Ticket to Ride shows the future of board games may be digital

When people talk about entry-level board games, the kind designed to get your buddies over the hobby’s notoriously high barrier for entry, a few games are mentioned. Settlers of Catan gets first billing as a classic. Then you have modern

The Campfire: Cardboard politics in Ancient Greece

The best tabletop games make you feel like some scheming politician in a smokey backroom surrounded by your friends and prospective enemies. Everything feels real because everything is: the armies you command aren’t lines of code and pictures but instead

The death and rebirth of Bushido Blade

Given the choice of every fighting game ever made, I’d pick Bushido Blade. The game and its sequel were Squaresoft titles for the original Playstation, and featured poorly voice acted, blocky “samurai” squaring off on areas that probably featured about

Cooperative Competition and Cardboard

Goldeneye gave me some of my favorite gaming memories. Super Smash Brothers and Mario Kart gave me the others. There’s something about sitting around a coffee table with your friends, eating badly processed boneless chicken wings and laughing as someone