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If you are like us and have wanted an affordable board game table for years, some lucky folks who put their faith in the team behind Project Ironside will be getting just that shortly. Ships are landing and product is in warehouses waiting to be shipped out to anticipating backers! Here is a quick update from the team around shipping, and we also have information on how you can get into the fun by preordering your own table! That’s right,…

Party games are wildly popular in the board game space. In fact, even if you aren't a huge board game fan, I'm sure you've heard of games like Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity. So many cooperative games utilize easy to understand mechanics with fun and (often) a take-that sort of mechanic. You are all competing for points, and the most points wins. Cooperative party games are a bit less common, but a new one is about to hit the scene soon titled World Traveler.

I’ve been playing Wingspan for a few years now and have always enjoyed the games I’ve played. Recently, a brand new game with a similar feel arrived at the office for review, and my ultimate decision was that in my opinion, the Robots of the new game trumped the birds of Wingspan. So Raising Robot sits near the top of my favorite games list. But now we have something new from Stonemaier Games, Wyrmspan, a Wingspan-esque game but this time…

Need a board game suggestion for those who love things like The Godfather, Sopranos and other Mafioso inspired entertainment? Well look no further than Omertà: The Five Families! Vesuvius Media’s new mafia-themed board game, Omertà: The Five Families, funded within hours of its launch on Kickstarter! In Omertà: The Five Families, players step into the gritty underworld of 20th-century New York City. In this high-stakes game of power, players navigate the treacherous landscape as the head of a crime family,…

Raising Robots just recently fulfilled from Nauvoo Games and players are excitedly unboxing their copies and checking out all the great components inside. In this review, we are unboxing the deluxe version of the game which includes wooden tokens instead of cardboard, the Animals expansion and card sleeves. Is the production worth the price? Let’s take a look! GamesReviews paid the production cost of the game plus shipping the game to Canada to do this review? Big thanks to Nauvoo…

Big Boss is a classic strategy board game that has been translated into English for the first time ever! This game has a very unique concept and caught my interest from the start. Let’s open it up and look at what is included in the box!

A constant source of family fun, board games have always provided an excellent way to get two or more people around the table and sit them down for games of wit, strategy, and fun. However, as our entertainment takes on an increasingly digital nature, it feels like board games are falling by the wayside for many. That said, the rise and dominance of video games doesn’t mean that board games can be abandoned, especially when so many of them end…

Apiary is one of the more interesting titles to come from Stonemaier Games in my opinion. All Stonemaier products are fantastic, but something about Apiary had me really excited to get it out of the box the second it arrived. Let’s take a look at what comes in the box! There is a bit of punching required before your first game, but the pieces punch really easily and also have fantastic places for storage in the awesome insert included in…

Maul Peak is giving me video games vibes, and I’m not sure why. It might be the concept of taking down a big monster, who knows. What I do know, however, is that I’m terrible at the game, but that doesn’t stop me from really enjoying it each time it comes to the table. As a follow-up to Shulk Hollow (and they can be combined) it’s doing a lot of interesting and different things to make a second journey down…

Recently, Fantasy Flight Game sent over two of their Living Card Games (LCGs), Marvel Champions and Lord of the Rings: The Card Game. While both fit into that LCG space, they are both very different experiences. We have already written about Marvel Champions in our first impressions article here , but I wanted to get my first impressions of Lord of the Rings up as quickly as possible. For many, myself included, you might assume that most Living Card Games…