT Reboot Podcast will be more than glad to tell you about it. This week Eric, Travis, and Sean all wax on about Geralt’s latest, while making an attempt to

During an Activision-Blizzard investor call, we learned that subscription numbers for World of Warcraft have dropped significantly from the peak numbers we saw during the launch of its current expansion, Warlords of Draenor. This sent a lot of players, some active, some long-since moved on, and some having never put

E-sports has grown exponentially over the past few years. It used to be a small phenomenon, and then one only contained in the PC-bang-obsessed land of South Korea, but now competitive gaming permeates gaming culture. That movement is pretty much spearheaded by the advent of MOBA games: five-on-five games where

Endless Legend was a sleeper hit for fans of 4x strategy in 2014. From the devs of Endless Space, Legend was a nice mix of fantasy, unique races, asymmetric tactics and that feeling of “just one more turn.” Well, the Guardians DLC does a lot to add to that “one

I don’t play a lot of what might be categorized as casual games. I found Candy Crush to be fairly pay-to-win, so that didn’t stay installed long. Don’t get me wrong — I love gem-matching games, but other than efforts from Popcap, I always feel like they are

Castles in contemporary culture are almost invariably associated with a certain skew towards the less than sane. They occupy a strange corner in our architectural imagination, somewhere between Arthurian nostalgia for the medieval and the dark whimsy of old fairy tales. They almost construct themselves in our mind’s eye