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Star Wars Zero Company: Top Ten Starter Tips for New Players
Star Wars: Zero Company is a fast, character‑driven tactics game that both looks fantastic and absolutely drips with Star Wars theme. It looks cinematic — and it absolutely is — but beneath the spectacle sits a classic, readable ruleset…
Wilderdark Makes You Part of the Ecosystem
Wilderdark drops you into the middle of an infected, dinosaur infested jungle, in search of the cure for the infection. However, to find that cure you'll need to have your wits about you as the infection has twisted and contorted both the…
Asmodee has loads to offer in its TCG lineup this Winter
I recently tried out a number of different TCG’s at Asmodee's Comic Con stalls and there was most certainly a lot on offer for players looking to try out a new TCG or stick with their gut and expand on what they already know and love.…
Commander SECRETS of Strixhaven – Three Commanders to Consider
The beauty of Commander is the variety of expression. When you can use any Legendary Creature as a Commander, surely you’ll never meet someone using the same as you? Sadly, this is not always the case. Commander is a game, which means…
Press Play: Robocop, The Victor Initiative and the games we’re playing
We're back with another Press Play, our little regular feature where the team at B3 get to step away from their day jobs and whatever we're reviewing to share our thoughts on what we've been playing and what we're hoping to play. This week…
Big Walk is a perfectly timed re-education in basic communication.
Big Walk is the third game from House House. the Australian based game developer known for a certain game involving a certain goose. Seeming to be a combination of their first two games (however minimal): The multiplayer aspect of Push me…
Fangtopia’s puzzles gives ghouls and ghosts a home
Fangtopia, from developer Absolutely Games and publisher Secret Mode, is a spooktacular puzzle game recently showcased at Brilliant Indie Treasures on the Golden Hinde. Fangtopia challenges you to build your ideal tile-based, spooky…
Press Play: Deadlock, Dark Souls and the games we’re playing
Now, here's a thing. The team here at B3 are always playing through games - old and new - be that because we're working on reviews or previews, or because we've been gaming for most of our lives and it's what we do to relax. We've created…
Trailblazers: Into the March takes the colony-sim formula into dangerous territory
Sitting on the uncomfortably bony knees of FTL and Rimworld, Trailblazers: Into The March doesn't just ask you to survive the journey, but to be able to build, fuel and maintain your vessel throughout. If, like me, you think that colony…
Charming, time-travelling RTS Chronocracy takes the genre from the past into the future
Chronocracy innovates by bringing the RTS genre into a 2D-plane and dividing its campaign into bitesize, timeline-shifting sections. The RTS genre has been waiting for innovation for a while now, and while Chronocracy certainly doesn't…
Star Wars Unlimited – Homeworlds’ PreCon Decks are Lethal In Their Own Ways
Every major set for Star Wars Unlimited comes with two pre-constructed decks and Homeworlds continues this trend with the Grand Moff Tarkin and Chewbacca decks, with each featuring wildly different ways to achieve victory. Each of the…
Split Personality – 5 Cards from Reality Fracture for your Commander Deck
Last Magic Monday (Is this the official name for the segment? Maybe. Is it my own internal name for this segment? Absolutely). I walked you through my top 5 picks for Commanders from the new Reality Fracture set. This time, I’ll take you…
Red Rooster is an “incendiary RPG” with Imm-Sim values
You'll have to fight fires, start fires and move fires, both literally and figuratively, in Red Rooster - the debut title from ex-ZA/UM studio, Summer Eternal. By my calculations there were five collectives left after the messy…
Headway is a card-based game about building skeletons
Headway is a card-based game all about using your skeleton parts so that you can eat soul juice that's within your enemy skeletons! I played a two player version of the game at Game Con Canada, where I faced off against the other player,…
Board Game Arena, Roll20 and the rise of tabletop gaming in the browser
Tabletop gaming no longer requires friends or family to gather in the same physical spot, and sit around an actual table. Board Game Arena and Roll20 have helped move board games, card games and role-playing campaigns into browsers. Players…
Feather’s Edge combines metroidvania and tense, brutal dash attacks
There's something about a perfectly timed dodge, dash or attack in a 2D platformer, when combined with the right visual effect, that other genres simply can't manage. Feather's Edge is build around that entire concept, challenging you to…
Our Picks from the Steam Cooking Fest
I am a huge fan of cooking games and have played a large number of them over the years. When it comes to cooking, there are so many ways that games go about it. The Steam Cooking Fest appeared, from now until the 19th of October, where you…
13 Omens is Paizo’s rules-lite horror TTRPG, but does it deliver on the scares?
When you think of who would create a 'rules-lite, narrative-first roleplaying game' the name that jumps to mind is probably not going to be Paizo; the publisher behind Pathfinder, a system known for its complexity and granular detail, which…
Alien: Evolved Edition Explained
Alien: Evolved Edition is a roleplaying game from storied Swedish publisher Free League. Combining the widely used Year Zero engine with the tense, lonely world of the famous sci-fi horror series, Alien is probably the definitive way to…
Star Wars Unlimited – Getting hands on early with Homeworlds
Star Wars Unlimited has been going strong for a few years now and its most recent set release, Homeworlds, shows that it isn't going to slow down any time soon. Homeworlds is absolutely brimming with new keywords, tokens, and the new…