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Crop of the box art for Dungeon Scrawlers Heroes of Undermountain with cute cartoon drawings of an orc, an elf, and a tiefling wielding markers

Draw!: Reaching the End of the Line in Dungeon Scrawlers

By Orrin Grey • April 14th, 2025

Dungeon Scrawlers has much more in common with the placemat at a fast food restaurant than with a game of Dungeons & Dragons.

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The box art for Tidal Blades Heroes of the Reef cropped in on the title though we can still see a rich blue sky, green specked islands and houses and trees, the back of a hero with a sword and an elder in a straw had speaking to the hero

Heroes of the Reef: The Art and World of Tidal Blades

By Orrin Grey • January 29th, 2025

To prove your mettle, you must compete in a tournament.

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A photo of a game of Warhammer Underworlds in action with a hex map, cards on a table, several six-sided dice, and many miniatures of various warriors, with bows, swords, and other weapons

Mad About Underworlds: In This Case, I Mean Mad as in Angry

By Orrin Grey • November 12th, 2024

The Warhammer: Underworlds warbands have a level of personality that larger armies simply can’t, with each individual model given a name, special rules, and some character that help it to pop.

Crop of the cover of the two-pack set of Clash of the Titans and Wrath of the Titans, with a sword weilding Kratos, a cyclops, and a pegasus riding Persues

No Gods, No Masters: When Titans Ruled Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • September 20th, 2024

Clash of the Titans came out during the baffling moment when Sam Worthington was being cast as the lead in everything.

The Sorcerers’ Enclave

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 22nd, 2024

You know the Necromancer is always going to be trouble.

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A crop of the cover of the rulebook for Dreadfleet with a pirate with a mossy back and horned red pirate hat and golden chin

Blood and Plunder: Finding Lost Treasure (Though Maybe Not the Kind You Want) in Dreadfleet

By Orrin Grey • June 21st, 2024

Just as Dreadfleet is one of the last games released before Warhammer’s “Old World” became the “Mortal Realms” of Age of Sigmar, it is also one of the last gasps of an aesthetic style that had once defined the brand but was already on the way out.

A screenshot from Baldur's Gate 3's infamous bear sex scene, but it's just a picture of a bear with a sly desire in his eye and a wet nose

I Want to Make Love to a Bear: Sex, Society and Baldur’s Gate 3

By Adan Jerreat-Poole • May 29th, 2024

How might we reimagine our relationship to the environment – in our own context of climate change, deforestation, and mass extinctions – if we understood bear sex as a metaphor for falling in love with the natural world?

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a close up shot of the game Super Boss Monster, featuring a library area and a hideout area with minion meeples standing there as well as some dungeon room cards like Kobold Union and Puzzle Door

But Not Too Bold: Building a Better Dungeon in Boss Monster

By Orrin Grey • April 3rd, 2024

The real draw of both Boss Monster and Overboss is the low-res pixel art of side-scrolling dungeon rooms (in the former case) and top-down overworlds (in the latter).

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A cropped image of the box art for Warhammer Doomseeker with those words in stylized text over a huge and ornate double-bladed ax

Death is Not the End: How to Win and Die Trying in Doomseeker

By Orrin Grey • February 2nd, 2024

This is a game where it actually does pay to die, if you can do it when you mean to.

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A crop from the cover for Ni no Kuni 2 the board game, with the title text laid over a cartoon image of a long dragon soaring through a partly cloudy sky over a quaint city below

A Question of Influence: Building Your Kingdom in Ni no Kuni II: The Board Game

By Orrin Grey • January 9th, 2024

In some ways, however, the simplicity of Ni no Kuni II: The Board Game is also part of its strength. It’s a game that’s easy to learn and quick to play. In a world full of overly complex titles packed with fiddly little tokens and pieces, it almost feels old-fashioned.

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