I took a short trip out of town with my wife and the baby this weekend and in a game store I happened across this small book sitting by the counter. I flipped through it briefly and the cashier gave me a nod and told me that she really enjoyed it herself, it was a [...]

Diggity
Plankton Games – Dave Dobson
2-4 Players
Ages 12+
~30 Minutes
Overview
Diggity is a strategic card game in which each player takes turns placing cards down on the table to create a single contiguous Mine (in somewhat of a “Water Works” fashion.) each room in the mine has a symbol, or shape on it. By playing Mine rooms near [...]

When I was but a wee lad, sometime in the early 90’s there was a new store that opened up in my hometown called Phar-Mor. It was not unlike your average Walgreens or CVS; a pharmacy with some essential grocery type goods. But Phar-Mor was something special. They had Nintendo rentals for 39 cents [...]

Good morning everybody, sorry for the late post but I hope everyone had a good Memorial Day weekend!
I played a fun little game over the weekend that captured my attention long enough for me to play all the way through it, so it makes a perfect review for today. It’s a flash game called [...]

Hamlet! A game in five acts
Interactivities Ink – Mike Young
3-8 Players
Ages 12+
45+ Minutes
Overview
Imagine for a moment if William Shakespeare never existed, and during what would have been his time, most things were written as they are today, by a team of disagreeable writers working against each other as much as possible. Each one knows how [...]

CHAOS ISLE – Zombi Deck
1-6 Players
~20 mins per player
Reviewed by Endymian – WWW.GAMERSUNIVERSITY.COM
Chaos Isle is an expandable card game from a small independent game company called Realms Masters Game Forge, it is subtitled “Zombi Deck” (presumably due to future themes) and it set in an apocalyptic world where Dr. Zycheck’s mad Zombi experiments have gone [...]

Welp, I would love to be posting a video of us playing the Starcraft 2 beta today, but I am still waiting my key from Blizzcon to be activated. Suffice it to say, I am disappointed…I thought it would be quicker than this for the Blizzcon key holders.
But, it doesn’t do me any good to [...]

Foresight Games
Ages 12+
~30 Mins
2-6 Players
Overview
Quick Six is a fast-paced dice game where, at it’s core, the objective is to roll 6 of a kind (while saving matching dice) in as few rolls as possible. Unlike most other Dice games, like Yahtzee, Quick Six is played with eight-sided dice, which adds to the [...]

Hey everybody. Sorry if you ran into any errors trying to get here earlier this morning apparently Dreamhost found themselves to be under an attack of some kind, and shut down their servers until they could assess the threat…or something.
Anyway, I had the pleasure of playing two new games last week, and while I spend [...]

Wait, what?
Wired apparently declared Starcraft 2 “Vaporware” in their 2009 survey, stating that too many people demanded it be included in the list. Apparently their “overwhelming demand” is a special ed classroom. “Vaporware” means that there is doubt whether the game will actually *ever* be released (look it up.) I.E. the kind of thing you [...]