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Survive The Island rescues just the right amount of nostalgia!
For readers of a certain age, Survive: Escape from Atlantis will be a core memory. With its modular island made up of bright, plastic hexagons, this 1980’s classic is a game that I remember well. In keeping with the current fashion,…
Ticket to Ride has some brand new deluxe train upgrades and you definitely need them!
Ticket to Ride remains one of the most popular board games in modern history - possibly ever if we exclude Chess, Draughts and other truly timeless games. There's no doubt that when you ask almost any gamer what their go to game for "new…
B3’s Christmas Gift Guide for Gamers, 2024 Edition
Updated on November 9th, with new gifts for 2024. Christmas is coming, it has been inching closer and closer, so it’s time to start getting gifts for those lovely gamers in your life! As gamers ourselves, we have selected a bunch of…
Empire of the Ants is an epic, approachable modern classic
A couple of months ago when I previewed Empire of the Ants, I was excited by several things — the amazing graphics, the focus on gamepad based control and the kind of things the game had me doing. There were reservations though — a couple…
The Cat Mitt Game is a silly ball-bashing, dice-stealing game with a fun gimmick
Race against your rivals to serve up a cat's supper in The Cat Mitt Game. Gimmick games come in all shapes and sizes, but I don't think a board game has ever, ever required me to don oven-mitts and try to agitate pieces out of a ball...…
Dead Season – ‘Tis the season!
A somewhat unique resource in Dead Season is that of noise. If you clobber a zombie in the head with a baseball bat it’s fairly quiet, but carve up some corpses with a chainsaw or unleash a barrage of assault rifle fire and you’ll rile up…
Amanda the Adventurer – Dora the Hexplorer
If you solve additional, hidden puzzles, you’ll discover other tapes that reveal more about what was going on behind the scenes of the TV show you’re exploring. Reaching an end to the game isn’t too challenging, but getting an actually…
Crayon Shin-Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town — one goofball’s grand holiday
Crayon Shin-Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is the second fusion of Crayon Shin-Chan, beloved anime, and the cult favourite Boku no Nasuyatsumi series. If I’ve lost you already, don’t worry, same. I’ve got zero familiarity with half of this…
Deep Rock Galactic is a breakthrough hit
I’ve heard a lot about Deep Rock Galactic, and we’ve certainly covered it here at B3 — but I’d never played it myself. Dwarves, beer, mining etc — I felt I’d seen and done it all before. But on the tabletop things hit differently. Creating…
Twisted History – Trivia but strange
We’ve played a large number of trivia games during our time covering tabletop games. However, Twisted History has trivia questions I’ve never been asked or wondered the answer to — and that’s its point! Split between six eras of history,…