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Flames engulf your family home, you must don your flame-retardant outerwear and dash back into the smouldering ruin to rescue your board...

A while back I reviewed King of Tokyo and I sang it praises, declaring it to be a firm favourite, “a great filler and a perfect family...

When Blood Bowl was announced as a new deck building game, way back in the mists of time, I was excited to play it. Firstly because I...

This is going to be my first of two reviews of Descent, focusing entirely on the mechanics of the game and the differences between first...

A couple of months ago I went out and bought myself a nice Android Tablet. Primarily I was sick of carrying around my massive 17” laptop...

Unlike most gamers I’ve never really played “Richard Garfield’s other game”, Magic: The Gathering. Although I did own a starter set of...

Fans of this blog will know that I’m reasonably invested in the fantasy realm of Terrinoth, created by the guys over at Fantasy Flight,...

In the following review I will be talking about the Summoner Wars system rather than any specific decks. A while back Plaid Hat games had...

This review is for Descent 1st Edition, if you wish to see a review for Descent 2nd Edition click here. Interestingly enough I find both...

Designed by the power house of games that is Reiner Knizia way back in the year 2000, a time filled with excitement as cinemas began to...

An evil Lich Lord is terrorising the Kingdom, only a fighter, wizard, rogue and cleric have any chance of stopping him and to do so they...

As some of you know, I have a little brother with Worster Drought Syndrome, a condition that severely affects his speech, as well as...

Last week I had the pleasure of coming home from a long day at work to find a priority mail package from the US lying on my bed....

Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It… Dungeon is plain and simply a dungeon crawl. Pick a character, go in, grab the loot and get...

A while back some of you may remember I reviewed 3rd edition, you may also remember that I had played the game to death and was rather...

Stone Age was my first worker placement game, it’s produced by Hans Im Glück/Rio Grande Games and it is possibly the most beautiful game...

This week we’re talking about Fantasy Flight’s Silver Line games and that brings me to this week’s review Red November. I first read...

I always assumed that Space Crusade was the same game as Heroquest, but set in space, I was wrong! I also assumed it was to Space Hulk,...

It is said that 70% of the profits made by SJG come from the sales of Munchkin related products and of all the games I’ve review thus far...

Fantasy Adventure So I bought Runebound because I love fantasy, in particular D&D, but most of the fantasy boardgames we own are from my...