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Matt is B3's resident Head of Board Games. As a life-long fan of all things gaming he'll also occasionally be found covering video games with the team,
With the number of strategy games hitting Nintendo’s incredible Switch platform recently, you’d be forgiven for missing some of the more obscure entries into the market. Shiro Games Northgard is most certainly not to be missed however, and…
Robotech: Ace Pilot — Dice blast
There are lots of dice based minigames emerging in the market, but few of them carry the same level of interest as those with big licenses. Robotech: Ace Pilot is a brand new “small footprint” game from Japanime Games, who recently…
Futuropia — The future is fairly bright
Generic looking Euro-American people are shown on the box of Friedemann Friese’s Futuropia, they dance awkwardly at an almost empty discoteque, relax on beaches and enjoy open fires with their friends. This is because they have achieved…
Age of Wonders: Planetfall — Golden Age
With deep and meaningful strategy games making the leap onto consoles in unprecedented numbers recently, players have never been so spoilt for choice. Even so, relatively few strategy games have the same grand ambitions as Age of Wonders:…
Time of Legends: Destinies — Arc de Triomphe?
Hot on the heels of recent Kickstarter blockbuster Time of Legends: Joan of Arc reaching its fulfilment date, Time of Legends: Destinies is a brand new, joint venture between veteran publishers Mythic Realms and augmented reality experts,…
Valeria: Card Kingdoms (with expansions) — a land of plenty
Valeria: Card Kingdoms is a one to five player game about tableau and engine building in the name of the kingdom, which is being ravaged by threats from all sides. Our review includes content from the base game, as well as the Flames and…
Gloomhaven — Gather Your Party
When it comes to modern board games there are few as iconic as Gloomhaven. Weighing in at over 10 kilos of physical mass, and boasting one of the largest boxes you could imagine, it’s also the one game that is perhaps most suited to a…
GreedFall — Is all that glitters Gold?
Focus Home Interactive are well known for adopting developers with a penchant for creating games that are a little rough around the edges, but which have enough about them to warrant seeing the light of day, that a bigger publisher might…
Boss Monster — Desktop dungeoneering
If you enjoy retro, 8-bit platform games and you’re on the lookout for a fast paced, unusual card game, then Boss Monster might be right up your street. It combines classic pixel art with the unique concept of having players act in the…
Get Me a Fresh Brain — A real Frankenstein!
It’s not often that you’ll find a board game with a theme as unusual and potentially divisive as Get Me a Fresh Brain, but this B-Movie themed pick up and deliver game packs a lot into a small box and offers players a competitive head to…