Fresco – First play and explanation of game
Last night I got the chance to get Fresco to the table for the first time. After Queen sent me the English instructions I’d had a read through and knew what I was doing,...
Category: games
German Cardboard
Boardgame fanatics the world over know that Germany is the epicenter of our world. Sure, there are American publishers putting decent stuff out, but for fans of the Eurogame, Germany is where it’s at....
Castle Crashing
After a few weeks of messed-up sleeping patterns thanks to a face full of new teeth, RAR seems to have settled down over the last few nights. Last night he fell asleep watching his...
A quick catch-up
It’s been one of those quiet times around here hasn’t it? It’s due to a mixture of not having too much to talk about and being crazy busy with work really, but I still...
Back On Board
Now that the nights are drawing in at a rate of knots, and RAR is sleeping much, much better than he used to, I’m starting to get a bit of my old life back....
Changing of the Guard
I posted a while ago with my dilemma about what to do with the next generation of games consoles. I’m still umm-ing and ahh-ing and not really sure about anything, but I’m getting closer....
Next Generation – Which Way Now?
The lines have been drawn in the sand. We know what the next five years or so of video games in the living room is going to look like from Christmas onward, and now...
Curtains for Windows?
No, I’ve not taken up drapery along with everything else, this is about computers again (woo, yay, etc.). I’ve mentioned previously that I’ve been using Linux as my OS of choice lately, and it’s...
Twenty-Five Games for my Son
This is something I’m shamelessly ripping off, based on something I saw on YouTube. Randy Yasenchak of ElderGeek.com had the really nice idea of building a list of games for his young son to...
Tomb Raider
This is the first time I’ve felt compelled to write about a game in a long time, and it’s one I got ‘accidentally’ (accidentally in this case is me pre-ordering it a long time...