Tabletop Reviews

Ever wanted to be a wine magnate? We explain how we frustrated our friends in this Essential Edition of Viticulture, all for the glory of the grape.

Colour the board with mosaic tiles in Azul, an easy-to-learn board game inspired by Moorish azulejos mosaics.

We find Betrayal at Baldur's Gate, where any myriad of insane events could lead our friends to turn against us in this easy-to-play board game.

Friendly faces are few and far between in the city of New Angeles, where we play as heads of megacorporations to stake our claim on the city.

Become a druid to save the Mystic Vale in this fast-paced card game.

Amid the ever-increasing stack of board games at B3-HQ is a favourite which keeps getting dragged out as a warm-up game: Ninja Dice. 

There's some bluffing involved as we encounter new rules in Ticket to Ride's massive expansion boards, France and the Old West.

Creeping out from under popular board game Pandemic's shadow is its spin-off Reign of Cthulhu, seeing you save the world from Old Ones instead of disease.

With this year's Star Wars hype train fully underway, we take a look to see if Star Wars: Imperial Assault is still a good gaming investment three years on.

It's hard to describe how my feelings changed from beginning the game with an unmarked map and characters called "Scientist" or "Researcher" to having cities on the brink of collapse, diseases named after 80's action movie heroes and each…