board games
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Explaining Board Game Rules Is Some Bullshit
1In 2014, Shut Up & Sit Down released the essential guide to overcoming the worst thing about board games: how to explain the rules to your friends. This 2020 video from the Aunty Donna boys is…the opposite of that.
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Gloomhaven’s Sequel Raises Over $6 Million In One Day
Gloomhaven, one of the most popular board games in years, launched its big new campaign Frosthaven today on Kickstarter. Things are, uh, going well.
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The New Batman: The Animated Series Board Game Is A Big Box Of Bat Action
While DC handles Batman’s comic book adventures, the folks at IDW Games are in charge of turning the caped crusader’s animated adventures into tabletop crimefighting (or crime doing) for one to five players. There is a whole lot goiing on inside the box of Batman: The Animated Series—Shadow of the Bat.
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Crusader Kings: The Kotaku Review
Crusader Kings the video game is a massive, unwieldy thing that can’t possibly be crammed into a 2-3 hour board game experience. But developers Free League, bless them, have certainly tried.