How funny are you? Are you any good at making your friends laugh? What about staying on-topic? Can you add to the...
Deck builders have been increasingly popular since Dominion hit the scene. One of the deck building games that came out shortly after...
Much like rectangles are not always squares, tabletop games are not always boardgames. What is often overlooked by boardgamers is one of...
A few really interesting Kickstarters have come up lately, and now we have another one. Sure, unless you are a LARPer you...
While many deck builders have made their way to the iOS, Ascension is one of the best implementations, if not the best....
Everyone has their biases, and I’ll admit to one right off the bat: I don’t like two player head-to-head battle games. This...
I’ve been a fan of deck-building games since Dominion served as a gateway into the world of board gaming a couple of...
Medical school never prepared you for this. You are well versed in state-of-the-art 1850s medical treatment – prescribing arsenic for cholera patients,...
Dixit may be the only Spiel des Jahres winner named after a logical fallacy. The Latin phrase “ipse dixit” refers to the fallacious...
Hello! Welcome to this week’s belated Tabletop Kickstarter Update! With all of the excitement at E3 and the lesser known Origins, this...
After David Sirlin moved on from the video game world, he created his own board game company called Sirlin Games. He created...
Sometimes you see a game theme and you wonder how they came up with it. Then you look at the game and...
David Sirlin’s career has gone through a couple of shifts. From competing in fighting game tournaments to balancing characters in fighters to...
The Duels of the Planeswalkers have been coming out for several years. While the original release came to the Xbox 360, slowly...
With more awards to its name than cards included in the game, Love Letter has created quite a stir in the boardgame...
Promise me you’ll keep your pants on for now. Readers make demands of writers, but occasionally the tables turn and the writer...
I was so excited about Lost Legends that I begged for a review copy at GenCon, unsucessfully. I love the fantasy setting....
I remember seeing Sentinels of the Multiverse at GenCon 2011, but not stopping by because I was too busy with other appointments....
I really like Ascension because of how your strategy needs to change with the cards shown in the center row. I also...
When it comes to inventing things, some games set a pretty high bar. Civilization, Through the Ages, and Innovation are a veritable...
What could possibly make Firefly: The Game any better? More cards! In case you were not happy with the 250 cards in...
A Kickstarter campaign recently ended successfully for a game that consists of one card. And thus we have reached the lower limit...
Ah, the Super Bowl. The culmination of the previous football season, where the two best teams in each conference battle for supremacy....
So much for global warming! The earth has suffered cataclysmic climate change plunging it into a new ice age. You are leading...
Recently we sat down with Jason Santa Maria, creator of the recently-funded Kickstarter-fueled card game, CLEVER. The premise is simple, but the...
It is hard to follow your dreams due to circumstances. Sometimes circumstances are what lead you to follow your dreams. When Jason...
Eat This, Not That! is one of the bestselling books of the last decade. In its pages, you learn how to eat...
Set the rocket. Light it. Then step back and watch the fireworks emblazon the night. In board and card game design, no...
Leonardo da Vinci is the consummate example of the “Renaissance Man.” He enjoyed renown as a painter, engineer, sculptor, mathematician, and writer...
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, a maverick executive at 20th Century Fox took a chance on an...
How much do you enjoy playing the card game Hearts? If the answer is “I’d rather chew off my own leg than...