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Unmatched as a series is based on a simple, perfect premise, one as old as humanity: Who would win in a fight? Throughout the six years the system has been available at retail, this two-to-four player dueling game has allowed players to throw together an impressively wide variety of characters,… Read more »

You’re likely to be familiar with deckbuilders, those games where you start with a small deck of cards and then work to increase the size—and, therefore, the abilities—of your deck. As for me, with 60 plays of Dominion listed at BoardGameGeek (and many more uncounted), it’s a mechanic I enjoy.… Read more »

“It’s like Ticket to Ride meets Get On Board meets Caesar’s Empire,” I said to our friends as we sat down to their first play of On the Underground.  I enjoy all three of those titles on one level or another. The game On the Underground: London / Berlin dropped… Read more »

[caption id="attachment_300059" align="alignright" width="300"] Stephan Michael Sechi. SMS to his friends.[/caption] Recently, I have been working on various passion projects. In that capacity, I am not only K. David Ladage, I am also ZiLa Games. While managing my online presence (be that the web page for my little imprint, the… Read more »

If you’re squinting at that title, wondering if you’ve missed something, you haven’t. In contemporary usage, “Courtesan,” with an “e,” refers to the women who exchanged sexual favors for influence back when royal courts were a thing. Courtisans, with an “i," is not about courtesans. A more accurate English-language title… Read more »

Delta - Justin Bell I picked up a review copy of Delta at SPIEL last year; our friend and former colleague Brody Sheard reviewed the game during the game’s crowdfunding campaign. Published by Game Brewer, Delta is a hand management game that tasks players working to discover the mysteries and… Read more »

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In Factory 42 you’ll play as a Dwarven Overseer, working in some kind of Steampunk-ish Soviet-era mines. Don’t think too hard about it because, to be honest, it really doesn’t matter. This is a straight-forward worker placement game, albeit one with an extra mechanic that is worth looking at. Since… Read more »

My Meeple Mountain colleague, Justin Bell, recently suggested there might be too many games coming out each year. If I am being honest, I think he has a point. As a gamer and as a content creator, it is tough to monitor an industry that publishes at an average rate… Read more »

The guys in my Wednesday gaming group started a push last year to play more of the old, dust-ridden games at the bottom and backs of our respective game closet shelves. The premise was simple: let’s try to remember why we keep all these old games when all we ever… Read more »