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Middle-Earth Quest

Andy Vetromile — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:00:05 +0000

Middle-Earth Quest is the latest in a long line of games that let fans participate in Tolkien-based adventures, though this is a little different. There’s still a Sauron player intent on conquering everything, but everyone else portrays second-string heroes, cinematic extras who fill in the setting’s historical blanks by forestalling the villain’s ascendancy until the [...]

Tara

Jonathan Holmberg — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:00:10 +0000

Tara, developed by Murray Heasman and distributed by Tailten Games, is an abstract strategy game inspired by the Book of Kells. Players place red and blue “ring forts” onto the board, and link them together with bridges. By the end of any given game, the board looks more like a piece of Celtic [...]

Once Upon A Time

Steve Darlington — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000

When people ask me what my favorite game is, I don’t have to think very hard. For me, a good game is like a photo album: full of memories. When you look at it, you remember all the people you enjoyed it with, and all those wonderful times you had. Plenty of good games do [...]

EVE: Conquests

Steve Darlington — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:00:48 +0000

As anyone who’s read a banner ad on a geek site probably knows, EVE Online is a grass-roots Massively Multiplayer Online RPG where players save their pennies to outfit starships and conquer the galaxy, though they do the latter more through trade and mercenary dealings than blowing things up. It’s more Traveller than Star Wars, [...]

GUBS

Steve Darlington — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:00:50 +0000

Does setting matter? Many of our tactical, abstracted Euro-gamer friends would disagree. They have a point: Settlers of Catan would be the same if it was about settling a new planet, but had exactly the same mechanics. But on the other hand, would chess be as popular today if instead of imitating warfare, the pieces [...]

Race for the Galaxy: Rebel vs. Imperium

Gerald Cameron — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:27:55 +0000

Race for the Galaxy: Rebel vs. Imperium is the second expansion for Rio Grande Games‘ hit card game of science fiction exploration and conquest. Rebel vs. Imperium comes shortly (about nine months) on the heels of the first expansion, The Gathering Storm. This time you get 46 new game cards; a set of role cards [...]

Star Wars: The Essential Atlas

Ken Newquist — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:00:09 +0000

Star Wars: The Essential Atlas is a softcover, coffee-table-style book that covers every Star Wars era from the pre-Republic days of the alien and powerful Celestials (who constructed the Corellia system) through the Sith Empire depicted in Dark Horse’s Legacy Era comic books. It offers maps of every major sector of the galaxy, historical and [...]

Chrononauts: The Gore Years

Brian Thomas Clements — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:12 +0000

Chrononauts: The Gore Years is an expansion to the card game of time-traveling paradoxes, grand larceny and general tomfoolery, Chrononauts. The wonderful hippies at Looney Labs have updated their popular card game to include major events from the past decade. As with the original game, players take turns changing history at will by [...]

The Day After Ragnarok

Wayne Humfleet — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:52:44 +0000

The death of Patton ushered in chaos, as the Third Reich used ancient rituals to awaken the Midgard Serpent, and signaled the beginning of Ragnarok from Norse mythology. Americans, not about to be put down by a giant, world-encircling serpent, fly the Trinity Device into its mouth, instantly killing it. The massive body falls to [...]

Trail of Cthulhu

Wayne Humfleet — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:00:55 +0000

Trail of Cthulhu is a role playing game of Lovecraftian Horror by Kenneth Hite and published by Pelgrane Press, based on the classic Call of Cthulhu role-playing game by Chaosium. Players take the role of investigators, hunting down hidden truths and Elder Gods in the world of H.P. Lovecraft, while slowly going insane or dying [...]