When it comes to wargames, a lot of folks tend to not play them because the barrier to entry is high. Models, books, assembling miniatures, painting minis, buying terrain, making time for a game…it all stacks up, and then you find yourself with a pile of gray, no time,
It’s not very often that I get to see a game go from conception to prototype to finished product. Back in the spring of 2023, the GamingTrend crew got a firsthand look at the Gnome Hollow prototype and had a great time collecting mushrooms and building paths. At Origins
When I started painting in 2015, there weren’t too many brands out there. As I mentioned in my review of the Army Painter Fanatic line, I was lost in a sea of tools and brands, but paint wise, there were just a handful of companies offering paint. Nearly ten
The end is upon us. The end of the remastered core books, that is. Player Core 2 (PC2) is finally here and chocked full of new ancestries, player classes, archetypes, feats, and spells to add to your Pathfinder campaigns. I personally have been waiting for this book to see what
Bunkers & Badasses Deluxe Edition is a surprisingly high quality release for fans of Borderlands. If that sounds like a back-handed compliment, it’s only because this review comes out at a difficult time for the franchise. It’s been a while since an official game release, and though Borderlands
Expeditions: Around the World, designed by Wolfgang Kramer, published by Super Meeple, and brought to the US by Hachette Boardgames is a route-building game with a twist. Everyone is engaged in a tug of war to guide the three shared global expeditions to reach their secret objective locations.
At the
My primary complaint with World Wonders was that there aren’t enough monuments. At higher player counts, which I think the game plays best at, you could very easily run out of monuments to build half way through the game. For a game that is heavily focused on building these
Bloomburrow might just be the most hyped set of Magic: The Gathering of 2024. The twee woodland critters style had a lot of people’s attention as something different coming to the game. Even with the variety of themes we’ve had this year alone (noir detectives and weird west)
