Inoka is a tarot sized card game played with 2-4 people centered around a rock, paper, scissors mechanic. The game was created by XYZ Games Labs, an indie Chicago based games company. Their first game was RobotLab, successfully funded on…
Category: Table Top Games
Pazaak at Gen Con: A taste of KotOR
Fifteen years ago Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR to use the shorthand) was an instant hit, and as the intervening years have shown, an instant classic. Awash in the sea of games that is Gen Con there was a…
Maiden’s Quest: She Got Tired of Waiting – Game Review
Maiden’s Quest is a 1 to 2 person (per box) deck building game themed around a Maiden and a Captor. The Maiden (the player), fed up with waiting for rescue, is trying to escape their captor and to do so…
Quick look at OverBattle: the All War
If you ever played Axis & Allies and thought something was missing, Syther Gaming agrees and brings OverBattle: the All War to GenCon 2018. OverBattle takes the static map and turns field creation into part of the conflict. A new…
Europa Universalis returns to tabletop with new Paradox project
Europa Universalis, the grand strategy video game by Paradox, is currently in development as a tabletop board game. The Paradox team demoed a round of play, introducing the nations, settings, and options currently in development for the game. The proposed…
Star Trek Galactic Enterprises Will Satisfy Your Inner Ferengi
Rule of Acquisition number 21 “Never Place Friendship above Profit.” Wizkid’s latest foray into the world of Star Trek, pits you and up to eight of your friends in a no holds barred quest to hoard the most latinum possible…
In Defense of Dice
Twitter, in its infinite crowd sourced wisdom, floated this piece across my metaphorical desk several weeks ago, The “Superstitious Mumbo Jumbo” Of Dice Rolling. It’s a Neil Degrasse Tyson-esque read of people having fun with their dice rolling habits and…
DropMix: Musical Shenanigans
Hello, Dear Readers! Have you found your life musically lacking? Do you enjoy musical mashup mixes? Have you ever wondered, what exactly does Sia’s Chandelier vocals sound like when backed up by the bass line from LMFAO’s Sexy And I…
Kill The Unicorns: A Preview
Have you ever wondered why you have never seen a unicorn? Clearly, it isn’t for some mundane reason such as unicorns never existing. Instead, the answer could only be, because they’ve been hunted to extinction! Fear not though! You too…
Best board games under $50 for the holidays
So it’s that time of year again. You’ve have to sit down and find the perfect gift for your lovely nerd family member. You know they’re into dragons or lightsabers and board games, but you don’t have the first idea…