Board Game News
Restoration Games Unmatched Contest Winners Announced
Restoration Games announced the winners of their Unmatched character design contest via a Twitter update and press release this morning. The four winning characters...
Game Reviews
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle – Charms and Potions Expansion Review
I remember back at Gen Con 2016, there was a massive amount of buzz about the Harry Potter deck-building game. The Op had a...
Top Ten Game Lists
Top 10 Marvel Board Games
Thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Marvel brand is as hot as it's ever been. You can't shake a stick without banging it...
Kickstarters of the Week
Kickstarters of the Week: 3/8
We continue on through March with another batch of Kickstarter campaigns for you to check out. Not much else is going on in the...
Digital Board Game Reviews
Roll for the Galaxy Digital Review
Publishers love creating variants of existing games with a new core mechanism. It allows them to capitalize on the success of one game and...
Kickstarter Game Previews
Silicon Saga: Wreck of the Andromeda Preview
Note: This preview uses pre-release components and rules. What you see here may be different from the final, published game. This post was a...
Quest Lists
Best Licensed Board Games
For the longest time, licensed board games were mostly shovelware. These were games that were reskinned versions of mass-market titles made purely to capture...
Quick Hits from the Vault
Quick Hits: Marvel Champions: The Card Game Review
It's time for another Quick Hits from the Vault, the series where many of the BGQ team gathers together to give you our quick...
Level Up My Game
I Tried Out GetJester — the “Try Before You Buy” Board Game...
This week I had the opportunity to try out a new board game delivery service, GetJester.com.
The premise is very much like most subscription delivery...
Controlled Area Gaming
Castle TriCon – Necessity Breeds Ingenuity
Even though 2020 is firmly behind us, the specter of those dark times remains. Much like the novel’s ending of Lord of the Rings,...
Rumblings from the Deep
The Rise of the $1 Backer
How many of you have backed a Kickstarter project before? Show of hands? Yes, about all of you, that's what I've figured. Now how...
Parental Guidance
How to Raise a Gamer: Part 1 – To Lay Tiles or...
This is a guest post from Chris and Damian Biewer.
COVID-19 has forced a lot of “quality” time with the family. Board games have been...