Star Realms was the first game from White Wizard Games, but it took off like gangbusters. Since then White Wizard has expanded to include Epic and Hero Realms in their catalog. Last year White Wizard went back to their roots and funded a Kickstarter for a four-player version of Star
Ares has had a string of success with the Galaxy Defenders line. However, the designers moved forward with a fantasy setting for their next game. What resulted was the hugely successful Kickstarter campaign for Swords and Sorcery. Ares games also had a success with Master of the Galaxy, which they
It seems like there are several games with a historic Asian theme. Games like the recent Rising Sun to the old Gamemaster Series Shogun/Samurai Swords/Ikusa, samurai and ninjas seem to be bred into the boardgaming culture. At Origins I got to sit with Adrienne Ezell who designed Shogunate,
It seems like there are several games with a historic Asian theme. Games like the recent Rising Sun to the old Gamemaster Series Shogun/Samurai Swords/Ikusa, samurai and ninjas seem to be bred into the boardgaming culture. At Origins I got to sit with Adrienne Ezell who designed Shogunate,
Star Realms was the first game from White Wizard Games, but it took off like gangbusters. Since then White Wizard has expanded to include Epic and Hero Realms in their catalog. Last year White Wizard went back to their roots and funded a Kickstarter for a four-player version of Star
Ares has had a string of success with the Galaxy Defenders line. However, the designers moved forward with a fantasy setting for their next game. What resulted was the hugely successful Kickstarter campaign for Swords and Sorcery. Ares games also had a success with Master of the Galaxy, which they
GreenBriar Games has a large number of figure-heavy games like Folklore: The Afflication, the Zpocalypse series, and Vengeance. However, they decided to highlight Grimslingers and it’s expansion, as well as BarBEARian Battlegrounds. Grimslingers is a card game set in the wild west. The base game and it’s expansion
Today, Jellybean Games announced the release of its social deduction game Hidden Panda on Kickstarter from now until July 6, with a funding goal of $5,000. The game, which is all-ages in theme and content, tasks five to eight players with either finding player pandas or getting away from
When Asmodee bought up some of the entities within F2Z Entertainment, a few groups decided to create their own publisher, and Plan B Games was born. Their inaugural original game comes from designer Emerson Matsuuchi, creator of the hits VOLT: Robot Battle Arena and Specter Ops. He sat me through
If you’ve seen any of my posts about White Wizard Games, you know that I thought they had something special with Star Realms before it was even released. Since then they have released Epic and Hero Realms. I stopped by at Origins and talked to Robert Dougherty about their
Calliope Games is a company that consistently publishes fun family games. While their biggest hit is the path-creating Tsuro, they have several other fun games. If you haven’t tried Hive Mind, you owe it to yourself to check it out. Soon Calliope will be releasing two new games, Ancestree
