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7:00 PM on 04.24.2013

BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia rulebook posted

We first heard about BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia just a few weeks ago, and this week, Plaid Hat Games has released a PDF of the game's rulebook for your perusal. Board game geeks may want to read it from cover to...

Darren Nakamura

7:00 AM on 04.20.2013

Behold, the first Mario game voiced by Charles Martinet

[Update: And I've just been informed that Mario was voiced in Mario Teaches Typing, which predates even Hotel Mario. The original 1991 DOS version used a different actor, but a 1995 CD-ROM re-release replaced him with Martin...

Tony Ponce

11:30 PM on 04.11.2013

Homemade Fallout Monopoly makes the apocalypse worth it

Despite my love of board games, I rarely get a chance to play any. My friends and the people I can occasionally stomach socializing with have little interest in sitting down and playing them with me, so I have to content myse...

Fraser Brown

8:30 PM on 04.02.2013

BioShock Infinite goes cardboard in The Siege of Columbia

The Internet is abuzz about Irrational's long-awaited BioShock Infinite. Amidst all of the discussion and praise for the videogame, Plaid Hat Games has announced BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia, a board game adaptati...

Darren Nakamura

4:30 PM on 03.26.2013

Play digital board games with physical DICE+

I love rolling dice. Gathering up a hoard of plastic polyhedra, rattling them around in my hands, spilling them on a table, and subsequently sorting through and interpreting the results is one of more satisfying aspects of t...

Darren Nakamura

10:00 AM on 03.18.2013

Be Jim Sterling in the Zpocalypse board game

Greenbrier Games' Kickstarted undead board game expansion, Zpocalypse Aftermath, is heading to stores around December time of this year. An expansion to the main Zpocalypse game, Aftermath adds new content -- including a play...

Jim Sterling

2:00 PM on 02.05.2013

The next Zen Pinball takes us to the Star Wars universe

There's not a whole lot of explaining needed when talking about pinball, unless you've been socially ignorant for the past forty years. There is a ball, and you must make sure that it doesn't fall off the board. Sometimes...

Abel Girmay

8:30 AM on 02.05.2013

New concept shots of Shadowrun Returns

The latest issue of Game Informer is making its way out and though the cover story has exciting news for RPG fans, it's the feature on Harebrained Scheme's upcoming Shadowrun Returns that has this tabletop player's heart...

Conrad Zimmerman

11:00 AM on 11.06.2012

Impressions: StarCraft Collector's Edition Risk

[Destructoid is considering adding board games (videogame-themed or not) to what we cover. Think it's a good idea? Want us to stick to videogames only? Let us know in the comments.] Themed variants of popular games like Monop...

Jonathan Ross

10:00 PM on 10.11.2012

IndieCade 2012 award winners announced

The winners of the IndieCade 2012 are a diverse group, the kind of groundbreaking games many of us would realistically never hear about were it not for the awards. Hopefully, you'll be curious enough to investigate further. H...

Jordan Devore

1:30 PM on 09.12.2012

Hungry Hungry Koopas, another Kodykoala masterpiece

Well damn, son! I didn't think you'd be able to top Operation: Guts Man Edition, but lo and behold, I am spellbound by Hungry Hungry Koopas! Donald "Kodykoala" Kennedy has worked wonders once again by taking a classic board g...

Tony Ponce

12:00 PM on 09.08.2012

The currency of Street Fighter Monopoly is Bison dollars

Earlier this year, we told you that USAopoly, the company that takes Parker Brothers games like Risk and Jenga and incorporates popular licenses like Spider-Man and The Simpson, was working on Monopoly: Street Fighter Collect...

Tony Ponce

4:33 PM on 07.12.2012

SDCC: Check out Capcom's $400 Street Fighter Chess set

At their store on the San Diego Comic-Con show floor, Capcom is selling this beautiful Street Fighter chess set. I don't play chess, but this thing is so fancy that I want one anyway. Too bad it's $400. Checkmate. This thing ...

Dale North

4:30 PM on 06.12.2012

Impressions: Rabbids Land is the Wii U's Mario Party

I remember picking up the first Rayman Raving Rabbids game when the Wii launched in 2006. While I had planned on buying Red Steel alongside Twilight Princess (a purchase mandated by Nintendo fan law), a negative early-mo...

Bob Muir

5:00 PM on 05.07.2012

Review: Battleship

Your name is Hasbro and you own the rights to a well-known board game, centered about guessing where the opponent's ships are. What do you do? Naturally, you let Universal turn it into a blockbuster marketed to look like Mich...

Maurice Tan

10:00 AM on 04.23.2012

Extract Guts Man's guts with Kodykoala's custom Operation

Hasbro has no problem whoring itself out to whatever company is willing to lend a license. Gone is the pot-bellied nudist of the classic Operation, discharged to make way for the likes of Shrek, Homer Simpson, and f*ckin' Ma...

Tony Ponce