Open the Pokemon Battle Academy board game and you’ll be whisked back to childhood. Designed as an entry-point to the Pokemon Trading Card Game, it’s crammed with nostalgia for a hobby that’s been going strong since 1996. However, I don’t know if it’s ever been this accessible. That’s because Pokemon …
Read More »The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms preview
In Skyrim, bards sing about mighty heroes and deeds from long ago. They wouldn’t spend long on my adventurers from The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms, though. I’d like to say I was doing well in the tabletop wargame (complete with models, armies, and monsters), but that’d be a lie. …
Read More »Minecraft becomes a board game this fall with Minecraft: Builders and Biomes
Essential info (Image credit: Ravensburger, Mojang) Players: 2-4 Time to play: 30-60 mins Price: $39.99 (opens in new tab) Released: November 15 2019 (US) Made by: Ravensburger There are times when you can’t help but wonder why on Earth something hasn’t been done yet. Despite the wealth of Minecraft games we’ve received and …
Read More »A Hyper Light Drifter tabletop RPG is on the way, and its pixel art perfection
If you think we’ve seen everything when it comes to dungeon-delving, you’ve clearly not encountered Hyper Light Drifter’s very-good-boy dog warriors. The pixel art adventure game made waves when it launched back in 2016, and now the team behind it have turned their sights to a tabletop RPG set in …
Read More »Like XCOM: Enemy Unknown? Try the board game Pandemic!
The only thing more soul crushing than losing all your best soldiers in XCOM: Enemy Unknown (which we praised in our review), is when all of the nations you’ve sworn to protect go into panic mode and abandon the project all together. The result? The XCOM organization, starved for resources, …
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