2011 was a year when some of the decade’s most anticipated games made their way into the hands of eager gamers and numerous iconic series reached their conclusions. Mass Effect 3, Skyrim, Rayman Origins, Assassins Creed Revelations, Uncharted 3 and Battlefield 3 are just a few titles that made 2011 more than simply a big year for gamers. For many critics...

I had the opportunity to playtest the new Beta version of Wizards of the Coast 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons (DnD).  Yes 5th edition, it appears as if Wizards has seen the formalisation of Pathfinder with its international mainstream hardcopy release, which now outsells DnD, and reacted with yet another edition of this iconic roleplaying game. If anyone has...

Cliché Conflict is a card game from Purgatory, a small hobby board game company located in Sydney, Australia who recently exhibited at the 2012 Sydney Toy and Game Expo. I was lucky enough to attend Game Expo where I had the opportunity to look around at some non-mainstream game creators and some international game designers – and bring home far too many...

It looks like Bioware will be toying with our emotions and waging war on our spare time once again, with their latest gaming offering Mass Effect 3. It is time to stretch out our fingers, stock up on junk food and abandon all ties to the outside world as we step into the shoes of Commander Shepard for the last time. Mass Effect 3 is the culmination not only of...

Small World is a ruthless, cutthroat board game where the shortage of land and the ever increasing civilisations come into direct conflict and domination and war ensue. The object of the game is to establish a civilisation, extend it as far as it will go, send it into decline, start another one…..repeat…..repeat…..possibly repeat.  It really depends on...

Cargo Noir is a trading board game in which participants play as an Organised Crime Syndicate, traveling the world, from port to port to collect various goods, including uranium, art, cars and jewels.  These goods are then warehoused and eventually cashed in for objects of wealth, nightclubs and yachts for example, representing points in the game.  The player...