The tagline for Babble (Cactus Game Design, 2005 - no designer credited) says, "A fast paced, Bible based, outrageously fun game!" Since Cactus Games has put...
There are children's books that are good, and then there are children's books that are classics. I Spy books are keepers, ones that will be gazed upon in...
(I'm assuming that the readers already know how to play Return of the Heroes.) Return of the Heroes is one of the best board role-playing games I have ever...
This campaign is about Human beings, Democracy, UNHCR, Refugees, The Iraqis, Islam, Kurds, Human rights, Respect, Money, Donations, Angelina Jolie, Pavarotti,...
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Episode # 40 of the Dice Tower has been posted! ...
My initial impressions of Agora Barcelona (Brabander, 2005 - Jep Ferret and Oriol Comas) were high. I mean, a box full of "meeples" (small wooden people)...
Most people know about the smash hit that the puzzle Sudoku has become over the past year. It's in many major newspapers; several people I know have become...
I read the rules for Glory to Rome (Cambridge Games Factory, 2005 - Ed Carter and Carl Chudyk) and had no idea of how the game worked. I played through about...
There's not a lot to say about Colour Magic (Math Magic Sdn Bhd, 2000 - Jimmy Yeoh and Paul Godding), so this review will be fairly short. In fact, the game is...
I'm not sure why I don't like checkers. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that despite my pride in my "strategic superiority" over my wife, she...
As a Christian, I'm often rather disheartened by the serious lack of good, solid games with a Biblical theme. Most of them are either a cheap rip off of a...
Sometimes, when I initially read the rules for a game, I get very excited, because there are mechanics in the rules that sound simply fascinating and fun....
I try to go into every game with at least reasonable expectations, but I must admit that my initial impressions of What Will You Think of Next? (Enterfection...
When I mentioned QQchess (Mozo Edutainment Technology, 2005 - Lewis Lim Ee Hee) on my podcast, the Dice Tower, my co-host Joe Steadman made a disparaging...
I told my wife that I was almost to the point where I could teach geometry simply from the box shapes that I have. Gaudi (Casa Consultors, 2002 - Jep Ferret...
Ray Smith, designer, publisher, and writer, was the target of my latest interview... http://www.thedicetower.com/interviews/int095.htm Tom Vasel "Real men play...
A new interview with Nick Medinger, in which we talk about www.funagaingames.com http://www.thedicetower.com/interviews/int094.htm Tom Vasel "Real men play...
I've posted my latest interview with Chad Jensen, designer of Combat Commander. http://www.thedicetower.com/interviews/int093.htm Tom Vasel "Real men play...
I'm used to getting games from independent publishers in anything from a plastic bag to a video case to a plastic snap box. Darter (Future Magic Games, 2004...
Let me start off by saying that I don't think I'm the target audience for Wild Side (Out of the Box Publishing, 2004 - Brian S. Spence, Garrett J. Donner, and...
Dear Board Gamers, I apologize for the intrusion but I think this may be of interest to those who dabble in miniatures. Our local Heroclix Envoy Mike Pitcher...
I had seen Pair-of-Dice games in GAMES magazine over the past few years and had never given them much thought - other than to think that using dice as pieces...
After my very positive impressions of Pair-of-Dice games Marvin Marvel's Marvelous Marble Machine and Warp 6, I had high impressions of games made by the...
Dear Mech Warrior gamers, This is it! This is the big weekend for the Mech Warrior National Qualifier, to be held this Saturday (18 March 2006) at the Bus ...
http://www.boardgamenews.com/index.php/boardgamenews/comments/the_dice_tower_episode_41_top_ten_underrated_games/ Show # 41 has been posted (with a bit of "p"...
Episode # 42 of the Dice Tower has been posted! http://www.boardgamenews.com/index.php/boardgamenews/comments/the_dice_tower_episode_42_top_ten_1999_games/ In...
There are many games that I have seen people talking about long before they are released, but none so much as Command and Colors: Ancients (GMT Games, 2006 -...
