Ain’t no party like a Sushi Go Party!
The sequel to the hit card game returns in a larger box and with more varieties of sushi to draft from. It also comes with support for up to eight players, versus the five of the original. This package is certainly bigger, but is it better?
John Cena, Randy Orton and four other top wrestlers are ready to take over your next board game night in WWE Superstar Showdown. Developed by Gail Force Nine, this board game aims to recreate the action and drama of a WWE wrestling event on your tabletop. Does it score the pinfall or does it find itself flat on the canvas?
For a game designed to get players exploring the world around them, Pokemon Go is quite the attention hog. It forces you to travel the world while your face is buried in the screen, either catching Pokemon, fighting in gyms, or eyeing for upcoming PokeStops as you walk down the street. Futhermore, since you can’t run the game in the background of your phone, it’s an all-consuming experience that stops you from performing other tasks while destroying your battery.
Pokemon Go Plus was designed to alleviate these issues. Off the strength of its one-button interface, it aims to take your attention away from the screen and onto your surroundings, allowing you to live your life while playing the game in a more passive manner. Is this highly sought after peripheral worth tracking down?
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is a modern-day fighting game classic. For years, its been one of the most hotly contested battlefields in the genre. So much so that years after Capcom stopped supporting the game, it still appears regularly at tournaments the world over.
With Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite set for release in the near future, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 returns exclusively on the PlayStation 4 to whet our appetites. Is this a port worthy of your time, whether you’re a diehard fan or a newcomer to the franchise?
Let’s get the obvious out of the way. The Game is a horrible title for this game, or any game for that matter. Beyond the obvious vague of its title, it’s a pain to search for online. As terrible as its title may be, the game was nominated for the 2015 Speil Des Jahres, one of the highest honours in tabletop gaming. There has to be something to this beyond its terrible name, right?
A raging fire is consuming a house, putting many of its inhabitants at risk. Can you and your fellow firefighters save them before its too late? This is the premise behind Flash Point: Fire Rescue. Its premise is scorching hot, but does it have the gameplay to match?
Remember that time in the XCOM reboot where you saved the world from the alien invasion? Whatever good you did eventually got undone. By the time XCOM 2 begins, the world has been enslaved by the aliens for many years. At this point, the XCOM group is nothing more than an underground movement fighting with scraps. With the odds worse than ever, can you muster up the will to fend off the alien forces one more time?
Played on a square grid with five pawns per side, Onitama by Arcane Wonders is an alternative take on Chess. As much as I respect the all-time great, I’m terrible at it. With so many options to think through, I usually result to reckless play or crippling analysis paralysis. Onitama has a unique way of mixing things up that I think work really well.
Throw on your lab coat and get ready to science it up with Dr. Eureka. In this two-to-four player dexterity game, players will race against each other to create specific formulas with their three test tubes and three different chemicals. You don’t need your PhD in chemistry to excel, but this deceptively simple tabletop game is entertaining while making you feel like a scientist at work.
Ever since they hit the scene and became a smash hit, micro games have been all the rage in the tabletop gaming space. Oftentimes, these games are highly portable, appealing to players of all skill levels, quick to play and highly addictive. Many years before this movement existed in earnest, famed designer Bruno Faudutti released Babylon. Using only 12 pieces, this is a two-player game that only takes about a minute to finish. Is there enough of a game here to keep players interested for the long haul?
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