Games Overboard

If you’ve ever had the opportunity to play with the Microsoft Surface you’ll know that the system in unique in many ways.  It’s multi-touch, can detect physical items placed on it and interpret what they are, and it’s beautiful. Having had an opportunity to play Chess and Checkers on one a few months ago, I [...]

You know you’re a Board Gamer when you start buying games. Not the occasional one at Christmas or a Birthday mind you, but I’m talking about that stage where you are looking at Thrift stores for lost gems, checking Ebay for deals, and looking at BoardGameGeek.com every day to see what auctions are up.  There [...]

So you’re thinking about planning a game night and want to know some of the basics, eh?  Well, it’s really not that hard.  One might even say there’s no planning involved, all you need are friends, some games, and a place to play. But that’s not enough for you, right?  You want the game night [...]

When the new year was approaching and I looked in my closet I saw that I had over 120 games.  Holy crap!  that’s a lot, and the problem was I hadn’t played a lot of them in a long time. I’m actually pretty good about keeping my collection filtered.  I look at the piles on [...]