Jess: Ohaiyo gozahiimas everybody!
There’s exciting news on the feudal Japan board game front! Fantasy Flight is reprinting Reiner Knizia’s Samurai. The area control game for 2-4 players has everyone competing as daimyo to control Japan through lesser lords, peasants, religious leaders, and of course, Samurai. Continue reading
Rob: Today we’re going to be protecting the Earth from an alien invasion in XCOM: The Board Game – a cooperative strategy/push your luck game for 1 to 4 players from designer Eric M. Lang and publisher Fantasy Flight Games and is inspired by on one of our favorite video game franchises ever.
We’re most likely going to fail horribly, so I’d like to take a moment to welcome our new alien overlords and preemptively thank them for not turning me into one of those freaky green frozen sludge people-statues. You know the ones I’m talking about.
The world’s safety is in your hands. Don’t screw it up.
Jess: 2015 is here and there are a ton of new games coming out soon. Check out Pictomania, Game of Thrones Card Game 2nd Ed., Area 1851,and Munchkin Gloom.
December is here and like Ned Stark says: “Christmas is coming…” That was the quote, right? Anyway, ‘Tis the season and we’ve got three exciting looking up-and-comers. Check out The Witcher Board Game, Last Night on Earth Airstrike Supplement, and the Kickstarter for New Bedford.
Visit the Valley in Android: Netrunner’s new expansion, Scandal hits the Ticket to Ride Championship, one man with a plan makes a Castlevania board game worth drooling over, and check out the release of a fun little pub game, Pairs.
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