The Great Con Heist

We recently traveled to Dexcon, an annual five-day convention in Morristown, NJ, where we played all sorts of games, and definitely drank all kinds of beers, but prominent among them was one of each that we decided to use for this week’s special-edition Game & Beer Pairing, straight from Dexcon 19. For months we’ve been hearing, … Read more…

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Oh, it’s Forbidden? Let’s Do it Anyway.

Forbidden Island has become such a classic in our eyes that it’s hard to believe it came out only six years ago. The mechanics are unique, the art is beautiful, and the game requires some serious strategizing and cooperation. Like Catan or Ticket to Ride, Forbidden Island is just one of those games that every … Read more…

Let’s Play Good Cop/Bad Cop/Drunk Cop

This week, the veteran gamer of our group, Tom, invited us over to play Police Precinct by Common Man Games. So naturally we grabbed a cop-themed beer and headed over to make an impromptu Game & Beer Pairing of it. In Police Precinct, players are cops trying to solve a murder before the killer can escape. But … Read more…

We Can Be Heroes… Just for One Dungeon

We’re still kind of reeling from our session of Dungeon Fighter. It was simultaneously one of the most raucous, humorous, and frustrating games we’ve ever played. But holy fun, Batman! For this week’s Game & Beer Pairing, we partnered Victory’s Mad King’s Weiss with a game that one of our group members, Mike, brought over for us … Read more…

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…