When my wargaming friends and I have gotten deeper into our drinks, our conversation steers towards the limits of d6 based rules systems for tabletop wargaming. I was reminded of this at GenCon upon seeing a demo set up for…
Year: 2018
Blending Digital and Physical: Dire Wolf at GenCon
While at GenCon I was able to speak with Matt Hudson from Dire Wolf Digital. It was the company’s second year at the convention and we focused on their digital and physical strategy, specifically looking at two of their more…
Movie Trailers that are Better than the Actual Films
Movie Trailers are an art form to themselves. They are short films designed to put butts in seats when it comes time to sell tickets. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that at times there are trailers that are themselves…
Bee Lives: An Impression That’s Just Buzzing Around The Corner
It Lives! It Lives! Rise now, my minion, and wreck terror upon the masses with your fearsome stinger… Wait. What do you mean that ‘Lives’ is a noun here? Indeed, this is not a game regarding the resurrection of bees…
Impression and Review of Inoka by XYZ Games
Inoka is a tarot sized card game played with 2-4 people centered around a rock, paper, scissors mechanic. The game was created by XYZ Games Labs, an indie Chicago based games company. Their first game was RobotLab, successfully funded on…
Pazaak at Gen Con: A taste of KotOR
Fifteen years ago Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR to use the shorthand) was an instant hit, and as the intervening years have shown, an instant classic. Awash in the sea of games that is Gen Con there was a…
Maiden’s Quest: She Got Tired of Waiting – Game Review
Maiden’s Quest is a 1 to 2 person (per box) deck building game themed around a Maiden and a Captor. The Maiden (the player), fed up with waiting for rescue, is trying to escape their captor and to do so…
Quick look at OverBattle: the All War
If you ever played Axis & Allies and thought something was missing, Syther Gaming agrees and brings OverBattle: the All War to GenCon 2018. OverBattle takes the static map and turns field creation into part of the conflict. A new…
Discovery Brought a Bit of the Terran Empire to Vegas
Creation’s Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas happened last week, with a full Terran Empire makeover. Part of that makeover is the Star Trek Discovery exhibit, which puts on full display the full glory of the Mirror Universe arc from…
Priority One Distress Call: The Battle for the Dignity and Estate of Nichelle Nichols
In 2013, Nichelle Nichols sat in front of a camera with one of her best friends and told her story. In these videos, a series of videos each around twenty five minutes in length, Nichols talks about her life at…