It’s not hard to understand that when a company publishes the same type of games successfully over a number of years, you come to expect a certain thing from them. When we play a game by Academy Games, we expect it to have authentic historical facts embedded into the game play. Any title by Genius Games should be deeply rooted in science, no ...
If you asked me what game I would never buy new or at thrift, I would probably answer with “Tic-Tac-Toe”. I mean, why bother paying good money for something that can be played with a pencil and paper? Yet Amazon is full of different versions for those who can’t be bothered to search for a good old #2 and some scratch paper. Yet he ...
It’s my job as a parent to protect my children from the evils of the outside world. Whether it’s the harsh reality that we call today’s news or language that young ears shouldn’t hear, we have always been careful about what we expose them to. Sheltering them until the time was right to gradually let information leak out and ...
With all of the board games we play as a family, you’d think our girls have little time to do anything else. That isn’t the case – they’re not only involved with sports like cross-country, they both participate in band and the local symphony either after school or on the weekends. Toss in private lessons and a little bit of ...
If you’re like us and play board games regularly, you know that there is a big difference between games that last 20 minutes and those that take a couple hours to complete. We enjoy both and do what most others do – play a couple short games, then a long one, and then wrap up the evening with another short game or two. Think of the shor ...
