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san il defanso
August 19, 2013
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Until this year, I think everyone had played Magic: the Gathering except for me. I moved overseas literally months before it debuted in 1993, and i...
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san il defanso
May 14, 2013
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Readers who have met me in real life know that I live for social interaction in games. It doesn’t even need to be an element of the mechanics, just...
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san il defanso
April 23, 2013
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I learned The Settlers of Catan from a college friend of mine, who explained it without glancing at the rules. We had a ball and played most of my ...
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Matt Thrower
April 22, 2013
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I don’t like rating games, video or board. A good review should manage to encapsulate how you feel about a game without stamping a score at the bot...
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san il defanso
February 26, 2013
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Upon reading Michael Barnes’s recent review of Exodus: Proxima Centauri, I felt a creeping weariness set into my mind. Not because of the review it...
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Matt Thrower
February 10, 2013
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When you love an artist, it’s a wonderful pleasure to slowly work your way through their catalogue,filtering it all through the twin lenses of your...
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Matt Thrower
January 28, 2013
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And so we come, without due ceremony, to the last of my yearly writing traditions: the top-rated games of people who hold the “Ameritrash fan” badg...
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san il defanso
January 14, 2013
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The first hobby game that I learned to play was The Settlers of Catan, which I got into just prior to my senior year of college. Needless to say, i...
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Matt Thrower
January 14, 2013
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I seem to have fallen into an end-year pattern when it comes to writing: I close the year with a best-of list and open the new one with a rundown o...
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san il defanso
December 25, 2012
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Whenever an old game from 30-40 years ago gets reprinted, there will always be a chorus of people who just don’t get it. Maybe their tastes just do...