August 31, 2020Matt Lees News Quinns: Morning Ava! I am wearing my Tom suit and Tom hat and am happy to help you with the news today Ava: Quinns, have you just glued a rat to your face and stapled bacon to your clothes? I don’t even understand why you would think that was a

Sidebar Games, the studio behind the newly released Sports Story game on the Nintendo Switch, has announced that they are preparing to release the Version 1.0.3 update. The game received a surprise release on the Nintendo Switch eShop on 23rd December, 2022, though it sadly had some issues which the team is hopeful will be

Little is known about Nightingale, the first game from studio Inflexion Games led by ex-Bioware boss Aaryn Flynn, but that’s soon set to change. First revealed at last year’s Game Awards, the Victorian-era “gaslamp fantasy” survival game is now set for an early access release in the first half of next year. For PC only

DETONATORS! – Kickstarter Review  Designer: Tony Topol Artists: Tony Topol Publisher: Insight Studios  Year Published: 2022 (Live on Kickstarter, link at the bottom)   No. of Players: 4-5 Ages: 10+ Playing Time: 15-30 minutes.   Foreword:     I met up with Tony and three fellow playtesters (party of 5) for a digital playthrough of DETONATORS! via Tabletop Simulator. Currently

As a father to twin four-year-olds, I consider it a life goal to keep them as far away from some of the usual mass market games as I can. You know the ones: Candyland, Chutes and Ladders, any form of Monopoly. So they’ve been fed a steady diet of games from HABA, Foxmind, and Blue

August 10, 2020Matt Lees News Ava: Expelled? From board game school? But I played by all the rules! And you’re not even the head of board game school, you’re just a janitor! Surely you can’t have expulsion privileges?! Tom: Ava, everyone has expulsion privileges at board game school. It’s a loophole in the rules –

Do we really need a Horizon Zero Dawn remake? That was the first topic on this week’s Digital Foundry Direct, as John, Rich and Alex grapple with the prospect of a PS5 remaster of a recently-released PlayStation 4 title. It’s a hard question to answer, as undoubtedly the team at Guerrilla Games wants their work

Never Miss Everything Board Game posts again! Get them in your inbox: Quick Look: Space Themed Game Music Musician:  Jazz PaladinYear Published:  2022 Playing Time:  48 min   From the Musician:There are many, many , space-themed board games out there to play these days, filled with highly engaging and thrilling gameplay , but how many

A lot of classic movies take place at ski resorts. Ski Patrol, Better off Dead, Hot Tub Time Machine, The Shining (well there’s snow so Jack could’ve gone skiing if he didn’t want to be a dull boy), about half a dozen James Bond films, and the made for TV movie, Snow Beast, which also

August 3, 2020Matt Lees News Ava: It’s getting news in here, so take off all your news. I am, getting so news, I’m gonna take my news off. Tom: Whoa, nelly! Cool your news boots. That’s just a bit too news. Ava: I know Tom, I know. But GenCon Online has given us so much