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Hidden Object Game Review: Undiscovered World: The Incan Sun

What is life if it is not a big adventure? In the Undiscovered World: The Incan Sun, our hero has crashed his plane on a not so remote area once inhabited by the Incans. The first thing our hero does is find objects scattered about his plane in true hidden object game style. It is [...]

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Race For The Galaxy Card Game Review

In Race for the Galaxy, players build huge galactic civilizations using game cards that represent worlds or technical and social developments. Be the most powerful civilization by developing new technologies, exploring and settling new worlds, and producing and trading resources. Time is limited and it is a race to see which civilization achieves dominance the [...]

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Race for the Galaxy: The Brink of War Card Game Review

The Imperium and the Rebels have been battling each other for control over the galaxy, but things are about to get even more messy in Race for the Galaxy: The Brink of War. In addition, the Alien departure point has been found, and the Uplift Overseers are starting to get restless. In these troubled times [...]

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Dominion: Alchemy Card Game Review

The award-winning card game Dominion is back with another expansion called Dominion: Alchemy. A new resource type – potions – is added to the mix, and your battles against fellow land-grabbing monarchs has just become more complicated. With the power of Alchemy in your hands, you are now able to access new powers such as [...]

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Travel Board Games Are the Perfect Travel Companion

For children of all ages, some of the longest hours of their youth can be experienced while driving down the highway headed towards a destination that seems to be moving further away the longer you drive towards it. In times like this, it seems like there is no relief in sight. Pulling over to eat [...]

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Classic Board Games – Chess Sets

You are sitting quietly, staring down at a board that contains 64 squares, 32 of one color, and 32 of another. You have 16 items on the board in front of you that have been fashioned into 6 very unique figures. You play just one opponent and they too have their own army of 16. [...]

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Dominion: Intrigue Card Game Review

The world of Dominion is about to get way darker and more sinister in Dominion: Intrigue, the first standalone expansion for the hit card game that took the world by storm. Mingle with shady conspirators, torturers and swindlers. Meet your contacts in the secret chamber or the shanty town. Make sure everyone knows who’s in [...]

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Dart Board Games

The most common dart board design is that of a clock which is circular in shape, has a circle inscribed on it with twenty segments with the numbers one to twenty mentioned on them in a random fashion which actually has an underlying pattern. The bull’s eye is the small black circle in the centre. The two [...]

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Dominion: Seaside Card Game Review

It’s been a long time coming, but your Dominion has finally expanded to reach the ocean shore in Dominion: Seaside, an expansion for the hit card game. There’s plenty of territory beyond the shore though, with islands and native villages ripe for the picking. So recruit explorers, navigators, merchant ships and ambassadors. Confront pirates, deal [...]

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Backgammon Gambling Goes Back to the Very Origins of the Board Game

When we think of the subject of backgammon gambling the first thing that comes to mind today is usually the exciting tournaments hosted by a range of Internet backgammon sites. However, it seems likely that the association between the backgammon game and gambling probably goes back to the origins of backgammon thousands of years ago. [...]

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