Sometimes you don’t want an hour-long game with lots of decision trees and strategic options. If you want a game that requires split-second reflexes and causes your fellow gamers to twitch when you yell “SEVEN!!” then you need to try Jerk.
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Table for Two is a series focusing on two-player games. Today’s game is Strife: Legacy of the Eternals, a compact card game about battling for control of locations using your team of Champions. It has great artwork, surprising strategic depth, and perfect information.
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It’s no secret that I’m a sucker for zombies. But, hey, apparently so are lots of other gamers. There are tons of zombie-themed games (Last Night on Earth was one of my first and still one of my favorites) and more coming all the time. Here are just a few that I saw at Gen Con this year that I think are worth mentioning.
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I’ve been using the same messenger bag for years now, with a larger backpack for things like conventions. For my trip to Gen Con this year, I got to try a new bag: the Moleskine myCloud backpack.
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Flip Flash is quick to learn and play, and seems like the kind of card game my family will enjoy having around during get-togethers. It doesn’t require a huge time investment, can be played by a skill-diverse group, and allows for hanging out and chatting without an intense focus on strategy.
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The first event I went to at Gen Con this year was the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. Although I’d played a prototype demo at GameStorm earlier this year, I was excited to see the finished product. I also wanted to check out Paizo’s new Pathfinder Society Adventure Card Guild.
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Salem is, as everyone knows, overrun with witches. So you, fine upstanding citizens that you are, have decided the best solution is to leave and found a new town named, naturally, New Salem. Players try to build their town free from the despair caused by witches. The bad news? Some witches might be hiding in your midst.
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In space, nobody can hear you shuffle.
This year, Upper Deck expanded its Legendary line of semi-cooperative deck-building games into the Alien universe. Legendary Encounters lets you experience the first four movies as a game, or you can mix and match characters, locations, and objectives for customized scenarios.
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If you’ve been waiting for a tabletop aerial combat game that includes more shimmering scales and fewer S-foils — more actual fire power than, you know, “firepower” — you’ll probably be interested in WizKids’ Dungeons & Dragons – Attack Wing, set for release next month. I had a chance to play a short demo at this year’s Gen Con, and it sure seems like fun.
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Kickstarter-funded board games had a huge presence at Gen Con this year. Here’s a look at Kickstarter and Gen Con.
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Let’s face it: we don’t like each other. But there’s this Big Bad to defeat, so we’re forced to share troops in this war. That doesn’t mean I’m gonna let you just boss me around, though—everyone knows my soldiers and scouts are the best, you just wait and see. Welcome to Warband: Against the Darkness.
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I mentioned Machi Koro in our “best of Gen Con” post, and it’s quickly become a family favorite. Here’s a little more about the game.
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Calliope Games is a GeekDad favorite—I first met Ray Wehrs at PAX Prime several years ago, and since then it’s become a tradition to make a trip to the Calliope booth at the beginning of a convention (and sometimes also at the end). This year at Gen Con, Wehrs made several announcements about some things that Calliope has in store.
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I scheduled a trio of role-playing sessions for my trip to Gen Con this year: a custom Firefly adventure, Monte Cook Games’ “Into the Violet Vale,” a Numenera convention event, and a one-hour Dungeons & Dragons encounter, “Defiance in Phlan.” The Shiny: Firefly This was my introduction to Margaret Weis Productions’ Cortex Plus System, as […]
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I already mentioned several ongoing Kickstarter projects that I checked out during Gen Con, and now I’ve got a slew of games I saw in some form that are coming to Kickstarter later—some are launching any day now, and some may still be six months out, but these are games that you’ll want to watch for.
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One of my favorite games from last year’s Gen Con was Space Cadets: Dice Duel, a real-time team-vs.-team shootout between two spaceships. You’re moving your ship around the board, loading torpedoes, energizing shields, setting target locks and jamming your opponent’s locks… all while rolling dice frantically. This year at Gen Con, Stronghold Games released an expansion: Die Fighter.
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You know how much I love Kickstarter board games, and Gen Con was a great opportunity to sit down and play a lot of prototypes with designers and publishers. Some are on Kickstarter now, and some will be launching later this year (or even next year). I’m sure there are plenty that I missed, but here’s a quick run-through of the current and upcoming Kickstarter games I saw last weekend.
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Before Gen Con, we posted a list of some of the things we were most looking forward to at the con—but reality doesn’t always match our expectations. Here’s a quick follow-up on some of the things from our list.
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Another Gen Con is in the books. We have lots of games to be telling you about in the days and weeks to come, but here are just a handful of the things that really caught our eyes this past weekend.
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True Dungeon, the interactive role-playing experience that, for many, is the cornerstone of Gen Con, returned again this year with four new experiences to challenge, thrill, and frustrate gamers. How did we do? What did we think? Read on to get our impressions and opinions.
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Obsidian Entertainment, known for Fallout: New Vegas among other games, is partnering with Paizo to make an app version of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game.
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When Twitter feeds started filling up with #GenCon2014, some gamers who weren’t attending the convention started their own hashtag: #GenCant2014.
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One of the best things about going to a big gaming convention is, of course, all the cool new games you get to try out (and buy). And another is fun events that are made possible by large groups of people in one place. Here are some of the things we’re looking forward to at Gen Con this year.
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