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

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

Somewhere in the deepest inaccessible depths where no light from the sun has ever reached, rests the Kingdom of Abyss. Players vie for influence, explore incredible locations, fight ancient monsters, and court the lords of the deep in their quest to claim the throne. Abyss first appears wholly original, foreign

Far out, near the edge of our solar system there lies a planet… oh wait, no, just a dwarf planet. And this dwarf planet, Pluto, is orbited by a moon… nope, scratch that, it is orbited by another dwarf planet*, Charon. In the near future, scientists find vast fields of

Nowadays, if your favorite game goes out of print, just wait. If it got gamers talking during its first printing, you might just see it again–albeit in a different skin. Evidently, enough people oohed and aahed over the gorgeous look of the game Seasons that game maker Libellud sent

Having recently reviewed Victory Point Games’ The South Shall Rise Again, I had high expectations for their latest release, Villainous Vikings. In the tradition of a Euro-style historical strategy game, it appears to be thoroughly researched, allowing players to choose from eight legendary figures including Ragnar, the warrior, Lagertha, the

Forest Pixies, Dire Giants, Cursed Banshees, Ancient Phoenixes, Mountain Dwarves, Noble Unicorns, Night Hydras and others join you as you battle to dominate and retain a few undersized patches of land in a fantasy realm, holding out against your opponents, who wield their own unique creatures and lands. Since it

Fun Fact: In 1891 Evgraf Ferdorov formally proved that there are 17 distinct plane symmetry groups. These ‘groups’ define how a pattern can be permuted on a single, two dimensional plane. Due to their application, these groups are commonly called wallpaper groups for how they describe all forms of wallpaper