Goin’ Hog-Wild with Pork Chopper

For this week’s Game & Beer Pairing, we chose a game that holds a special place on our shelf. We got to see Hogger Logger develop in various ways over a period of about two years before it successfully Kickstartered in 2014. We’ve come to call the designers friends (and even got a private close-up magic … Read more…

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The Apocalypse is Here! We’ll Drink to That

Zombicide (noun) – The deliberate and totally righteous killing of the undead, preferably en masse, with a variety of weapons, including but not limited to chainsaws, shotguns, crowbars, pistols, frying pans, and sometimes, a double-barreled sawed-off with a machete lashed to it. If you haven’t guessed, for this week’s Game & Beer Pairing we played Zombicide … Read more…

Placate the Masses with Bliss and Beer

As both avid gamers and designers, we try to maintain that all games are created equal—yet there’s something magical about the products that Stonemaier Games puts out that leaves us shaking our heads in mild astonishment. For this week’s Game & Beer Pairing, we played Euphoria, a game about faction managers of a dystopian society vying … Read more…

Kill Your Whole Family… and Laugh About It

All you game designers out there, listen up; you can take a lesson or two from this week’s Game & Beer Pairing. This time around, we played Gloom by Atlas Games. In Gloom, each player controls a family of dour souls bent on dying in the most tragic ways possible. For example, one of the families … Read more…