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…
Dark Deeds 2nd Edition Review
Dark streets, rich vendors with loot aplenty, and pompous fools that deserve a bludgeoning are all a part of a typical night in the brand new second edition release of Dark Deeds – a game about thieving and trying to…
Minds Beneath Us Really Nails the Disastrous Capitalist Hell That Awaits Us in the Future
I’m not an adventure game or visual novel head, if I’m honest. I’m not sure what it was about Minds Beneath Us that made me want to step out of my norms and give it a try. It looks good,…
You Gotta be Kitten Me Review
I am someone who has backed arguably far too many board games through crowdfunding. I find joy in large boxes packed full of plastic miniatures or sleeved cards, and hearing things like “complex” and “takes all day to play” makes…
Winds of Numa Sera: The Board Game Preview
Developed by Darkrose Studios and based on the 2022 Dark Horse graphic novel of the same name, The Winds of Numa Sera is a brand-new strategy game for 2-4 players that is currently finding success on Kickstarter. Darkrose Studios was…
Deathbound’s Polypsychic Combat Lifts it Out of the Soulslike Quagmire
In 2024, being a soulslike must be a lot of pressure. Not only are you being compared with some of the most popular and highly regarded games ever made, including the expansion to one of the greatest games of the…
Warframe: 1999 Makes the Turn of the Century a Nightmare (and a Love Story)
Since 2013, Warframe has been one of those games that you either play hardcore or don’t play at all. Many players bounce of it’s very obtuse and repetitive early game, but the ones that can stick with it are rewarded…
Hero: Tales of the Tomes is a great all-in-one card game for fans of TCGs
Trading card games like Magic: The Gathering, Digimon, Final Fantasy, and others are perhaps my favorite genre of tabletop goodness. Being a child of the late ’80s and growing up in the ’90s, I attribute this love to my fond…
Untapped Thoughts – Modern Horizons 3 Has Me Feeling Nostalgic
The Modern Horizon line of releases for Magic is always uniquely exciting, thanks to its focus on reprinting classic cards. These reprints serve an important role in the meta of Magic – making old cards legal again in the modern…
Until We Meet Again
To my dear readers, listeners, and friends, I really never thought I’d write this letter, or that when I shared this news, it’d be under very different circumstances. But people change, and time flows endlessly in new directions. Here is…
Destiny 2: The Final Shape Review
Destiny, in its many forms, has been around as a living game for 3556 days. That’s just shy of 10 years, and The Final Shape expansion of what Bungie is calling “The Light and Darkness Saga” acts as the end…
