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Space-Cast! #47. Bun Bangers

https://spacebiff.com/2025/06/20/sbsc-47/

Published: June 20, 2025 18:35

Hot Streak! Off-brand mascots and gambling degeneracy have never been more in fashion. For today’s Space-Cast!, we’re joined by Jon Perry to discuss his mascot-racing board game, its connections to the digital collection UFO 50, and the particulars of…

Skyblivionrockmarsh

https://spacebiff.com/2025/06/19/tesbotse/

Published: June 19, 2025 21:08

Way back in 2011, Todd Howard let it slip that Skyrim would have “unlimited dragons,” dragging surprised reactions from the internet. Don’t believe me? Here’s pre-People Make Games, pre-Shut Up & Sit Down Quintin Smith’s press release on the matter. It’s…

She’s a Grisly Monster, I Assure You

https://spacebiff.com/2025/06/18/ichor-2/

Published: June 18, 2025 16:33

You know the story. Buncha monsters storm Mount Olympus. The pantheon is in a scramble. Who’s this coming to save the day — Hercules? More like Hunk-ules. Reiner Knizia’s Ichor isn’t Disney’s Hercules, and thank the gods for that, although Tyler Miles…

Let Me Not Then Die Ingloriously

https://spacebiff.com/2025/06/17/iliad-2/

Published: June 17, 2025 17:55

You know that moment in every ancient battle scene, whether in film or video games, where the lines have collapsed and now the burly infantry boys are fighting one on one, everybody mixed together and slashing wildly? Bonus points when two rival heroes…

Syke!

https://spacebiff.com/2025/06/16/sykes-picot/

Published: June 16, 2025 16:49

In 1916, at the height of WWI, two diplomats met in secret to outline the future partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. Those diplomats, the United Kingdom’s Mark Sykes and France’s François Georges-Picot, approached this undertaking with all due gravity and…

Gazing Up into Heaven

https://spacebiff.com/2025/06/12/galileo-galilei/

Published: June 12, 2025 22:00

Last year, two designs by Tomáš Holek marveled at the stars. One of those games, SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, has enraptured audiences with its thoughtful quest to discover life beyond our planet. The other title is Galileo Galilei, a…

Wet Behind the Gills

https://spacebiff.com/2025/06/10/tidal-blades-2/

Published: June 10, 2025 20:34

Over the past year or so, my eleven-year-old daughter Cate and I have tried a handful of campaign adventure games. By far her favorite — our favorite — has been Tidal Blades 2: Rise of the Unfolders by Tim and Ben Eisner. Not that Tidal Blades 2 is without…

Opera Is Danger

https://spacebiff.com/2025/06/04/the-battle-of-the-divas/

Published: June 4, 2025 18:46

Last year’s The Battle of Versailles was a revelation, treating the world of high fashion as seriously as combat, and in the process teaching me something about an art form I’d always regarded as frivolous. Here’s a piece of good news: apparently…

That Wizard Came from the Moon

https://spacebiff.com/2025/06/03/shackleton-base/

Published: June 4, 2025 00:56

Fabio! Lopiano! Truly, he has the most pronounceable name in the entire hobby. I’m something of a provisional fan, after being impressed with Merv but mixed on Autobahn and Sankoré, both of which proved too overwrought for their own good. Shackleton Base,…

Into the Woodland(ers)

https://spacebiff.com/2025/06/02/woodlanders/

Published: June 3, 2025 02:39

All I play anymore is trick-takers. Okay, that isn’t wholly true anymore. It seems the trick-taking bubble has, if not burst, levitated a few meters off the ground. Still, another title from New Mill Industries, this one designed by proprietor Daniel…

Stuck in the Midden with You

https://spacebiff.com/2025/05/29/skara-brae/

Published: May 29, 2025 18:53

The oldest known evidence of human habitation on the Orkney Islands, the archipelago off the northern coast of Scotland, is a charred hazelnut shell and some thousands of flint fragments, variously dated to either the seventh or eighth millennium BCE.…