I love deckbuilders. They weren’t always my favorite types of game to play physically—learning and keeping track of a set of often esoteric rules can be a drain mentally– but […]

With the impending approach of October and all of the spookiness that brings, Free League Publishing is offering up some scary sci-fi tabletop role-playing to get the season started. I’ve […]

The world is stressful, especially this year. We’ve all been doing our own thing to combat it—I’ve been listening to soothing music while working, and I try not to have […]

Can it run Crysis?  That’s a question that’s been asked since the original game’s release. Its graphical reckoning forced PC gamers to upgrade just to be able to run the […]

I played Crash Bandicoot on PlayStation when it originally released, but it’s one of the games of that generation that never clicked. I think I was obsessed with more action-oriented […]

My tabletop role-playing group has been playing a lot of Alien:  The Roleplaying Game by Free League Publishing. It’s a great, tense reproduction of the Alien movies with rules and […]

I can remember my “git gud” moments in video games pretty clearly. I always think I’m good enough, and then something comes along to challenge that—whether it is insanely good […]

Tower defense games are a bit of a stigma to some. Unless you can stand out from the crowd, you’re doing what’s already been done before. But when a tower […]

To some the subgenre “roguelike” is a bad word. It means difficult gameplay, and to some, frustration. What if I told you that roguelikes aren’t all for hardcore gamers, and […]

I love co-op games. Playing with my wife or friends is great, and made even greater if we’re working together to achieve the same goal. And we’ll play all sorts […]

A few years ago everyone was excited for Banished—a colony building game where you had to see a group of people create a home for themselves in harsh wilderness. The […]

Taking on too much all at once is usually a bad idea. That said, it doesn’t usually stop creators. This can lead to a great triumph, a catastrophe, or, in […]