It’s Beaver Fever in Settlers Of Catanada
From CBC’s online comedy channel Punchline comes a cracking advert for the latest in board gaming hotness: Settlers of Catanada! Set in Canada, players race to build towns and cities in America’s northern cousin, collecting oil, wood, and of course beavers. OK, it’s a spoof but it’s a good one. I got a good giggle […]
A Game of Boards – Fantasy Flight’s GoT
In the wibbly-wobbly misty-wisty days of 2003, before your televisions had been thrown out of the window after the events of, well, [Insert Scene Here], Fantasy Flight Games made an adaptation of Game of Thrones. It was a strategy game, akin to Risk in some ways, but with a dozen layers of complexity, intrigue and […]
Board games suck! And here’s why…
OK, don’t let the post title fool you; I love board games. My collection is pretty massive, ranging from 5 minute card and dice games all the way to the epic 8 hour slug-a-thons with cool miniatures and card board tokens festooned across the table. So when I scroll through my social media feeds and […]
