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Battlelands: Aftermath Edition is a card game that pits players against each other in a series of battles that will determine the outcome of a post-apocalyptic war. Players must manage their resources from battle to battle, choosing when to…

There are a ton of game jams happening online at any point during the year. Many of these jams follow a theme and a timeframe, giving developers the challenge of creating a game within a specific jam’s restrictions. I record loads of these…

With so much praise lavished on the first two games and such a simple game concept to work with, I couldn’t imagine how Azul: Summer Pavilion could possibly have improved on the first two games, yet somehow, it has. After all, just a…

Children of Zodiarcs is a turn-based, strategic JRPG in which the player must manage a hand of cards and a fistful of dice for each character they control, blending the worlds of video and traditional board gaming.

You're Spawn 99, AKA The Grim Reaper, working for Fate themselves. Your job in Death and Taxes is simple, decide which people in awful situations don't quite make it through. Placehodler Gamerworks' presskit says that Death and Taxes has…

Blubber Busters is an odd take on the story of Pinocchio and Monstro, but a welcome tail, regardless.

At its most basic AVICII Invector is like a cross between Guitar Hero and Amplitude, with you moving your ship left and right on a track to line up with a button that you then press in time to the music. Then there are sections that are…

In a giant floating city made of giant lanterns, Zig makes their way through folding cities and twisted alleyways — exploring the city of mortals and djinn — to try and find the 30 birds. I don't know about you, but sometimes I look at art…

Once again, a Jackbox Party Pack has a couple of outstanding games and a couple of weaker ones. The handful of great games kept us entertained quite nicely, and the more disappointing ones were simply ignored after a couple of rounds.

When it comes to choosing board games that fit Big Boss Battle and what I think our readers are interested in, I always look for bright, accessible games that have deep, competitive hooks to grab the players attention. Following a second…

Warhammer Quest II — The End Times is the provocatively named sequel to, erm, Warhammer Quest and much like the board game it is based upon, it presents a combat-focused  dungeon crawling experience with light RPG elements. Sounds good…

Co-operative gaming has been getting a renaissance of late, but Tick Tock: A Tale for Two takes local co-operative and applies it to the puzzle genre in a fantastic way. Same screen gaming has been making a massive comeback over the last…

An old school 3D Platformer adventure, told by an old guy chatting to his kid. How delightfully meta!

Crimson Company is a small box card game that centres around wagering cash and recruiting troops in order to secure control of two out of three central castles. The version you see in these pictures is the Deluxe Edition which features…

It all starts when a falling cat doesn't land on their feet. There are not many people out there who would have wanted Fluffy dead, but it's up to Inspector Waffles to figure out who is responsible for the murder. Inspector Waffles is a…

Dawn of Man is an ambitious and relatively serious simulation about the earliest stages of the development of humankind that is an unusual fit for consoles. Despite its muddy colours and slow gameplay, however, there’s an addictiveness to…

Following the death of her grandfather, Crowns and Pawns' Milda is expected to embrace her newly discovered family secret and embark on a dangerous quest to uncover the story of 'the king who was never crowned'. There are dozens of types…

The hand painted auto runner which isn't quite a masterwork.

The New Year may be a blurry memory, and Halloween is just a vague shadow in the distant future, but that doesn’t stop the spookiness from flowing and a good ghost story from being told. Although far from spine chilling, this cutesy, spooky…

One of my favourite games on show last year at Pax, Operation Armstrong is an amazing asymmetric stealth/haxor game where one person in a VR headset is an elite secret agent sneaking through a robot infested moon base to complete your…