A Bitter, Superpowered Rivalry

One of our favorite gateway games is Sentinels of the Multiverse, a cooperative card game filled with tons of heroes, villains, environments, and other cool stuff. We’ve used it to turn several people to the side of gaming with great success. Then the guys over at Greater Than Games decided to put out a new … Read more…

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Getting Smashed (Up) with Smash Up

What happens when you take every trope in gaming, from pirates and zombies to aliens and wizards, throw them together in a box, and declare all-out war? Unlikely alliances are forged and the fight gets brutal. In Smash-Up, from AEG, each faction has its own deck of twenty cards. Each player chooses two factions, shuffles them … Read more…

Drinking on the Job

A game doesn’t always have to be sci-fi, fantasy, or some alternate reality to be fun. Sometimes a game can parody, ridicule or downright imitate some aspect of ordinary life and still be pretty awesome. Case in point: This week we played You’re Fired!, a part-deduction, part-hand management game that lampoons the world of corporate … Read more…

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…

Buildin’ Like Bob Vila and Drunken Spelunkin’

It’s no secret—we love Kickstarter. It has frequently afforded us the opportunity to find some really great games and get an in-depth look that we might not otherwise get while perusing a game store shelf or Amazon. If we’re being honest, sometimes these games are not so great. And sometimes they’re so good that afterwards … Read more…