31 Mar 2016

Steamforged Games announce a Dark Souls Board Game

Steamforged Games announce a Dark Souls Board Game

Update: We played the Dark Souls board game at Salute - check out our preview here.

Hot off the heels of the announcement a couple of weeks ago that Eric Lang and Cool Mini or Not will be creating a Bloodbourne card game, Steamforged games have just announced via their Facebook page that they are working with Namco Bandai on a Dark Souls board game.

Polyhedron Collider Cast Episode 3: Blokus, Portal, TIME Stories, D&D and Miniatures in Board Games

The Polyhedron Collider Podcast Episode 2

The Polyhedron Collider chaps crack open a beer and discuss Blokus, Portal the Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game, TIME Stories, Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition and miniatures in board game and Andy trying to remember a teacher's name.

30 Mar 2016

Raid and Trade Review

Raid & Trade board game review

When the apocalypse arrives us gamers are going to be very prepared. Whether it's fighting zombies or curing diseases we'll have played enough games set in the post-apocalyptic wasteland that we'll know exactly what to do and Raid and Trade is another game that can train you up for the worst.

Set in the remains of a once great city, you will venture forth from a central base, raiding dwellings, gathering junk and crafting items in a hope to gain entry into the Golden City. It's kind of like a board game version of Fallout 4 but without the 50s Americana.

25 Mar 2016

10 Reasons Why You Need to be at the UK Games Expo

UK Games Expo 2016

Tickets for the UK Games Expo 2016 are on sale and if you're a UK gamer you need to be there. The UK Games Expo is the UK's largest gaming convention and covers all aspects of table top gaming, its chock full of card games, board games, miniature games and loads of role playing games.  Top publishers from around the world rub shoulders with home-grown gaming talent and you never know what you're going to find.

If you're still uncertain here are 10 more reasons why you need to be there.

21 Mar 2016

Piratoons Review

Piratoons board game review

There are two kinds of pirates; the yo-ho-ho, bottle of rum cartoon pirates and the real life murderous thieves. Thankfully Piratoons is well into the cartoon version as you compete with other pirates to make the best possible pirate ship.

Piratoons is an auction and set collection game, you will have a short auction over a limited number of ship components and then at the end of the game you will score points based on a number of criteria; such as biggest ship, most sales, prettiest ship and collecting full sets of crew, canons and cabins.

16 Mar 2016

Cool Mini Or Not Announce Bloodborne the Board Game

cool mini or not bloodborne board game news

Update: Added a link to Erig Lang's Twitter where he made the announcement.

Original article: At the time of writing this article I am 30 hours into the Bloodborne video game. 30 hours of despair, swearing and nearly throwing my controller at the TV. 30 hours of fighting beasts and barely surviving fights with an electrified werewolf the size of a house. And I have enjoyed every minute so I am really excited that Cool Mini or Not and Eric Lang have announced a Bloodborne board game.

13 Mar 2016

Battle for Sularia Interview

Battle for Sularia Interview

Jesse Bergman and John Kimmel join me over Skype a chat about their Kickstarted customisable card game Battle for Sularia, where they talk about their history in gaming, the development process for the game and future plans.

12 Mar 2016

T.I.M.E Stories: A Prophecy of Dragons Review

T.I.M.E Stories: A Prophecy of Dragons Review

A Prophecy of Dragons is the second expansion, and therefore third adventure module for T.I.M.E Stories, and while T.I.M.E Stories remains one of my favourite games of 2015 and one of the best cooperative game experiences to date, A Prophecy of Dragons is by far the worst adventure for the system and its approach to rules and story threaten to undo all the great work accomplished by Asylum and The Marcy Case.

I will try and keep this review as spoiler free as possible; however some mild spoilers will come out in the discussion.

10 Mar 2016

FAITH The Sci-Fi RPG Interview

FAITH The Sci-Fi RPG Interview

You may remember last year I spoke to Spanish game developer Burning Games, the team behind FAITH The Sci-Fi RPG. At the time they were just embarking on their Kickstarter journey but now the games is complete and in players’ hands and now Burning Games are looking to Kickstarter again to create the first wave of expansions, so it was time to have another chat with Carlos Gómez Quintana from Burning Games about the current state of FAITH.

7 Mar 2016

Polyhedron Collider Cast Episode 2: The UK Games Expo, Viticulture, Raid & Trade and WKD

The Polyhedron Collider Podcast Episode 2

Once again Jon talks about Munchkin and Talisman, Andy tries to show off his sommelier skills with Viticulture and Steve talks about ruling The Seven Kingdoms in A Game of Thrones the board game. We also talk about the UK Games Expo and an in depth discussion about which flavour of WKD is best.