San Francisco: Mid-1800s. At the height of the gold rush, thousands of speculators made their way to the goldfields of California. As they came, hundreds of vessels lay abandoned off the coast. A group of entrepreneurs capitalized on the situation to try and build their own empires with the resources
Welcome to Jurassic P….wait let’s try that again welcome to Dinosaur World. Do you have a desire to manage your own dinosaur theme park? If you do then get ready to explore the board game Dinosaur World. In what once started out as an expansion to Dinosaur Island,
I’m sure that Wizkids wasn’t following my train of thought when they themed Bequest around supervillainy, but it really is a perfect metaphor for this game. When I first played Bequest, I was legitimately feeling like it may be one of my new staple filler games. But, after
I’m sure that Wizkids wasn’t following my train of thought when they themed Bequest around supervillainy, but it really is a perfect metaphor for this game. When I first played Bequest, I was legitimately feeling like it may be one of my new staple filler games. But, after
San Francisco: Mid-1800s. At the height of the gold rush, thousands of speculators made their way to the goldfields of California. As they came, hundreds of vessels lay abandoned off the coast. A group of entrepreneurs capitalized on the situation to try and build their own empires with the resources
Welcome to Jurassic P….wait let’s try that again welcome to Dinosaur World. Do you have a desire to manage your own dinosaur theme park? If you do then get ready to explore the board game Dinosaur World. In what once started out as an expansion to Dinosaur Island,
I watch an absurd amount of cooking competition shows. Since the focus of most of these is on how the cooks deal with adversity, one of the most common tropes is some series of events conspiring to put one of the contestants behind the eight ball, needing to do too
Greenbrier’s latest entry into the “cute but stabby” genre, Tales of BarBEARia comes out this month, and Julie Ahern gave us the lowdown on this standalone successor to BarBEARian Battlegrounds.
The fourth game in the hit Azul series just launched at Essen Spiel this last weekend, but last month Martin from Plan B Games walked us through this wonderfully green-themed tile placement game at Gen Con 2021. Queen’s Garden is designed to have a little more difficulty than the
Will Sobel of Greenbrier Games gives us a demo of their upcoming survival adventure game Kickstarter, Fire for Light at Gen Con 2021. This cooperative game pits players against the environment and the creatures that inhabit it. The Kickstarter launches in March, so stay tuned to Gaming Trend for more
The wrap that the second edition of Polis comes in features a full-throated endorsement from Jason Matthews- the designer of Twilight Struggle, one of the most highly regarded two-player board games to date. It also quotes a BGG user, who likens the game to a knife fight in a phone
