In Real Life

Angry Birds Slingshot-Toting Board Game

Earlier this year we heard about the Angry Birds board game from Matell. Then we had a chance to see the game in action at CES. Now we’ve noticed that it’s for sale over on Amazon for $US20. And there are PICTURES!


September 27, 2011
News

Last Week, I Killed The Red Baron In My Living Room

What a coincidence. No sooner does Crecente spend the weekend playing tabletop games than I go and do something similar. Only instead of fighting a messy, dirty ground war, I took to the skies with Fantasy Flight Games’ Wings of War.


News

I’m Impressed By How Much This Tabletop Game Looks Like Video Game War

I haven’t played a tabletop game since my near-obsession with Warhammer back in my college days.


March 31, 2011
In Real Life

Thorn Dice, The Most Brutal Tabletop Dice In All The Land

Although you’ll have to make sure they get a good randomising rotation in the air before they land-they don’t look like they’d roll well – you’d be hard pressed to find a more badass set of number generators than these “thorn dice”, available in hard resin or metal depending on how much you’d like to pay. (Platinum accepted at fine smithies everywhere.) [Shapeways via Boing Boing]


August 25, 2010
In Real Life

Angry Birds The Tabletop Version

A fan of iPhone and iPad game Angry Birds is so into the game that she’s created her own tabletop version which she calls Angry Birds Live.


March 8, 2010
In Real Life

The World’s Greatest Dungeons & Dragons Room

Devon Burntwire has, for the last two years, been working on a little project: a custom room, designed solely for games of Dungeons & Dragons. It’s now finished, and it’s amazing.


December 10, 2009

Tabletop Gaming & Video Games Meet In A Safe, Happy Place

This is SurfaceScape, a project aimed at taking Microsoft’s “Surface” touch-screen table and bending it to the will of a bunch of tabletop gamers.