Nov 1, 2017

  I have a love-hate relationship with deck-building games, but every once in a while, there is one that comes along and tries to turn the genre on its side. This is one of those times.     Yes, you are thinking correct here, you’re building trees! Stumped has a unique set of mechanics.  Each player starts with a hand of 5 dirt cards. With...

Nov 1, 2017

  Cryptozoic Entertainment, and Cartoon Network Enterprises today announced the November 15 release of Rick and Morty: Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind Deck-Building Game. Based on the Season 1 episode of Adult Swim’s hit series Rick and Morty that features a multitude of Ricks and Mortys from different realities, the deck-building game allows 2-5...

Oct 27, 2017

  I’ve set it many many times on the podcast, there is no end to the munchkin machine and the games they can churn out.     Munchkin Starfinder brings the roleplaying hit’s six races, seven classes, various spaceships and planets into the Munchkin universe – the most races and classes in a Munchkin box yet – as players battle with creatures...

Oct 27, 2017

  One of my favorite “B” movies of all time is Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space. Plan 9 is famous for being one of the worst movies ever made, was Bela Lugosi’s final movie and is so bad it’s amazingly good.   Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the...

Oct 17, 2017

  *Note* this preview was based on the prototype cards, they might change in the final printing, also I could not look at the playmats, as they were not available as of this preview. This is an expansion set for the original Heroes of History card game, featuring Midnight Riders (Revolutionary War) and Echoes of the Plains (Civil War). We reviewed that...

Oct 13, 2017

  In Haunt the House, players will take on the role of apparitions and phantoms to scare Ghost Hunters who are sneaking around your cozy mansion! Hunters will carry a variety of gear from candles, to flashlights, lanterns, torches, crowbars, maps, keys and lanterns! Each player will have an identical deck of scare cards; 4 Bumps, 4 Chills, 4 Creaks and 4...

Oct 8, 2017

  The beatles once said “All you need is love” and that rings true in Tanto Cuore.     Tanto Cuore is a deck building game and is designed for 2 to 4 players. Each player starts with the same cards available to them, and then takes turn “purchasing” cards from a pool of available items. Tanto Cuore offers a unique twist on the genre. ...

Oct 4, 2017

  Barbarossa is set in a fictional Second World War setting, where anime German military girls rush against Moscow to defeat the evil magician Stalin. It is for 2-5 players. In this game, players control a division of the German army set to invade Russia during World War II. They will have to build up their army, create strategies and gain support to be...

Sep 8, 2017

  There is a new  Magic: The Gathering digital card game on the way. It was teased last month, but now the curtain has been lifted and Wizards of the Coast  announced Magic: The Gathering Arena, a free-to-play title that Wizards of the Coast is developing internally through its division called Digital Games Studio. It’s the first game that the studio...

Sep 8, 2017

  This review only covers the Solitaire version of the game. Dungeon Crawler supports a total of four different formats of play. These are Solitaire, Competitive (2-players), Co-operative (2-4 players), and Multi-player (3 -6 players). Dungeon Crawler is a well a Dungeon Crawl, it’s you and against the dungeon. You will do that with the different decks of...

Sep 7, 2017

  Things are about to get all Timey-Wimey for Looney Labs as the tardis is about to land.     The game will include various regenerations of the Doctor, assorted companions, Gallifreyan tech, K-9, Cybermen, Daleks, Weeping Angels, and the Master. Players adventure through Time and Space in this unique spin on the card game with ever-changing...

Sep 7, 2017

  Drinking Fluxx comes to us from Fully Baked Ideas, an imprint of Looney Labs, takes the classic Fluxx Which is the card game with ever-changing rules into new territory. Geared towards 2-6 players adults 21 and over of course! Please drink responsibly!     In drinking Fluxx you drink, but not to excess, Drinking Fluxx is a pretty responsible...

Aug 16, 2017

  The original Master of Orion (MoO) computer game released in 1993, creating the 4X video game genre and capturing the attention of strategy loving gamers for over 30 years. The Master of Orion series has been featured on numerous “greatest games of all time” lists; several retrospective reviews from such established gaming media sites as GameSpot and IGN...

Aug 13, 2017

  Heading to Gen Con 50 next week? If so you might be in luck if you were hoping to buy Dragonfire, Catalyst Games has announced they will have Dragonfire at the show for purchase. Dragonfire is a 2 to 6 player deckbuilding game set in the world’s greatest roleplaying game, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. Players choose from a number of races, from dwarf to elf,...

Aug 2, 2017

  WizKids has announced Dungeon Hustle, a unique spin on a  dungeon crawl from designers Ben and Tim Eisner.   In Dungeon Hustle, 2-4 players are the fighter, rogue, cleric, and mage, moving through a dungeon picking up cards and colored items. The twist is that as long as players keep moving along a path of similarly colored dungeon tiles, they can...

Jul 27, 2017

  A 20% increase in game sales over the same quarter last year drove growth for Hasbro in its Q2 report. Dungeons & Dragons got a special shout-out from CEO Brian Goldner in an interview with Jim Cramer on Mad Money, in which he revealed that D&D sales (including digital) were up 50% over the previous year. “Dungeons & Dragons is performing at...

Jul 27, 2017

  Ok, so this one hit me right in the feels, takes me back when I was a wee lad, pumping quarters into the machine trying to build that burger.     Data East’s Burger Time the Card Game takes you back to the arcade of the 80’s. When we were all young and had pockets full of quarters! Burger Time is a 2 player (can be played by 1...

Jul 26, 2017

  It’s always great to see when a successful Kickstarter, transits into the retail sector, and this is just the case with 5 Minute Dungeon   Wiggles 3D Games has partnered with Spin Master Games, to produce and sell the retail version of 5-Minute Dungeon. 5-Minute Dungeon is a co-operative, real-time dungeon crawling card game for 2-5 players...

Jun 27, 2017

  The slayer will raise as  Upper Deck’s Legendary:  Buffy the Vampire Slayer game has been set for August.   Announced at Gen Con last year  the new game will bring the world of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show into the Legendary card game.  Now Buffy and her friends can fight villains and “Big Bads” in deck building game style. This stand-alone...

Jun 12, 2017

  Fluxx is all grown up, and is not of legal drinking age (In the US at least) To coincide  on July 24th, Looney Labs will be releasing Drinking Fluxx     Drinking Fluxx is a new theme all about drinking games. Obviously, this one is only marketed towards adults only.     If you’ve never played a Fluxx game before, it’s a really simple...