Scrabble Updates Dictionary For The First Time In Nine Years
Imagine a world where you can play the word "selfie" or "twerk" in Scrabble. Sound absurd? Both these words are definitely a playable possibility starting later this year.
Inception Board Game Is A Board Game Inside A Board Game...
Inceptor is an upcoming board game that is, in everything except name (because that involves licensing), based on Chris Nolan's movie Inception.
Lucasarts' Star Wars Creations Return For X-Wing Tabletop Game
The X-Wing miniatures game is almost the perfect tabletop experience. At least if you like Star Wars and fun things. About the only thing that could make it better would be to start introducing more units based on video game starfighters and oh what's this?
Dungeons & Dragons Yoga. Yup.
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Well I guess it was bound to happen eventually.
Here Are the Items that Your Gamer Friends Actually Want as Presents
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If there's a tabletop gamer in your life, your gift-giving dilemma is one of abundance – there are so many awesome things to give a gamer, how do you pick the right one? We'll sort you out with this guide to great gaming gifts.
Nintendo, Take My Money, Please
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At the end of this month, Nintendo will be re-releasing a game. It's beautiful. An all-time classic. And it's...not a video game.
What was the most memorable game you ever played?
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The best role playing game campaigns create stories you’ll be telling around the gaming table decades later. But what's that magic ingredient that takes a game from great to once-in-a-lifetime? We talked to gamers, game designers, and authors to find out what makes a campaign truly memorable.
The Greatest Out-of-Print Tabletop RPGs That We Still Love
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A lot of our love for tabletop games comes down to nostalgia. A game we played in the 80s might have terrible rules and a hackneyed game world, but we love it all the same. Sadly, many of those classic RPGs are long out of print. Here’s a look at the best of these lost games.
There Is A Kickstarter For "Flying Assault Butts"
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There are genuinely attractive Kickstarters, there are joke Kickstarters, and then there are Kickstarters like this, which somehow manages to be both at once.
Cards Against Humanity was once a Kickstarter asking for $4000. It's since made over $12 million in revenue. Here's a great writeup on how the game, and its creators, got there.
Finally, A Promising Robotech Game!
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Robotech (or, specifically, Macross) games have a chequered past. Some have been OK! Others terrible. Some have even been pretty good, though you wouldn't know it, since the best ones (on PS2 and PSP) have never been officially been released outside Japan.
X-Wing Tabletop Game Pays Awesome Tribute To Dark Forces
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The X-Wing Miniatures tabletop game, which I like very much, has a new line of tiny little spacecraft on the way.
Your Crazy Childhood Nerd Arguments Are Now A Card Game
"I'M OPTIMUS PRIME AND I SHOT YOU IN THE FACE", "WELL I'M A NINJA TURTLE AND I BLOCKED IT THEN KICKED HIII-YAH", "WELL I USED MY FORCEFIELD TO STOP IT THEN TURNED INTO A TRUCK AND VVRROOMMM DROVE OVER YOUR LEGS".
Forget The Numbers, This D&D Game Looks Great
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Part of the appeal of playing a game like Dungeons & Dragons is that you've got to use your imagination. If there's a representation of your character at all, chances are it's pretty basic.
X-Wing: Miniatures: The Kotaku Review
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Lucasarts seems intent to never release another game in the X-Wing (video game) series so long as I live. That's fine. Whatever. I can cope with that now that I can clear a tabletop and play a game of Fantasy Flight's X-Wing (the miniatures game) instead.
You Can Buy the Original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Rulebooks (Again)
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You all owe Gary Gygax more than you can possibly imagine. The creator of Dungeons & Dragons, who passed away in 2008, had a big impact on tabletop gaming, of course, but those concepts he created for paper and dice are still widely used in video games today, especially RPGs.
What Do Steve Jobs, Brutal Dictators, and Japanese Porn Stars Have in…
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That's because the folks at Chinese playing card company HCG churn out an array of cards featuring, not only the movers and shakers of modern history, but also those who move and shake in Japanese skin flicks.
The Day the Secret Service Raided a Role-Playing Game Company
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Steve Jackson Games is a company well known for its tabletop RPGs and card games. An innocent enough trade, then, so why in 1990 were its offices raided by the United States Secret Service?
The Phyrexians take over in Magic: the Gathering's upcoming expansion
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The release of Magic's newest set, New Phyrexia, is just one month away. With the Gigeresque Phyrexians winning their war against the Mirrans, the set is sure to be dark and dripping with Phyrexian infection.
Magic the Gathering’s Secret Sci-Fi History
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Magic is usually thought of as a fantasy game filled with wizards and elves and swords. Science-fiction has always been a part of the strange world of Magic, though, from the earliest artifacts to the upcoming expansion Mirrodin Besieged.