Flashpoint: Fire Rescue
To write Flashpoin: Fire Rescue off as a Pandemic clone, or a Forbidden Island clone, is to miss the point. While both of those games and this share elements – controlling the environment through...
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Crossing Over To The Deadzone
Deadzone is an upcoming board game from Mantic Games. There are four things you need to know about Deadzone: First – it has a terrible, terrible name, I’m guessing an overexcited 8 year old came up...
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Kicking The Habit
There’s been something of a buzz about Kickstarter the past 6 months or so. It’s gone from relatively unknown “oh that weird crowd funding thing?” to a staple topic of conversation among geeks. So much...
View ArticleZombie Dice
Pffft. Zombies! Again! And in a dice game. What can you even do with zombies in a dice game that’s interesting? Why would anyone play this, a light weight Steve Jackson game that is neither in depth...
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Pimp My Game – Part 1 – Card Sleeves
I’ve always had a tendency to want to enhance and modify my games. Way back in the mists of time when I had Advanced Heroquest as a kid, I remember making little torn scraps of paper with clues or maps...
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The Descent of Man
Descent: Journeys In The Dark has pretty much become the defacto dungeon crawl, usurping Games Workshop “classics” such as HeroQuest when gamers think of the genre. I’m a self confessed dungeon crawl...
View ArticlePathfinder: Rise Of The Runelords impressions
During this year’s visit to the UK Game Expo I had two titles I absolutely wanted to pick up – Legendary: Marvel and Pathfinder ACG. I’d pre-ordered Pathfinder from Gameslore for pickup, and it...
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Game night
Did some gaming with Steve and Johnny again last night. First up was Lost Legacy: The Flying Garden. It’d be easy to summarise this as a more in depth, tactical Love Letter. What it loses in simplicity...
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Warhammer Quest
Here’s the thing; if Warhammer Quest were released today, with all its main systems and rules unchanged but absolutely clarified, it would be rightly buried. As soon as you stop to actually look at...
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Frostgrave
It might be my imagination but skirmish games seem to be the ‘in-thing’ at the moment. Understandable given that so few people have the time/money/energy to pour into a massed battle game, requiring...
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