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Once Upon A Time

Posted by Steve Darlington on Monday, March 1st, 2010

When people ask me what my favorite game is, I don’t have to think very hard. For me, a good game is like a photo album: full of memories. When you look at it, you remember all the people you enjoyed it with, and all those wonderful times you had. Plenty of good games do [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘Fantasy Flight Games’

Middle-Earth Quest

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Middle-Earth Quest is the latest in a long line of games that let fans participate in Tolkien-based adventures, though this is a little different. There’s still a Sauron player intent on conquering everything, but everyone else portrays second-string heroes, cinematic extras who fill in the setting’s historical blanks by forestalling the villain’s ascendancy until the [...]

Ad Astra

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Science fiction would have you believe eventually we’ll wear out our welcome on Earth, or perhaps more accurately, we’ll wear out Earth itself, and at that point everyone has to look for new worlds. Hence, Ad Astra, wherein mankind has split into five factions based on the subspecies they have evolved into, each of which [...]

Star*Craft

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Merchandising. As they said in Spaceballs, that’s where the real money of the movie is made. Game companies have finally learnt the same lesson, but it’s about more than just money – it’s about crossover potential. I know a guy who owns one game, the Mustang version of Monopoly, because he likes vintage mustangs. So [...]

Arkham Horror

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Arkham Horror is one of Fantasy Flight Games’ “big box” games, and it has a big price to match. But the big box comes with big contents and big return. There are hundreds of cards, sixteen different heroes, eight different villains and a gigantic board – all illustrated in full color. Naturally, Arkham Horror draws [...]