Rebellion, developer of the bestselling tactical shooter Sniper Elite franchise, has just announced an expansion into tabletop game development with their brand new board game division, Rebellion Unplugged. Befittingly, the first game from the studio will be Sniper Elite the Board Game.
For our fellow Rick and Morty fans out there, Cryptozoic Entertainment and Cartoon Network Enterprises has a treat for you. They have just announced their Rick and Morty tabletop game The Ricks Must Be Crazy Multiverse Game, coming out on May 30th!
Snow days, and even regular school holidays can be tough when it’s just too cold to tell the kids to go play outside. Coming out of Christmas vacation and my family’s first annual Tabletop Gaming Championship, I know from personal experience that there’s only so many rounds of Uno and Sorry that one can go through before taking to the internet to see if there’s any family g...[Read More]
Within the past five years or so, there has been a renaissance in the tabletop gaming world. With the rise of Kickstarter and other crowd-source funding options, hundreds of game concepts are finally finding players and publication. Phoenix Covenant is one such game, given life through Kickstarter. Most are describing it as Magic: The Gathering meets Final Fantasy Tactics. How does this unique spi...[Read More]
Surprise, Deadly Premonition is getting a board game adaptation!
I love board games probably as much as I love video games. There is something magical about sitting at a table with all of your friends, rolling dice, playing cards, and laughing as a rascally panda eats the bamboo you’ve been trying so hard to grow. Well, that got pretty specific pretty fast. Let me tell you about Takenoko.
There’s a great knock-knock joke that I like to tell every now and then. It goes a little something…like this: “Knock-knock. Who’s there? Banana. Banana who? Knock-knock…etc.” This continues until the teller decides to change it from “Banana” to “Orange,” and the punchline changes to “Orange you glad I didn’t say banana again?...[Read More]