Arizona Game Fair took place recently at the Mesa Convention Center, and I can’t even begin to tell you how awesome the convention was! Now in its third year, the con had over 1,200 attendees. That’s pretty fantastic! Convention founder Andrew Long said the first year had over 300 gamers and the second had 785. …
I initially was unsure if I was going to be able to attend the inaugural Dice Tower West convention due to the impending birth of my niece, but when I found out she wasn’t going to make an appearance until after the convention, I decided to make a quick stop to Las Vegas. I arrived …
This review of 1846: Race for the Midwest was featured on Episode 54 of The Five By. Check out the rest of the episode, which also features Otys, Wingspan, Lanterns: The Harvest Festival and Gizmos. If the world of 18xx is something you’ve been interested in but never knew where to start, check out 1846: …
I recently made a jump back into deck-building games, rediscovering old classics like Dominion and playing new favorites like Paperback. It’s not that I disliked deck builders, but rather games with other mechanisms would often hit the table first. For those unfamiliar, a deck-building game is a card game where construction of a deck is …
Happy New Year, friends! Can I still say Happy New Year when it’s clearly halfway through January? I had a lot of post-holiday personal events going on through last weekend so I haven’t had much time to game, but there’s lots of gaming ahead scheduled for the next few weeks. Woot! To get us started, …
When I started writing this post, I looked back at my 2017 list, and I had to laugh because I was so optimistic that 2018 would be less rage-inducing than 2017. This past year was still rage-inducing in regards to the outside world, but there definitely was plenty of moments of pure joy for me …
Holy forkballs! It’s December already! Where did November go? Man, it’s been a busy, fun, amazing few weeks, and now that I’ve had some to come up for air, let’s talk about all the gaming I did at BGG. This is my fifth consecutive BGG Con, and my fourth year volunteering for Team Geek. If …
This review of Lisboa was featured on Episode 46 of The Five By. Check out the rest of the episode, which also features Mr. Jack, Lords of Waterdeep, Apocrypha and KLASK. Lisboa is a game published by Eagle-Gryphon Games, designed by Vital Lacerda, with gorgeous artwork from Ian O’Toole. It plays 2-4 players, and …
This week is my blog anniversary! Happy four years to me! It was four years ago that I created my board-gaming alter ego and wrote my first post, and then a month after that, I went to my first BGG Con in 2014. The blog originally started because the guy I was dating noticed that …
Around the corner from downtown Tempe’s Mill Avenue and across the street from Arizona State University on Sixth Street, a new board-game cafe recently moved in: Snakes and Lattes. Snakes and Lattes is a board-game cafe chain from Toronto, Ontario, in Canada, and it has opened its first U.S. location in Arizona. Snakes and Lattes …