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High School Drama: The Game (Varsity Edition)
High School Drama Overview: Are you hot or not? High School Drama takes the high school clique and turns it into a game. Players: 2 to 5 Age: 13 and up (More for theme than gameplay) Retail: $12.50...
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Thunderstone Advance Is a Big Leap Forward
Overview: Since the initial release of Thunderstone, AEG has published expansions for the deck-building dungeon-crawling card game at a feverish pace. (In fact, there have been two more expansions...
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Catching Up on Thunderstone: Thornwood Siege and Heart of Doom
While you’re eagerly awaiting the arrival of Thunderstone Advance, I’ll catch you up on the last two expansions from the original series. These both came last summer, when I was in the middle of a...
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Thunderstone Advance Available Today!
Just a reminder: Thunderstone Advance hits shelves today! If you read my review and pre-ordered the game at a Level Up preview event last week, you’ll be getting the Avatars mini-expansion. If not,...
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Kickstarter Alert: Woe to the Living
Overview: Trevor Cram, the guy behind Super Showdown, has another game on Kickstarter. Titled Woe to the Living, it’s a pocket-sized game about haunting victims and settings, and it doubles as a...
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First Look at Nightfall on iOS
Nightfall, the aggressive deck-building game full of vampires and werewolves, is coming to iOS soon from Playdek, the folks who also worked on the app versions of Ascension and Food Fight. I liked the...
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CPU Wars Is a Nostalgia Trip Wrapped in a Card Game
My first computer was a Commodore SX-64 ‘luggable’ computer with an integrated 5″ screen and a MOS 6510 CPU. It was magic, and a wave of nostalgia sweeps over me whenever I see a Commodore Basic...
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Toppers: A Homebrew Game Giving Life to Old Baseball Cards
In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, according to Tennyson. By middle age, those thoughts expand to include things like baseball and cleaning the garage. For some geeks,...
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Blurble: 300 Nouns in a Box
Okay, Blurble is more than just 300 nouns in a box, but that is part of the fun. Let me fill you in a bit. Grant Bernard invented Blurble years ago and played it with his friends, and now he's raising ...
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They’re Baaaaack! Eaten by Zombies: In Cahoots
On my list of Best Board Games of 2011, I gave Eaten by Zombies an honorable mention, for combining two of my favorite flavors: deck-building and zombies. The original game looks great and does a great...
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Pick Your Battles in Summoner Wars
In just a few short weeks, Summoner Wars will be arriving for iOS, as you can see in the preview trailer above. But this tactical combat card game has actually been around for a few years, spawning a...
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Kickstarter Alert: Goblins Drool, Fairies Rule
Some goblins have popped into our world through a fairy ring, and you need to send them back - using rhymes! Goblins Drool, Fairies Rule is a kid-friendly card game with some fantastic illustrations of...
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Ahoy, Scallywags, Give Us Yer Loot
Avast, me hearties! We've got our pile of booty and now we have to divvy it up — but we're pirates, after all. Who wants to be fair? Scallywags is a quick-playing family game of "pirates and...
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Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters Spoiler Card
Do you know Kaijudo? No? Well if you are into Trading Card Games, then you need to know Kaijudo - the newest franchise from Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro.
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Robots, Pirates, Dinosaurs and More Collide in Smash Up
Robots, pirates, dinosaurs, wizards, and more! Pick two factions, smash them together, and then attempt to take over the world. Smash Up ("The Shufflebuilding Game of Total Awesomeness") launched at...
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Epic Spell Wars: Hilarious Fun, But Not for Kids
Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre is a world of radical magic and over-the-top, head-a'splodin' incantations. The goal is to be the last wizard standing ... twice, because...
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Duple Is a Challenging Variation on Anomia
I love trying out new variations of games that I already enjoy. I recently learned that the makers of Anomia created a new game called Duple. It has a very similar gameplay to the original, with an...
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Revolver 2 Is a Rich, Fun Western Card Game
Revolver 2: Last Stand at Malpaso is a two-player card game that plays out like a Western flick. Except in this case the bad guys might win.
View ArticleToy Fair Offers a Look at 2013′s Upcoming Board & Card Games
If this post-Toy Fair preview is any indication, 2013 is going to be another very strong year for board and card games. Here are 30 exciting new or upcoming games to keep your table busy.
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GeekDad Review: Guildhall
It's the Dark Ages, and you're itching for progress. So you've set up a guildhall to attract professionals — and so has everyone else. Collect enough professionals to complete chapters, which score you...
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