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Doom: The Board Game: The Kotaku Review
I never thought we’d get a faithful board game adaptation of Doom, of all things, but here we are: Fantasy Flight’s latest dungeon crawler plays just like the heavy metal first-person shooter, only without all the blood. It’s actually not the first time the company have tried this: in 2004 Fantasy Flight released a board…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2017 -
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Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne: The Kotaku Review
The Iron Throne is what happens when you take pretty much every murderous stereotype about Game of Thrones, break them down then turn them into a board game where you lie to your friends before stabbing them in the guts. Based heavily on an older title called Cosmic Encounter, but here leveraging the immense popularity…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 31, 2016 -
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The Star Wars Board Games Just Keep Getting Better
Star Wars: Imperial Assault and Star Wars: Armada are two of the biggest and best board games around at the moment. Both have had recent expansions that shake things up, and both of those expansions have been terrific If you’re just joining us, both are games from Fantasy Flight. Imperial Assault is a turn-based tactical…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2016 -
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Scythe: The Kotaku Review
It’s not every day you get to rampage through the 1920s countryside in control of a fleet of giant mechs. Scythe is a new board game from Stonemaier Games. If the art up top (which is on the front of the game’s box) looks familiar, that’s because the entire game is based on a universe…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 12, 2016 -
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Star Wars: Armada: The Kotaku Review
If there’s one thing you do more than anything else while playing Star Wars: Armada, it’s shout INTENSIFY FORWARD FIREPOWER The last of Fantasy Flight’s major Star Wars board games thatI haven’t got aroundto reviewing yet on this site (it was released in 2015), Armada is a game primarily concerned with capital ship combat. So…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2016 -
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Star Wars: Rebellion: The Kotaku Review
Most Star Wars games put you in command of a few brave heroes of the galactic struggle. Star Wars: Rebellion, a new board game from Fantasy Flight, puts you in command of the whole damn war. Veteran PC gamers may remember that in 1998 Lucasarts released a strategy game called Star Wars: Rebellion, which let…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2016 -
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Star Wars: Imperial Assault: The Kotaku Review
Imperial Assault is a board game that was released in late 2014. I only got around to playing it over the weekend, and I already count those months between as wasted Having made a ton of money off their excellent X-Wing game before moving onto capital ship battles, Imperial Assault is Fantasy Flight’s shot at…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 7, 2015 -
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X-Wing: Miniatures: The Kotaku Review
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. Built on the same bones as Wings of War…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 22, 2012