I don’t know what to make of Pond. Not as a board game — it isn’t that hard to get a handle on — but rather as an artifact of hyperreality, a signifier that has sprung into Pinocchio-li…

This Way Up is a book about maps by the incredible Map Men duo. The book itself though... the book is a bit of a mixed bag.

I don't like WH40K. I do like Orks. I'm going to blame this second fact for why I decided to quickly read Brutal Kunnin.

I liked Dusk best when it's map design synergized with it's horror tone, and less when it made me fight invisible ghosts in underground mines.

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

Sir, We Have an Orc Problem has the bones of a solid tower defense. Unfortunately, those bones sit in a gelatinous cube of incremental game.

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I went to the Maine Renaissance Faire, and while I did not eat a turkey leg, I did learn about divination via cheese.

Titanium Court is a fascinating combo of match-3 and strategy game set in the perculiar Faerie castle of the Titanium Court. I like it a lot.