Board Games News

There have been a ton of Pokemon and Digimon knock off experiences over the past few decades. Many of them get the idea right and produce a great games, while others fall flat. This idea has also transferred to board and card games, although as I’ve said many times before, collectible card games that launch on Kickstarter (the general place a new CCG launches) is pretty risky, and oftentimes a scam. The team behind Aethermon had a new idea –…

Board games based on video game IPs has generally been a pretty bad idea, but lately companies have been getting the experience just right. When the Kickstarter campaign for The Witcher: Old World ran last year, add me to the group of folks sceptical that the game would be any good. After seeing it at a trade event put on by Asmodee Canada, I was instantly intrigued. Last week, the standard retail version of the game arrived, and I was…

When Fantasy Flight Games announced that they would be releasing Marvel D.A.G.G.E.R. this summer, I was pretty excited about it. As a huge Marvel fan, a cooperative hero focused game was something I knew I was going to enjoy. Plus, it’s Fantasy Flight Games! There might be great miniatures in the box as well. After my copy arrived in the mail, I was half right, but that isn’t too big of a deal. Let’s hop into the box and see…

July is just around the corner, and we are getting our second wave of additional content for Star Wars: Shatterpoint. Coming out this month is the Plans and Preparations Squad Pack, the Jedi Hunters Squad Pack, and the You Can’t Run Dual Pack. Let’s dive into what you get with each expansion, and talk a bit about building these units! Plans and Preparations Squad Pack Primary: Jedi Master Luminara Unduli Secondary: Padawan Barriss Offee Supports: Republic Clone Commandos (x2) It…

Two player games are pretty hard to come by, so when they drop on my doorstep I always hope it will be a lot of fun. While I definitely had fun with Maul Peak, there are just a few things I wasn’t loving about the experience. Still, with easy to understand rules and a bit of variety in the Guardians you can play as, and I think this is still one of the better two player games in recent memory!…

This October, Lookout Games is launching a brand new game experience called Forest Shuffle. Forest Shuffle, a 2-5 player game where players are attempting to collect more trees than there opponents, is looking like it will have addicting gameplay and fantastic art. Love walking around in nature and checking out what the world has to offer? Forest Shuffle might give you that experience right on your home table! Forest Shuffle is designed by brilliant (and young!) Germany developer KOSCH, best…

I’ve been playing Star Wars: Shatterpoint for almost a month now, thanks to our friends at Atomic Mass Games and Asmodee Canada. Every time we get the game to the table, we really enjoy ourselves. The game is really, really good. Last night, while sipping on my decaf McCafe coffee – as I do at 35 years old – my father-in-law and I started discussing what we didn’t like about Shatterpoint. After all, all I’ve done for the past few…

There is a ton of variety already available for Star Wars: Shatterpoint, and I’m loving it. If you purchase the core box, you can have Ahsoka and Anakin Skywalker face off against Darth Maul and Asajj Ventres. If you opt to purchase some of the character packs, you can already add Count Dooku, Jango Fett, and the Magna Guards and Obiwan Kenobi, Commander Cody, and a few clone troopers. But with so many squads available, and having played them all,…

Today is finally the day – although we’ve had Shatterpoint for almost a month now, the game is finally releasing in stores across Canada and the United States. It won’t be long before the internet is flooded with fantastic – and likely not so fantastic – paint jobs, and I cannot wait. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been taking Shatterpoint for a spin, and have really been enjoying it . The systems work really well, and I love how…

Cooperative campaign and legacy games are kind of a hot commodity right now, and I can see why. When most folks purchase a board game for 50 or 60 dollars, they will obviously get a few plays out of it but then it might go away for a long time. People like to see their dollars stretched as far as possible, and play a game as long as possible. Ticket to Ride 12 times doesn’t actually sound like the most…