Digital board games can be a mixed bag, as it can be difficult to capture what makes a board game so compelling when you cannot see the faces of players sitting around the table beside you. However, some board games are now designed to specifically take advantage of the digital…
Read More“Mellow greetings, what seems to be your Boggle?” a guard quips to Wesley Snipes. Wesley responds by asking the guard how much he weighs before throwing him through a glass cabinet. At times while playing Boggle for the PlayStation 4, I felt like the guard, other times, I felt like…
Read MoreI love board games, from classics such as Monopoly and Risk to newer ones that release each and every year. Of the older games out there, Scrabble ranks among one of my favourites. It probably comes as no surprise that I enjoy writing and I like to think that my…
Read MoreI love board games. I spend a lot of time playing them, and then spend a lot of time playing digital board games. My iPad, especially, has such a range of board games on it that I don’t even need friends any more (but seriously, friends, don’t leave me!). Related…
Read MoreReiner Knizia is a masterful board game designer, and his games make for excellent video game adaptations as well. I still play titles such as Samurai and Through the Desert today on my iPad, years after I downloaded them for the first time. And there’s a Kickstarter that has been…
Read MoreNintendo’s Amiibos have always been worthy collectibles, if for no other reason than the company seems committed to manufacturing scarcity so that not every fan will be able to find their favourite miniatures. But to date they have been complete misfires in terms of adding anything to the gameplay experience…
Read MoreAfter the first competent, but otherwise unremarkable take on Monopoly, Ubisoft has continued its new partnership with Hasbro with a new edition of Risk. This classic strategy board game is arguably a more timeless formula than the one about making money, but it is still a game that has aged,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I think Ubisoft has done everything it can to accurately encapsulate Monopoly in digital form. Since picking up the license from EA earlier in the year Ubisoft has taken the opportunity to kickstart the new partnership with Hasbro by releasing a very down-the-line take on the…
Read MoreReview by Owen S. Chess is a revered game-called-sport, with a place in culture is perhaps unmatched by any other pastime. Champions and ‘grandmasters’ are revered for their intellect. Names such as Bobby Fisher inspire images of greatness. It seeps through popular culture, from characters like Leonard and Sheldon on…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Having the audacity to try and come up with a sequel to the (literally) ancient game of chess takes gonads. And yet that is exactly what David Sirlin is doing with the straightforwardly-named Chess 2. Sirlin might not be a name that is instantly recognisable, but…
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