Raise your hand if you know someone who has taken up baking and cooking during the pandemic. There have been a couple times that Scott and I left to run errands only to return to the house smelling of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. T ...
We have a very good friend who is a regular part of our gaming circle. If you ask her what her favorite type of game is, she would not reply with a mechanic like dice-rolling, abstract or engine-building. She would proudly exclaim that she ...
As concerns surrounding the Coronavirus continue to grow, travel advisories have been going out discouraging people from attending festivals, considering a cruise and flying anywhere. While it’s generally a somber time, this is the ti ...
There’s a famous quote, often attributed to Einstein, that says “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” Each year, as the clock ticks down to Gen Con ...
Lately we’ve covered games about trees, plants (Herbaceous Sprouts & Herbalism) and birds (Wingspan & Songbirds). These nature-inspired games are all the rage and there is no end in sight for titles featuring th ...
It’s June! And while many are celebrating the end of another school year and the beginning of summer vacation, at our house we’re celebrating another season – game convention season! We’ve already spent four exhausti ...
One of the first sci-fi television shows we got hooked on, other than any of the Star Trek series, was Sliders. A young Jerry O’Connell and one of our favorite actors, John Rhys-Davies, traveled through a portal to visit an alternate ...
How many times have you sat down to play a game, only to have it run WAY longer than the advertised time? I’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve scheduled a game that is supposed to run 2-3 hours, only to have it stretch i ...
