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GEN CON ONLINE

Dialing Up the Hype

GAMES & STORYTELLING

TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY

FOUR SENSES

This abstract strategy game calls on you to use one of your senses that is often underutilized in gaming: can your sense of touch lead you to victory?

GAME REVIEWS: STARLINK

Starlink is a drawing game where you draw constellations in the night sky, and create your own unique celestial nightscape!

Reflections on 10 Years of Gaming

I’ve been playing board games my entire life, but I started getting into the hobby around 2010. My then-girlfriend, now-wife introduced me to Ticket to Ride in grad school. Soon after, friends showed us Carcassonne, Lords of Waterdeep, and Kill Doctor Lucky.

DONT SKIP THESE ALTERNATIVES TO UNO

IN 1971...

CHRONICLES of CRIME

THE MILLENIUM SERIES

ARCANE WONDERS

The Magic Behind Arcane Wonders

ROBOT INVASION: THE CONVERGENCE OF TABLETOP GAMES AND TECHNOLOGY

It will be a surprise to absolutely no one that technology is slowly creeping into the world of tabletop games, just as it has in every other facet of life. What might actually be surprising is how slowly the creep is. Especially considering the wild success of mobile games and the ubiquity of smartphones, you might expect more tabletop games supplemented with apps. So why are tabletop games lagging behind when we embrace technology in other areas without looking back?

What Kind of Board Gamer Are You?

IT’S SAFE TO SAY THAT WE ALL PLAY BOARD GAMES BECAUSE WE ARE LOOKING TO ENJOY OURSELVES. BUT WHAT KIND OF FUN WE’RE LOOKING FOR CAN DIFFER FROM GAMER TO GAMER. SOME OF US PREFER GAMES THAT INCLUDE EVERYONE AT FAMILY GAME NIGHT. OTHERS SEARCH FOR NEW WAYS TO CHALLENGE THEMSELVES AND TEST THEIR STRATEGIC ACUMEN AGAINST LIKE-MINDED OPPONENTS (OR THEIR LONG-SUFFERING SIGNIFICANT OTHERS). AND THERE ARE OTHERS STILL THAT ARE JUST LOOKING FOR THE CHANCE TO INTRODUCE THEIR FRIENDS TO BOARD GAMES.

Pictures is Major Fun!

MAJOR FUN REVIEW

Pandemic

Taking a Gaming Break from the Outbreak

GAME REVIEWS: MENTAL BLOCKS

Mental Blocks is a cooperative puzzle game in which each player is dealt a card that shows one perspective for the block tower they are building.

HINDSIGHT IS 2020: REVISITING THE CLASSICS WITH RESTORATION GAMES

There is mounting evidence that the board gaming industry boom is not going away. People of all ages are flocking to board gaming as a means of entertainment, fun, and connecting with others in variable settings. Conventions devoted to promoting the latest games continue to swell, with anticipation of the latest hotness working thousands into a frenzy.

Flipping Out Over SILVER COIN

Game series don’t come along all that often. Expansions, sure, but not an actual series of stand-alone games. Silver is both a series of games (Silver Coin is the third of at least seven planned entries) and a collection of expansions, with each game being both stand-alone as well as an expansion for the previous titles. Even weirder is the notion that the two previous games in the series—Silver and Silver Bullet—serve as expansions to Silver Coin.

BOARD GAME ROCK STARS

5 Game Designers Who Changed the World

Revved up and ready to go

EA hands the wheel of Need For Speed back over to Criterion Games

The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor

Return to Tamriel’s frigid North this summer Chris Burke

Remothered: Broken Porcelain

We’re going potty for this cult classic survival horror sequel

Yakuza 0 Yakuza Kiwami Yakuza Kiwami 2

Triple trouble: Sega’s crime drama trio brings glorious thug‑thumping action to Xbox

Mosaic

ALL AROUND ME ARE FAMILIAR OFFICE SPACES

The Falconeer

Savouring the joys of flight with an indie that’s living on a (gigantic) wing and a prayer

10 Best Multiplayer Games

From shooters to kitchen chaos, these titles are best played with friends

How ‘Warcraft III' Became A Great ‘Lord Of The Rings' Game

It doesn’t get discussed as much as ‘Defense of the Ancients,’ but ‘Warcraft III’ had a surprising symbiosis with ‘The Lord of the Rings’—one that’s worth revisiting.

THE PROMISED 'LANDS

With so many great games competing for our time, how do you keep gamers locking and loading? Gearbox’s looter-shooter, Borderlands 3, knows how…

RIP & TEAR

ID'S LATEST ENTRY IN THE ICONIC OLD-SCHOOL SHOOTER SERIES IS IN A DIFFERENT CLASS. OXM GETS HANDS-ON WITH THE GAME, TO LEARN SOME VALUABLE LESSONS FROM THE FPS MASTERS.

Untitled Goose Game

INDIE PRANKSTER EARNS ALL THE LAUGHS THROUGH WATERFOWL PLAY

THE MOST IMPORTANT RPGS ON XBOX

Whether it’s Fable, Destiny or The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, these are the most influential, genre-defining role-players in the history of Xbox

RETROSPECTIVE BURNOUT

Forget Paradise City. We’re going back to where Burnout began on the original Xbox

Journey To The Savage Planet

IN SPACE, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU LAUGH