So one of the casualties of my new-found fatherhood has been my ability to easily round folks up to play games. People tend to like to congregate in the evening right around the time babies insist on going to bed. To make matters worse, I now have all this extra free time to read about […]
With babygeddon almost upon me, I have found it increasingly difficult to find the time to gather people and play games. There are just too many trips to Babies Я Us that need to take place and so I am left looking at a wall of board games and trying to figure out which ones will provide […]
Dear Nine year old Leeman, shut up, put down those Battle Beasts for five minutes and heed my tidings from the future. No, I’m not here to give you stock tips nor do I possess a dog-eared sports almanac but I do have wonders to share. You know that board game you inherited from your […]
“Mommy Mommy!” “What is it, little Andreas?” “I want to play a game!” “What kind of game, my darling?” “One where I can help develop the postal infrastructure of 16th century Bavaria!” “…” While such a conversation may or may not have taken place in the Seyfarth household, it should have because the end result […]
Since Bill Watterson coined the term “Calvinball” it has acted as a remarkable reference point for chaotic games where the rules constantly change and the players are kept on their toes. I have played a handful of games where planning was impossible and flexibility was the key to victory although the victory itself seemed so […]
I have a confession to make: I killed Neil Gaiman. Well, technically a robot killed Neil Gaiman with a giant laser but I still feel largely responsible. The whole affair has me really shaken up. I mean, it wasn’t just Colonel Gaiman; I lost Captain Pratchett, Lieutenant McMaster-Bujold, and my top Marksman, HP Lovecraft. They […]
Full disclosure: There is only one Hobbit movie and it was put together by Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass. That being said, Mr. Jackson has made a valiant attempt. While Martin Freeman is no Orson Bean, he does a remarkable job being ever so British and disarmingly charming. In fact, Mr. Freeman may have cranked […]
Dig, if you will, a picture of a mincing Mark Hamill, looking like Philip Seymour Hoffman in Boogie Nights, hammering chopsticks into someone’s leg. Hold that image in your mind and continue reading when you’re ready. Now let’s sit down and talk a little about Sushi Girl, a Dark Crime…Drama? Comedy? Thriller? It’s hard to […]
If you have a Steam account there is a good chance you may have noticed an odd, unbidden addition to your library in the cowled and grinning guise of Gotham City Impostors. It is a free to play, online-only, multi-player shooter that feels a lot like Team Fortress and other multi-player shooters and probably wouldn’t […]
My wife and I aren’t speaking right now. That’s mostly because she’s in the kitchen making flat bread but if it were due to an argument, the most likely root of it would be Settlers of Catan, which I find to be a charming game which has done wonders for popularizing Euro-style games to the North […]
There are few games where one can be applauded for creative use of cannibalism. This is probably a good thing for society as a whole. For the rest of us though, it’s a far better thing that we have games like MSU. The idea behind this clever card game is that each round there is […]
Once upon a time there was a board game called Talisman, but that’s a story for another day. The story today is about one of Talisman‘s Robert Baratheon-esque bastards, Runebound. The best way I can describe games like this is as analog World of Warcraft. Players run around a board taking turns killing monsters, collecting […]
Greetings Citizen! I hope you are enjoying the bounties of entertainment and personal satisfaction the Computer is granting you this day as the Computer does every day! All hail the Computer! Bless his Holy Mainframe! To take his glory for granted would be tantamount to treason and we wouldn’t want that, now would we? Not […]
One of the joys of going back and watching old episodes of Deep Space Nine is seeing Ronald Moore’s name in the opening credits and thinking, “Hey! I liked Battestar Galactica for a time!” This same thought is present as one plays the board game which has been stunningly crafted to create the same level […]
Something happened to me the other day that I…I feel I have to share or else it might haunt me the rest of my life. I was just perusing the ol’ internet, like you do, checking out some periodicals and sharing recipes with my gal pals when someone directed me to this one website and […]
So winter decided to bite back a few weeks ago and, in the midst of a relatively anaemic January, hit my city with enough snow to give one pause. Not to be dismayed, two of my friends braved the winter winds and arrived for what would be a couple of hours of Lovecraftian fun. The adventure board game […]
The Holidays are upon us and that means family and family means finding some way to keep ourselves busy so we don’t a) die of boredom during the awkward silences or b) say something incriminating and inflammatory during the gaps between the awkward silences. Thank the Maker we have handheld gaming devices that we pretend […]