Tabletop
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70268Tennpenny Parks review — An exceptionally vibrant purgatory
Come one, come all, to see the magnificent Tenpenny Parks! It’s got worker placement, it’s got polyominoes, it’s got player interaction, it’s...
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90293Avatar The Last Airbender: Fire Nation Rising – Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked
Avatar The Last Airbender: Fire Nation Rising is a cooperative game where players build up a team of characters while they try...
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372Simplicity with lots of personality — Emotional Intelligence PAX Unplugged preview
One of many games Gaming Trend had the opportunity to experience at Pax Unplugged was Emotional Intelligence: A Personality Deduction Game from...
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65287SPECTRE: The Board Game review— no, Mr. Bond, I expect you to sigh
Every now and then, a game comes around that is so mechanically unique and interesting that I have to make room for...
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223Bigfoot: Roll and Smash preview – Monster trucks and programming? SMASHED IT!
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! Get on down to “insert name here” arena for Monster Jam. See your favorite trucks smash! Growing up, I...
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85345Disney Sorcerer’s Arena: Epic Alliances – Thrills and Chills Expansion review – It is spooky good fun
When the original Sorcerer’s Arena came to the table, I was already a fan. Not only am I a big fan of...
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75289Star Scrappers: Orbital – Building a space station one card at a time
Before Terraforming Mars was a huge hit, Jacob Fryxelius had a far more humble game called Space Station that involved taking turns...
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299Ares Games releases War of the Ring — The Card Game
Ares Games is releasing War of the Ring — The Card Game on December 21, 2022 in stores, with more events to...
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301Roll20 and Paizo Inc. will support Pathfinder Infinite content on the Roll20 virtual tabletop
Pathfinder and Starfinder community content is coming to the Roll20 virtual tabletop thanks to an agreement made by Roll20 and Paizo Inc....
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397BoardGameTables.com is changing its name to Allplay, new website coming in January
BoardGameTables.com, founded eight years ago, is currently in the process of changing their name to Allplay and launching a new website, www.letsallplay.com,...
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342Wizards of the Coast release Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn, a D&D board game
On December 2nd, Wizards of the Coast released a companion board game meant to be played alongside D&D campaigns. Enlist with your...
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85311Asking For Trobils: Companions review: A hitchhiker’s guide to Trobil hunting
If you’ve played Asking for Trobils before, you’ve seen the nods and winks at iconic science fiction franchises in the design of...
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90328Asking For Trobils Review: They’ve got a new paint scheme, they’ve gone orange!
Don’t let Asking For Trobils’ orange-dominant color palette and cartoon-looking spaceships fool you, it’s an enjoyable game of strategy, resource collection, and...
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75302Aldabas: Doors of Cartagena review – Hold the door for a card game en-door-sment.
Columbia is known for many things in today’s day and age such as coffee, Pablo Escobar, and its door knockers? In colonial...
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388Gloomhaven: The Roleplaying Game – Coming to Backerkit 2023
Hot off their release of Frosthaven, which is currently shipping to Kickstarter backers, Cephalofair Games announced Gloomhaven: The Roleplaying Game at PAXU...
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244Galaxy Trucker: Keep on Trucking expansion now available in the USA
Galaxy Trucker: Keep on Trucking, a new expansion for the fast and goofy family game Galaxy Trucker, is now available in the...
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80309Catherine: The Cities of the Tsarina review—activating aristocrats
In my continuing quest to collect games that work with both my non-gaming family and my gaming friends, finding Catherine was a...
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85319Shake That City review — Randomizing colored cubes has never been this fun
Editor’s note: We get a lot of prototype games at Gaming Trend, in various states of completion, and usually we have a...
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80330Gutenberg review — don’t stop the presses!
The advent of the printed word was an astounding revelation for the world. What once started out as hand copying illustrations and...
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322Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught preview— it’s okay to be a murder hobo
There is a well-known subset of TTRPG players who are primarily interested in combat and acquiring loot colloquially known as murder hobos....
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85459Ready Set Bet review — A fast paced, fun, and exciting… game?
While I’ve never been to a horse race and I never will, I’ve always enjoyed horse racing and betting games. However, they...
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362MÖRK BORG Cyberpunk Spinoff CY_BORG released
Free League Publishing and Stockholm Kartell officially released the cyberpunk spinoff of MÖRK BORG, the tabletop RPG CY_BORG. “The game casts the...
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396Gaming Trend 2022 Holiday Guide — Tabletop edition!
You’ve seen our recommendations for video games and for hardware and gear, but we have definitely saved the best for last! It’s...
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85407Unmatched: Houdini vs. the Genie review— a magical melee
I had been faced with a dilemma when writing previous Unmatched reviews. Since each set is essentially a standalone expansion, should I...
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367ELDEN RING The Board Game comes to kickstarter
Steamforged Games announced a new upcoming tabletop combat game, ELDEN RING The Board Game, coming to kickstarter later this month. Based on...
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90415Massive Darkness 2 – Lightbringers heading straight into Hell
Massive Darkness 2 is a co-op dungeon crawler for 1 to 6 players. Players pick from different classes of ‘Lightbringers’ that head...
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70379Nacho Pile review — There’s a game in my bag of chips!
It’s happened – we now have a party game that could easily be confused with the snacks at the party, which may...
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80349Say Anything review — The real fun is the friends we made along the way
Party games are a dime a dozen. They are often easy to learn, accessible to all, and can be finished fairly quickly,...
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322The Fates duel once again in Star Wars: Shatterpoint
Asmodee and Atomic Mass Games announced Star Wars: Shatterpoint today, a miniature skirmish game planned to release in June of 2023. From...
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355The War of the Lance begins again in Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen and Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn this December
The long awaited return of Dragonlance is finally near! On December 6th, the legendary world of Krynn enters the modern D&D era...
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50361San Francisco review— hit the track, Jack
I’m a self-described Knizia fanboy, so I was extremely excited when I saw we had received his newest design for review. As...
