Hello Geeklies, and welcome to part two of the tabletop Star Wars GET HYPE GOT HYPE train! (I hope you got hype for Star Wars.) Make sure you check out part one (Star Wars: Armada) if you haven’t already seen it. In this installment, I’ll review Star Wars: Imperial Assault, Fantasy Flight’s tactical miniature combat board game. …

Happy New Year, Geekly Magic fans, and welcome back to Magic Gatherings! I’m back myself after a year-end hiatus and excited to get back to writing. I hope you didn’t miss me too much! (Please say you missed me. Just a little?) It feels like I start half my articles this way, but we already …

Guess what, everyone—there’s a new Star Wars movie that’s open in theaters! I know, right? It’s unbelievable that you haven’t heard of such a thing. We live to break the cutting-edge news here at GeeklyInc. In the spirit of GET HYPE, I wanted to review two recent Star Wars tabletop offerings that I’ve been seeing around …

Hello again, all you Geeklies who are fans of Pokémon and/or marriage! Last week Christina Ladd and I began our gender-tagged Pokémon journeys on Pokémon X and Y. This week: a deep dark forest! New Pokémon! And our first gym battle! Harry (Pokémon Y) I ended last article on the steps of Santalune Forest, so that’s …

Hello, Geekly fans! Welcome to a new feature, where a newlywed couple play Pokémon and blog about it. Christina Ladd and I recently acquired copies of Pokémon X and Y (those classic digital representations of the artificial gender binary), and we wanted to invite you all to join us as we discover a new Pokémon world. In …

Welcome back to Magic Gatherings! We’ve spent the last few weeks talking about Standard and how the cards from Battle for Zendikar have helped shape it. But the Magic calendar waits for no column, and there’s already have a new release on the horizon: Commander 2015, the latest in Wizards’ now-annual multiplayer precon series. I won’t cover every …

Welcome back to Magic Gatherings! Last column I introduced the Standard format. I wrote a bit about the requirements and spotlighted the new decks from the first major tournament that used Battle for Zendikar cards. The major question at the end of the column was whether Pro Tour Battle for Zendikar—which happened this past weekend in exotic Milwaukee, Wisconsin—would shake up …

Welcome back to Magic Gatherings! Last week I spent some time writing about archetype guides in Battle for Zendikar limited—I hope you all had a chance to get to a booster draft this past week! I made it to Friday Night Magic draft at my local store, Pandemonium Books and Games, where they hosted a …

Welcome back to Magic Gatherings! It’s that time again. A new set is around the corner, prerelease tournaments are this weekend, and I’ve spent the weekend crunching numbers to review the set for limited play. First we’ll review the major mechanics, then we’ll put it all together with some overarching thoughts about Battle for Zendikar‘s limited …

Hey all, and welcome back to Magic Gatherings! I hope everyone enjoyed last week’s trip down memory lane. This week, I’m back from vacation and we’re back to business: Battle for Zendikar previews have been rolling in for the last week and a half, and it’s time to start talking about them. This set is …