In November my DVD player crapped out and I decided it was time to make the jump to Blu-Ray by getting a Playstation 3. With the holidays around the corner and cash running low I decided I’d drop the hint to my parents that I wanted the PS3. My email to them read something like […]

I was thinking of getting a PS3 but I started to wonder if I could afford to support it. Supporting a toddler (the Wii) and his older brother (the 360) is expensive enough!

I’ve been looking forward to the release of a handful of board games (not that I’ll have time to play any of them half as much as I want to.)
Duel in the Dark - A 2-player strategy game in which one player is the RAF trying to bomb targets in Germany and the other player […]

This is a German card game that I played for the first time over the weekend. It’s very easy to learn with a good amount of strategy involved (the strategy takes a game or two to grasp.)
In 6 Nimmt!, players are dealt a hand of ten cards from a deck of 104. Each round, players […]

Personally, I don’t much care for this game but my family loves it and we played it yesterday so I decided to write it up.
Apples to Apples is a card game for (theoretically) 3 or more players. In my opinion, the more players there are the more fun the game is.
The game consists of two […]

Just as Mondays are dedicated to “pick up and play” games, Fridays will be dedicated to games that you have no Earthly business attempting to play unless you have a vested interest in gaming.

The game is set in H.P. Lovecraft’s fictional city of Arkham where a nameless, unspeakable horror (as the title suggests) is lurking […]

I never, ever have anything to post about on Mondays. From now on, Monday’s post will be devoted to “Casual gaming.” Each week I’ll review a game (video, board, or otherwise) that has mass-appeal and is easy to pick up, learn, and play.
The criteria I use to determine what makes a game (not a video […]

I picked up Shadow of the Colossus at Best Buy for 20 bucks the other day. This game is perfect for those of us who don’t have an ass-ton of time to play an epic adventure game (I do play those from time to time but right now I have too much going on.)
Here’s the […]

Monopoly is a board game that’s universally beloved by most Americans. I have no statistics to back this up but when the phrase “family game night” is mentioned I’ll wager that most people think of Monopoly with its piles of colorful money and little metal pieces shaped like depression-era housewares.
If you’re a true gamer, on […]

My gamertag is scientist tz if anyone’s interested in playing.
On Sunday evening one of my friends said of Settlers of Catan (and I’ll probably slightly misquote this since it’s from memory.)
If you take Monopoly, strip away the tedious manner in which players are eliminated one by one, remove the running around in circles, and make […]