Timeline is a simple little game that we’ve been playing of late. The core game (now more accurately referred to as Timeline: Inventions) comes with 110 cards that depict inventions throughout human history. The cards have a picture of the invention on both sides and its name. On just one side of the card you’ll […]
The word “hanabi” is Japanese for “fireworks”. It also happens to be a highly original card game that I absolutely love. Hanabi is a co-operative card game for 2 to 5 players ages 8 and up. I found it works best with 3 or 4 players. It generally takes less than 30 minutes to play. […]
Days of Wonder (DoW) is preparing to ship a follow-up to its highly-regarded Shadows Over Camelot board game. This time around the designers have taken the original in for a tune-up and reduced it down to a sleek, easily approachable card game aptly named Shadows Over Camelot: The Card Game. For those unfamiliar with the industry […]
Earlier in the summer I reviewed a favorite new game of mine called Cards Against Humanity. The game is quite something else and absolutely not for everyone. I just wanted to put up a quick note to any other fans of the game out there that their Second Expansion (yes, there was a first) has […]
Microsoft, as a huge company, is no different than any other company in that they’re going to have more than their fair share of good trends and bad trends. Right now it seems they can’t do much of anything right. Their mobile OS is loved by the few who find it useful and despised (or […]
Anyone that knows me knows that I’m an avid gamer including a board/card gamer and that I’m always interested in drawing friends, family or anyone else into the fray. The latest focus of my interest is a new game called Cards Against Humanity. It’s got such an ominous sound to it and it’s perfectly named. […]
When it comes to board gaming I’ve been at it a long time. The same is true for my sports-based gaming. I go back to card-based sports gaming including old classics like APBA Baseball, Cadaco’s All-Star Baseball, Strat-O-Matic Baseball, Sports Illustrated’s Statis Pro Baseball and several others covering basketball, auto racing, boxing and more (including […]
Can K2 make it to the summit? While perusing a list of new and popular board games on one of my favorite board game marketplace sites (gamesurplus.com) my eye caught a title I wasn’t at all familiar with called K2. K2, for those that aren’t familiar with it, is the second tallest mountain in the […]
I’ll never forget the fervor I encountered at a major game convention when Guitar Hero was first shown. The software developer, Harmonix, was known for a few mildly successful products and had coupled with RedOctane, a peripherals company, to produce the title. The booth I first encountered was RedOctane’s so it was, of course loaded […]
MTV and Harmonix, the makers of the highly successful game series Rock Band, have finally figured out the biggest reality in their market segment—that is that they were the biggest logjam to taking this concept to the stratosphere. In my post of just over a year ago called, It’s Time For A New Music Standard, […]
Today there’s a headline in Kotaku (a popular gaming site) entitled, “In Defense of the Classic Controller“. The story is about the demise of the classic gaming joystick/controller due directly to the popularity of Nintendo‘s Wii console. It’s so popular that both Sony and Microsoft are moving to similar, or even more advanced, designs taking […]
Okay, I’ve had enough of this one…. This past Easter I was at a family member’s house and we all had a blast playing Rock Band. I mentioned it to a few people today, and how much fun we had, and got into another in a long list of debates with people (musicians mainly) who […]