Wizkids announced recently that Fantasy Realms is available in game stores now. The card game, designed by Bruce Glassco, revolves around combo...
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When you talk about trading and negotiation games, you usually think games with boards that fill the table with lots of little...
Most dungeon crawls have highly detailed figures and map tiles that snap together. Lugging the monstrous boxes can break your back if...
Ares Games has gone from a small publishing house starting with War of the Ring and expanding to several large games. They...
With the popularity of 7 Wonders, you might have thought that an onslaught of card drafting games would be released. However, it’s...
Pairs is a game that uses a unique deck of cards called a pyramid deck. Several different themed Pairs decks have been...
If you’ve seen any of my posts about White Wizard Games, you know that I thought they had something special with Star...
Nearly 100 years ago, famed British explorer Percy Fawcett set out into the Amazon rainforest in search of the city of Z,...
While many of the collectible card games have crashed and burned, Yu-Gi-Oh is one of the few games to sustain life over...
Mike Selinker has had a huge career in the gaming, from writing for TSR and being creative director at Wizards of the...
It can be a challenge for game designers to make a short civilization game. A great civilization game makes you feel like...
I still remember looking at a prototype of Star Realms before Origins and being very impressed with it. Here was a deck-builder...
Issue 1: Preparing for your first local tournament Do you own ten thousand cards and six different playmats? Have you had at...
It’s impossible to understate the popularity of card games. For a medium that has been around for hundreds of years, it’s amazing...
While it’s great to have a large table full of miniatures and tokens, sometimes something with cards can be a nice diversion....
Battling opponents may be the focus of many deck-building card games, yet rarely do those games involve actual battles. SunTzuGames’ upcoming kickstarter,...
Sentinels of the Multiverse became such a hit that it created a brand new publisher. They are one of the true success...
In a time that historians cement as the Dark Age, we find ourselves threatened by the agents of the dark itself. Witches...
Tabletop Day is something that couldn’t have existed even a few years ago. The recent burst of excitement and energy for nerdy...
Fantasy Flight has definitely nailed down the formula for the living card game formula. With The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars,...
While it’s not uncommon for games to have a solo mode, not many board games are purely solo experiences. One of those...
While big gaming conferences like Origins and Gen Con are known for having large gaming competitions, many other smaller ones are held...
I take it as a point of pride that many people I know have an instinctive fear of my voice whenever the...
After pushing back the monstrous hordes in Valeria: Card Kingdoms and exploring the wilds they left behind in Quests for Valeria, the...
The opening paragraph of Behind the Throne’s rulebook talks of secret organizations conspiring to manipulate courtiers as they strive to gather enough...
Card games can be a great gateway to get others to play games. Playing games with cards at a table seems to...
It’s not uncommon to see second editions of games coming out. Sometimes the gameplay gets tweaked, other times the art or the...
While Scott Pilgrim hasn’t been in the limelight much lately. While he’s been in comics, a video game, and a feature movie,...
The Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle deck-building game was popular not only for its theme, but it also gradually introduced people to cooperative...
The DC Deck-Building Game has had a lot of longevity with several versions released for it. The next crossover pack looks very...