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…
Jason Isaacs’s and William Shatner’s Feud Continues at STLV
Jason Isaacs and William Shatner are back at it again. During Isaacs’s first ever panel at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, he opened his mouth and almost immediately regretted it. He started off his panel, which was just…
What We Know About “What We Left Behind”
At the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention the team behind the Deep Space Nine documentary, What We Left Behind, dropped more concrete information about their long gestating project as it heads to a wide release. For those who don’t know, What…
Patrick Stewart to Reprise His Role as Jean-Luc Picard
In a huge surprise for fans at Star Trek Las Vegas, it was announced by Alex Kurtzman and Patrick Stewart that “Jean-Luc Picard is Back.” So far, details are slim. He know that, per Stewart, “There are no scripts, we…