Imperial Assault is a board game that was released in late 2014. I only got around to playing it over the weekend,…
In the board game world, the North American convention season is mostly over. Gen Con saw a unique attendance of…
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Like video games and comics, there’s a weirdness to what makes a board game rare and valuable. Sometimes it’s…
As Redditor KongoBoom discovered, one way of passing time until Fallout 4’s release is designing a New Vegas Monopoly board. A physical version of the set is in the works, with NCR, Legion and Pre-war money used as currency instead of caps. There’s higher-res pics of the board and some cards below. (via Polygon)
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Outside of work hours (or work assignments), I'm finding myself playing as many board games as I am video games…
In real life Toby's a database guy for Goldman Sachs. Tonight, he's XCOM's Chief Scientist and he's spending…
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Monolith wanted $80,000 for a Conan The Barbarian board game. They're on track to get over $1 million.
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Freespace, the last of the great PC space shooters, is coming back. But as a tabletop miniatures wargame. Made by…
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You might know that the long-awaited new edition of Dungeons & Dragons is upon us. You might be playing it right…
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The new XCOM board game sounds phenomenal, but last month I played a different kind of XCOM board game. Watch the…
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While the idea of a co-op XCOM board game sounded great, the fact it required use of an app turned a lot of people -…