Received a few emails asking if something was up with the site and the answer is no. I’ve been very busy with work and the holidays. I’m also working on some site tweaks which is taking time away from writing. However that is about to change as I have a stack of new games to [...]
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A Return to the Future with Fantasy Flight’s New Fortress America!
December 16th, 2011 
admin It’s not every day that a tweet about board games makes you do a triple take, but when I saw this from FF today I was simply rocked and shocked: “It is the near future, and the U.S. is threatened on all sides by a global coalition. Can Fortress America survive?
Tags: D-Day Dice Kickstarter winds down.
December 7th, 2011 Dan Spezzano With under 37 hours left this is your last chance to get in on the most successful kick starter campaign for a board game I have ever seen. I’m in at the $75 level but for $35 you can get in and get a lot of free goodies. If your new to kick starter it’s basically a [...]
Cosmic Alliance expansion for Cosmic Encounters
December 7th, 2011 Dan Spezzano There is no stopping the expansion train that is FFG. This new expansion for Cosmic Encounter adds 20 new races which brings the total up to….well I don’t know let’s call is a “bunch”. It also adds a team game. I really enjoy Cosmic Encounters, not enough to own it but I enjoy it. This [...]
Forbidden Alchemy preview at FFG
December 6th, 2011 Dan Spezzano FFG is busy churning out the news mill with a preview of their upcoming expansion for Mansions of Madness. The original game was one I was very excited for at the time but haven’t played much since. In fact my own copy has never been played. Chris has gotten the print and play expansions perhaps [...]
Khazad-Dum news
December 6th, 2011 Dan Spezzano FFG recently posted a new preview for the first big box expansion for the Lord of the Rings Card game. I haven’t said much about this game since we did our original review. The adventure packs have made the game a lot more robust and it really is an enjoyable single or two player game [...]
Cryptozoic announced WOW Deck Builder
December 6th, 2011 Dan Spezzano Cryptozoic has decided to get in on the deck building action with the announcement of Clash of Champions a World of Warcraft themed deck builder. The PR after the jump.
Gaming with the Wife Volume 2 – Battletech
November 29th, 2011 Dan Spezzano Over thanksgiving as I was recovering from leg surgery I was going through my Battletech 25th anniversary boxed set. A friend of mine and I are going to start playing a little Battletech once a month. I was never into the game a a kid even though it was very popular during my prime gaming years. My [...]
Band of Brothers Impressions
November 23rd, 2011 Dan Spezzano I’m not ready to review BOB yet as I haven’t gotten to any of the vehicle or larger scenarios yet. However I am a CC fanboy. I own everything ever put out of CC:E and CC:P including the new Resistance expansion that is staring me in the face as I type this with shrink wrap [...]
On the mend
November 21st, 2011 Dan Spezzano I type this from my trusty iPad while lying in bed. I had surgery on my leg last Friday and I was hoping for a really fast recovery but it looks like I’ll be taking it easy for at least the rest of this week. It’s mainly the reason the content has been on a [...]
Emergency Situation
November 11th, 2011 Dan Spezzano Sorry for the complete lack of posts this week but I’ve had something come up that needed attention. I plan to work on a lot of items this weekend so next week should be extra busy with content. I appreciate how many people visit our site on a daily basis it is really gratifying so [...]
Monday Messenger
November 7th, 2011 Dan Spezzano As we head into the holiday season the game releases are going to start to pick up again which means a lot of gaming and writing for me. Unfortunately most of my staff has been a little light on covering items as of late but I can’t yell at them since they don’t get paid. [...]
Drizzt Unboxing Video
October 26th, 2011 Dan Spezzano D&D Adventure fans around the world were excited last week when the Legend of Drizzt was released. I’m about halfway through the 13 included scenarios, truth be told I have played some of them multiple times and I’m enjoying the game. In this video we take a look at the game and some of it’s [...]
Slow week
October 18th, 2011 Dan Spezzano We have some reviews in process and I hope to get them posted this week. The Legend of Drizzt launched today and according to the UPS guy mine will be here tomorrow. I’ll be doing an unboxing video and review quickly on that one. I was told I should be expecting copies of Mage Knight [...]
Silence is not great
October 2nd, 2011 Dan Spezzano Well everyone sorry for the silence last week. I was on a family Disney Cruise which I highly recommend. Having been on a few cruise lines before no one does it like Disney. If you want to be spoiled silly for a week you should look into it. I had schedule several things to post [...]