All posts by Chris Hecox

Narcos: Rise of the Cartels is a video-game adaptation of the Netflix series in the style of XCOM and other similar turn-based strategy games.

Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus is a D&D sourcebook that provides an adventure through the Nine Hells. Check out our review!

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a brand-new platform adventure from some of the key creative talent behind 'Donkey Kong Country'. As the colourful buddy duo you must tackle a series of stunning, 2.5D levels and explore a puzzling 3D Overworld [...]

Chris takes a look back at GenCon 2019 and offers insight on how to enjoy GenCon to the fullest. Tabletop gaming has never been so big!

Live the life of a mechanic as your work your way through a client list and serve your customers by fixing up their engines and wheels!

Swab the deck and ready your swords, it's high seas adventures and shanty-town mysteries on the horizon! This is Dungeons and Dragons: Ghosts of Saltmarsh.

Backlog Golf is a great way to break through your ever-growing backlog of games. Learn how to play and challenge your friends to the ultimate game of golf!

Terraria, the 2D survival crafting platformer comes to the Nintendo Switch. Portable mining and monster slaying has never been better!

Wildlands is an incredible production and has lots of variability to keep things interesting. This continues the stunning catalog of Osprey Games releases.

Designers: Martin Wallace (Brass: Birmingham and Brass: Lancashire) Gavan Brown (Brass Birmingham), Matt Tolman (Brass Birmingham) Artists: Lina Cossette, Damien Mammoliti, Peter Dennis, David Forest, Eckhard Freytag Publisher: Roxley Games Category: [...]

Designers: Hal Duncan, Ruth Veevers Artist: Kwanchai Moriya Publisher: Osprey Games Category: Deduction Players: 3-5 Price: $24.81 Amazon Cryptid is a zoological hunt featuring 3-5 players as cryptozoologists, seeking some sort of mysterious [...]

Designer: Reiner Knizia Artist: Kevin Hong Publisher: Osprey Games Category: Abstract Strategy Players: 2-6 Price: $24.95 Amazon Sakura is one of over 600 board games Reiner Knizia has designed. Knizia has a PhD in mathematics and previously worked in the [...]

Designer: Stefan Feld Artist: Dennis Lohausen Publisher: Tasty Minstrel Games Category: Ancient, Mythology Players: 2-4 Price: $38.82 Amazon Oracle of Delphi is a 2-4 player game published by Tasty Minstrel games and designed by Stefan Feld. Tasty [...]

Designer: Michael Rieneck Artist: Michael Menzel Publisher: KOSMOS Category: Dice, Novel-based, Religious, Renaissance Players: 2-4 Price: $34.50 Amazon A Column of Fire is an adaptation of the third novel in Ken Follett’s “Kingsbridge” [...]

Designers: Stefan Feld, Christoph Toussaint Artists: Julien Delval, Harald Lieske Publisher: Alea Category: City Building, Dice, Economic, Medieval, Territory Building Players: 1-5 Price: $22.79 Amazon The Castles of Burgundy: The Dice Game is the third [...]