Last week, Wizards of the Coast announced Magic: The Gathering‘s Summer of Legend featuring the releases of Modern Horizons 2, Magic‘s first Dungeons & Dragon set, and Historic Anthology V on Magic: The Gathering Arena. Like past Historic Anthology sets, Historic Anthology V introduces new cards from Magic‘s history into Magic: The Gathering Arena‘s exclusive...
A little over a year ago I reviewed Hand of Fate, an action-RPG with deckbuilding strategy and a lot of tough choices. The concept was unique and clever—you create a deck from encounter and equipment cards, the dealer mixes in some nasty ones of his own, and then a dungeon path is dealt out for...
The Doom closed multiplayer beta is underway. Right now thousands of helmeted space marines are spamming rockets at each other across rivers of blood and lava. Occasionally, one of them stands on a rune and turns into a hellbeast. It’s kinetic and bloody, but is it any good? Tom and Phil have put in a few...
Every shelf and desk at Mohawk Games’ Baltimore office contains a hand-selected boardgame collection. Each collection says something about the owner of that particular work station: who likes laid-back party games, who wants to sow distrust and dissent, and who wants to re-fight the great battles of old wars. Soren Johnson pointed to those board...
Planet Coaster is the spiritual successor to RollerCoaster Tycoon, that beloved series of theme park simulators. The basic premise hasn’t changed much—build a park, fill it with rides, keep the punters happy—but now there are many extra layers of complexity. The simulation is richer the creation tools are more powerful. “I worked on the RollerCoaster...
I’m sat on top of a castle looking over a gridded battlefield, with a menacing metal mask staring back at me from the fortress on the other side. Dragon Front, a free to play VR card game exclusive to the Oculus store, does a great job of making you feel more like the commander of an...
You don’t have to look far to see how influential the MOBA has been on modern blockbuster games, and Battleborn is the least apologetic when it comes to wearing those influences proudly. Gearbox’s sprightly FPS already has a per-match levelling system spread across 25 characters with unique skill trees, but the PvP Incursion mode is perhaps...
