Fame for deviant artist Oddeh as their rather good Skyrim Monopoly mockup does the rounds among gamer and geek blogs. Does it make you want to play Monopoly or Skyrim though? Either way you might like to check out Tommy Filth’s Mass Effect Monopoly too. What about the BioShock Monopoly? A bit too late, I’m […]
Fantasy Flight’s Petersen apologies for Mansions of Madness ballsup
It takes guts to step forward and say sorry. It takes twice as much guts to do so when you’re embarrassed about your mistake. So kudos to Christian Petersen the CEO of Fantasy Flight Games. Mansions of Madness is an expansion for Forbidden Alchemy and it had serious playability issues. In other words it snuck […]
Free to Download: Dark Eon Assassin comic
Mongoose Publishing have a new game on the way. It’ll be a solo boardgame and called Dark Eon Assassin: Tyrant of Acheron. A solo boardgame is an interesting idea. Something to do while you’re waiting for gamers to arrive or when you can’t sleep at night. In the game you’re a genetically bred assassin – […]
Star Wars: R2-D2 Operation game
Remember playing Operation? It’s one of those games we played as kids. It’s one of those games we mixed alcohol with as adults and found it was twice as fun. It seems Hasbro might be trying to up the game even further. ToyWiz will be doing brisk trade this week after the interwebs noticed they […]
Wizards announce Dungeons & Dragons: Conquest of Nerath
Wizards of the Coast have shared more information about the forthcoming Conquest of Nerath. If link doesn’t work for you – it’ll be because you’re being redirected to the Amazon UK site which doesn’t yet have the game. I hope this doesn’t point towards distributive issues for WoTC. This is a big issue for Wizards […]
Fan made TRON Light Cycle board game and models
What did you think of the new Light Cycles in Tron: Legacy? Was it wrong to see them with curved light lines? Certainly the classic, corner-now-or-die, Light Cycles are famous and truly Tron. Little wonder that geek natives around the world fancy having access to a Light Cycle game. Step forward KingTemp, smoked acrylic, some […]
TSR’s DragonStrike video – 30 mins of D&D cheese
This video dates back to 1993 when TSR had created the board game DragonStrike. You’ll be familiar with the strategy here; TSR wanted to lower the bar for Dungeons and Dragons, making it easier to play to attract a wider audience. For this video they took 90s style special effects and 80s style writing to […]
Fantasy Flight Games re-imagines DungeonQuest
Gaming behemoth Fantasy Flight Games have announced their re-imagined version of the famous board game; DungeonQuest. The original DungeonQuest is Swedish. It was published back in 1985 under the name “Drakborgen” or Dragon Fortress. By 1987 it had been picked up by Games Workshop, translated and known as DungeonQuest. When Fantasy Flight Games picked up […]
The Time Wars – Doctor Who board game
This looks interesting. Forbidden Planet have posted a Doctor Who: The Time Wars family board game to their website. It’s on pre-order and its expected to be in the warehouse by July 25th of this year. Not only is this an 11th Doctor Who game, with the illustrations depicting Matt Smith and Karen Gillian but […]
Phantasy Realm the board game
Game: Phantasy Realm the board game Publisher: Rainsford Series: Phantasy Realm Reviewer: Eisel Review Dated: 12th, March 2003 Reviewer’s Rating: 9/10  [ Something special ] Total Score: 10 Average Score: 5.00 At long last, the day arrived! The mailman was knocking at my door, with my copy of Phantasy Realm – okay, the wait […]
