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  • Penny Arcade The Game: Gamers vs. Evil Review
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    Penny Arcade The Game: Gamers vs. Evil Review

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    It is wholly unsurprising that much-loved gaming webcomic Penny Arcade should have inspired a video game franchise. It is perhaps less well known that it also lent its name and art to a deck-building card game called Gamers vs. Evil. Now those two worlds collide, as developer Playdek has released an iOS version of the card game.
  • For The Win Review
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    • iOS
    For The Win Review

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    It's easy to forget in the dazzlingly varied world of modern board gaming that for most of history, the favoured board games were all abstracts (a game which lacks a cohesive theme and places a heavy emphasis on strategy). From famous classics like Chess and Go to half-forgotten pastimes like Nine Men's Morris, they ruled the roost for thousands of years. But modern designers like the paradigm too, and the newer abstracts are starting to make the shift to iOS. Enter For the Win.
  • Minion Master Review
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    Minion Master Review

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    If there's a sweet spot for the segment of geekdom that enjoys playing games of the non-video variety, it would have to be where tabletop miniature battles meet collectible card games. BitFlip Games has come up with an ambitious way to combine the two in a virtual sense with Minion Master, a strategy game where summoned fantasy and horror beings duke it out in solo or multiplayer battles on your PC.
  • Battle of the Bulge Review
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    • iOS
    Battle of the Bulge Review

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    In December 1944, the German army made one last-ditch assault against the Allied armies as they advanced into the bitter, icy woods of Belgium. Now seen as a futile, tragic waste, the resulting battles in the snow saw tales of heroism and desperation that captured the imagination of a generation of war games. The latest title to join the throng is Battle of the Bulge, a rare historical game designed specifically for the iPad.
  • Fluxx Review
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    • iOS
    Fluxx Review

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    Tabletop card games - especially the kind that hobby gamers play - can be a lot of things.  Deep, strategic, complex; all of these are words you might expect to hear. But Fluxx is none of these.  While it may appeal to the same hobbyist market as games like Catan and Carcassonne, Fluxx is just about as silly and simple as games can get.  But that's ok - sometimes silly and simple is exactly what the doctor ordered.
  • Stone Age: The Board Game Review
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    • iOS
    Stone Age: The Board Game Review

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    Once upon a time a game designer invented a bizarre version of prehistory in which tribespeople could eat clay and plate their mud huts with gold. He named his game Stone Age and it drew praise for its enormous amount of workable strategies and ire for its silly theme and lack of interaction. Now we're in the phone age, and the game is here to make its iOS debut.
  • Space Hulk Preview
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    Space Hulk Preview

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    Earlier this year, a friend (and fellow board game nerd) decided it was time to introduce me to a little game called Space Hulk.  Essentially Aliens without the license, two players squared off against each other until only one of their teams was standing.  On the one side, the tough-as-nails space marines. On the other, a never-ending spawn of alien scum.  It was brilliant fun.  It was also, as I soon learned, out of print and prohibitively expensive on eBay.  This left me with quite a sad.
  • Talisman Prologue Review
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    Talisman Prologue Review

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    Talisman is the board game that will not die. First released by Games Workshop in 1983, it divides the board gaming community. One side see it as a long, dull, overly-random poster child for the worst excesses of gaming. The other is a joyful romp through a compelling and endlessly variable fantasy narrative. Now you can pick which side you're on with Talisman: Prologue.