Stuff We Love: Games Workshop’s Talisman was the gateway drug of board games

Feb 8, 2018 | SyFy

Monopoly. Connect 4. Life. Candyland. Battleship. When I was young, I had played all of the Parker Brothers’ games, and if I could find a Parker Sister, I’d play her games, too.

Stuff We Love: This video explains why your favorite D20 actually sucks

Dec 9, 2017 | SyFy

Even though I consider myself a gamer, I never seriously contemplated dice beyond praying to whoever my mage worshiped as I rolled her way to safety or sudden death. But this lecture below, by Louis Zocchi, owner of GameScience, changed all of that.

Find The Right Board Game To Match Your Personality

Aug 9, 2016 | Geek & Sundry

Quantic Foundry, a game analytics consultancy, recently took a full 220,000 videogamers and studied their motivations. The results were obvious in retrospect: People choose games based on their personality. In other words, gamers who are extroverted like games with...

Find The Right Board Game To Match Your Personality

Aug 9, 2016 | Geek & Sundry

Quantic Foundry, a game analytics consultancy, recently took a full 220,000 videogamers and studied their motivations. The results were obvious in retrospect: People choose games based on their personality. In other words, gamers who are extroverted like games with...

Gamers Mash Up Operation with Paintball with Obvious Results

Jul 29, 2016 | Geek & Sundry

Remember the 1965 board game Operation? In the game, you play a surgeon who has to remove plastic objects from different parts of a patient’s body with a pair of tweezers. If you accidentally touch the edges of the body cavity, you get buzzed. Your turn is over. It’s...