Ziggyny's Game Emporium

Back before WBC this year I spent a week in Pounder's basement and we played quite a few games with Robb who was also living there at th...

Zeno was a Greek philosopher who lived around 2500 years ago who came up with a bunch of paradoxes that seemed to show that movement was a...

I am confused. Not as badly as last night, where I was confused, overwhelmed, and stressed out, but still confused. It's the sort of fee...

Yesterday I'd started thinking again about gender mixes in the Final Fantasy series. I'm playing Final Fantasy VIII which has an ev...

I was playing a game of Through The Ages in the 3 player league this week (against the Mons of Mons' Goblin Raiders fame) that had an in...

I've been thinking a lot the last few days about content which isn't properly tuned. By this I mean content that the developer think...

Something I've been mulling over for a while is "what counts as 'gambling'?". Does the level of skill matter? The leve...

I've made it to the final fight in Dead Rising 2 and the plot was interesting though short. It's obviously just there to force you t...

The second Battlestar Galactica board game expansion came out last week and it just happened to be New Year's Eve so of course it got pi...

I played a kid's game this weekend and thought I was quite clever in figuring out a way to get a slight edge. I ended up beating Andrew ...

Wizardry V was a game I had on the Super Nintendo when I was a kid. It was a 1st person view dungeon crawl style game where you built a part...

I used to play a lot of tactical RPGs back in the day. (Vandal Hearts, Final Fantasy Tactics, Suikoden Tactics, Disgaea, Romance of the Thre...

I'm the sort of person who believes there's a right way and a wrong way to do things. I order piles of cards in Dominion so every ca...

I find myself teaching board games to my friends quite often. This happens partly because I’m an anal retentive perfectionist and therefore ...