Matthew Smail

4 days ago | bigbossbattle.com | Matthew Smail

Share Games like The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era don’t come around very often. The size, scope and scale of Chip Theory Games’ latest effort — not to mention the cost of producing it — speaks volumes about the confidence of the company, and perhaps more so of the increasing numbers of people who invest in their games.

1 week ago | bigbossbattle.com | Matthew Smail

Share War has never been a particularly lightweight topic, but it remains an important one. Human beings are fascinated by conflict and as a result, the global wars of the 20th Century remain some of the most popular themes for both board and video games in equal measure.

1 week ago | bigbossbattle.com | Matthew Smail

Share I first became interested in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream about ten years or so ago when it had its first re-release on Steam (having originally been released almost thirty years ago on MS-DOS).

1 week ago | bigbossbattle.com | Matthew Smail

Share It’s been a long time since the first Crossroads game — Dead of Winter — was released. Since then, this choose your own adventure style system has been through a number of iterations, with settings that feature living toys, anamorphic animals and quite a few other diverse settings.

2 weeks ago | bigbossbattle.com | Matthew Smail

Share It seems completely natural — excuse the pun — for board games to use natural history as a theme. The slow pace, the thematic concepts and the general appeal of animals and nature just seems to be a great fit for the medium. But what happens when you take the ideas associated with evolution and apply them to alien species?