Colosseum Board Game

I don’t play Colosseum enough.  It is basically a set-collection game with an auction component, but the fact that your end score only amounts to the BEST event (tile collection) you create at any point during the game, makes the game quite unique.

As commanded by the Emperor, Rome is in the midst of [...]

Battleship Galaxies

I just recently picked up Battleship Galaxies from Hasbro.  It is a faint spiritual successor to the original Battleship in only one tiny mechanism that utilizes a grid to determine hits on a spacecraft.  The board game is garnering a lot of favorable reviews due to it’s excellent pre-painted spacecraft miniatures and that fact [...]

Valve’s Alien Swarm Still Rocks

Yeah, I’m extremely late with this one, but I’m sure there are many people out there who haven’t yet tried Alien Swarm… the free game that Valve released on Steam.  If you have a Steam account you can just log in, download Alien Swarm, and play the heck out of it for free.

Alien [...]

Cool New iPhone Game – IsoTope

Check it out.  Sort like Grid Wars.

Isotope

WeeWar Victory! Muhahahahahaha

Blue wins.

Linerider.com is Addictive

linerider.com

Thanks E, for showing me this and forcing me to play with it for quite a while.

Review: World of Warcraft Trading Card Game

So I’ve constructed two different 60-card decks, two 40-card decks, and have played the game about 25 times. I think I’m ready to tell you what I think about the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.

A bit of background

As with many others who are playing or might be interested in the WoWTCG, [...]

Review: Gulo Gulo Family Boardgame

Gulo Gulo is a fun and extremely well balanced game for families with children.  The mechanics of the game itself, not luck, is what makes Gulo Gulo balanced when playing a game with kids and adults.  The fact that luck is only a tiny part of this game goes a long way in my [...]

Review: Max – Cooperative Family Boardgame

Max is a simple, cooperative boardgame where the players take on the role of three little animals (mouse, chipmunk, bird) attempting to get to their homes in a tree as Max (the cat) tries to catch them.  No reading is required.

After introducing myself to BGG, I ended up making a purchase from Funagain.com [...]