Column
Monster Slaughter Is a Goofy Tribute to ’80s Horror Films
One of the great joys of watching monster horror movies is betting on which of the obnoxious young protagonists will die first. Ankama’s ...
Table Talk
Lose Your Mind and End the World in Gates of Delirium
There are numerous board games based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft where players take on the role of brave, if somewhat ...
Column
Everyone’s Probably Going to Die in the Horrifically Silly Grind House Board Game
In honor of Halloween, I’m dedicating all of this month’s Table Talk stories to horror games. The genre is just as popular in ...
Table Talk
Letter Jam Tests Your Vocabulary and Teamwork
At the end of a playthrough of Czech Games Edition’s Letter Jam, I felt like I was pulling off a magic trick. Flipping ...
Features
Contra: Rogue Corps Combines the A-Team and Diablo for Alien-Killing Madness
As streamers played Konami’s Contra: Rogue Corps during a launch event Saturday at Twitch Studios in Seattle, one comment kept coming up from ...
Features
Rain of Reflections Is an Innovative Love Letter to XCOM
Victor Lionhead spent 15 years working as a games journalist in Sweden, following a passion that started when he was seven and would ...
Features
Mythgard Aims to Combine the Best Parts of Hearthstone & Magic: The Gathering
It has been 1,000 years since the gods ruled supreme, but they have all but disappeared. Now lesser creatures of myth have found ...
Table Talk
Game of Thrones: Oathbreaker Perfectly Captures Backstabbing Politics
As Yara Greyjoy, I had already pretty much proven my loyalty to the queen. She had issued a proclamation forcing all of the ...
Features
Exclusive: Rune II Launching in November with a 15-Hour Quest to Kill Loki
When Human Head Studios ran a closed beta for Rune: Ragnarok in late 2018, the team got a lot of feedback from the ...
Features
Dreamscaper Combines Elements of The Binding of Isaac, Dead Cells, and Ashen to Tell a Story About Depression
When the founders of Afterburner Studios began working on their first game, they were looking for a way to marry the mechanics to ...
Table Talk
Support or Swindle Adventurers in the Drafting Game Bargain Quest
Shopping is a surprisingly important part of being a hero. Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, and other role-playing games have complex rules for how ...
News
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Entering Early Access in March
TaleWorlds Entertainment released a YouTube video yesterday announcing that Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord will enter early access on Steam in March 2020. ...