Arcs: the blighted reach

Deckbuilding, in this economy? There are a lot of deckbuilding games out there, and Shards of Infinity: Saga Collection is like a buffet of some of your favourite mechanics, cut with a handful of neat

Wargaming as a genre can seem inaccessible. The need for miniatures, the dense rulesets, the never-ending expansions that add to an already complex world – it’s all just too much for many potential pl

Sometimes it can seem like roleplay games always come down to dungeons filled with dwarves and goblins hacking at each other with swords. Just studying t-shirts at a gaming con tends to imply a homoge

Corporate flatter

For my entire lifetime, the undisputed titan of miniatures wargaming has been Games Workshop. Its key titles Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 involve tabletops filled with tiny plastic warriors; specifi

While tabletop gaming has changed a lot in recent years, one element of the hobby has proved refreshingly enduring. Dungeon crawlers are still with us – a hold-over from an era when game night meant c