A Druid’s Duel Offers Magical Strategy
The focus with new strategy title A Druid’s Duel on capturing tiles and formulating a territory, rather than simply routing the enemy, is a pretty interesting concept and, most of all, is quite fun.
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Space Hulk Ascension is Smashing Fun
Space Hulk Ascension offers some amazing turn-based gameplay that is as brutal as it is tactical. Strategic players will find a lot to love here.
Keeping the Zombie Genre Alive With Dead State
Dead State challenges players to keep a small band of survivors together during the zombie apocalypse with a unique blend of turn-based combat and role-playing strategy.
It’s Rogues in Space With Approaching Infinity
Approaching Infinity is a rogue-like game that challenges players to survive by exploring an infinitely large, procedurally generated universe filled with strangeness, danger and a surprising amount of humor.
Ringing in the New Year with Magic: The Gathering
This week our Time Waster took time away from video games to enjoy a Magic: The Gathering game with family and friends over the holidays.
Dungeon of the Endless Takes Dungeon Crawling to New Depths
By mixing several genres to form a hybrid rogue-like game, Dungeons of the Endless manages to fix the wrongs of a wavering genre and create a brilliantly addicting title in the process.
Civilization: Beyond Earth Opens New Horizons
Missing Alpha Centauri? Firaxis got around those pesky licensing issues with the release of Civilization: Beyond Earth, which challenges players to build a new civilization on an alien world. Are you ready for liftoff?
Ruling the World in King’s Bounty: Dark Side
King’s Bounty: Dark Side takes puts us into the magical boots of some of the more traditional villains from the game world in a campaign to defeat those pesky good heroes. With new units, powers and a gargantuan world to explore, you may find that it’s good being bad.
Battling With The Wizard!
Welcome Time Wasters! This week my Time Waster came at the suggestion of John Breeden. He was nice enough to point out a small, indie game called The Wizard to me. No, this has nothing to do with Super Mario Bros. 3 or a Power Glove. The Wizard puts players in the role of Kevin, a young wizard in training. Kevin wakes up one night to discover that his beautiful face has been stolen. Not ready to live a life without beauty, he jumps up and chases the face thief through sewers, dungeons, towers and everything in between. The Wizard … Continue reading Battling With The Wizard!
Battle Fleet 2 Takes WWII Gamers To Action Stations
Battle Fleet 2 pays homage to the turn-based naval battle games of yesteryear, but also exceeds them in quite a few ways. No armchair admiral will want to be without Battle Fleet 2 in their collection.