2024 Holiday Tabletop Gift Guide
Tis the season for the temperatures to drop and the weather to worsen, and the idea of going outside is becoming less appealing. One of the best indoor activities you can find is getting some friends together and playing a…
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake Review
I wasn’t playing many RPGs back in March of 1992; I don’t know many four-year-olds who were, to be fair. But when Dragon Quest III was released on the Game Boy Color in 2001, I dove in and soaked it…
Magic The Gathering x Marvel Secret Lair Superdrop Preview
It has been a year, nearly to the day, since Wizards of the Coast first revealed their collaboration with the comic behemoth Marvel, and today at New York Comic Con the cover has been pulled back on the first entry…
Magic x Marvel Secret Lair Reveal – Top 5 Equipment I want to throw at my friends as Captain America
Wizards of the Coast has finally revealed at New York Comic Con today the first issue in the much-anticipated multi-year collaboration arc between Magic: The Gathering and Marvel, featuring the upcoming Marvel Secret Lair Superdrop. This Superdrop will allow players…
Interview with Rebecca Ford – Warframe Creative Director – on 90s nostalgia and more in Warframe 1999
As a child of the late 1980s and having grown up in the 1990s, seeing games dig into the rich and weird culture of 90s imagery is wild to me. When Digital Extremes first pulled back the curtain of their…
Shogun Showdown Plays Like the Best Samurai Movies Feel
Samurai have got some of the best branding out of all of the old world warriors from yesteryear. Most are presented as noble and prideful, deep-thinking and curious, stoic and disciplined, hardened and lethal. History might object to much of…
Star Trek: Star Realms – A Logical Crossover
In the realm of the deck-building genre of board games, few offerings make it as easy to try out this popular style of game as Star Realms from Wise Wizard Games. For me, Star Realms—particularly the small-box version—has earned itself…
Kickstarter Preview – Voidpilot’s Legacy
*Note: I was sent a prototype version of this game to play, and as such, the components and rules may change before the final release. As a long-time video game player, I have never entirely understood or grasped the allure…
PAX West 2024 – Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake’s visuals leave me feeling a little disappointed
Ever since the first Octopath Traveler, I have truly believed in the wonders of Square Enix’s HD-2D aesthetic. The brilliant melding of Square’s expertise with pixel art and 3D models has enamored me and continues to do so. That’s why,…
PAX West 2024 – Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven looks to be the best jumping in point to the series
Back at the very start of the year, one of my goals was to dip my toe into Square’s long-running SaGa franchise finally, and to thank my vigor in completing this goal, Square has graced me with not only one…
PAX West 2024 Highlights
Another PAX is in the books, and it brought another round of unforgettable games and lifelong memories with friends. While PAX East increasingly feels like a showcase for indie titles over AAA games (I’ve started calling it “PAX Indie”), PAX…
Universus is the card game equivalent of bashing your childhood action figures together
There were few things that I took more joy in as a kid than imagining epic battles between my action figures – struggles to the death, unlikely alliances, and harrowing underwater clashes in the kitchen sink. A similar excitement comes…
