Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is a Japanese RPG for the Nintendo DS. It takes place between Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2, and its story runs concurrently with the events from Kingdom Hearts: Chains of Memories. It focuses on the happenings within Organization XIII from the viewpoint of Roxas ( Read more... )

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Cards Against Humanity at Board Game GeekCards Against Humanity is a party game for four or more people. One person is designated the Card Czar, and turns over a black card that has a fill-in-the-blank phrase. The players all have white answer cards, and must choose a card that will complete that blank, ( Read more... )

The premise is simple: the King of All Cosmos got drunk and wiped out the stars in the sky, so he tasks his son the Prince with re-creating them. This is done by rolling a Katamari (a giant sticky ball) around, gathering up items until the katamari grows large enough to become a star ( Read more... )

Cocoon hangs in the sky above Gran Pulse. The people of Cocoon treat all things Pulse with suspicion and fear. When a Pulse Vestige is found near a village on Cocoon, the government reacts by ordering a Purge of all the village’s inhabitants, exiling them to Pulse. Serah, Lightning’s sister, had wandered into the Vestige, and was made a Pulse L’Cie ( Read more... )

Gloom at Board Game GeekGloom is a card game for 2-4 players. Each player takes control of a family of characters. The goal of the game is to make your family as miserable as possible while making your rivals' families as happy as you can. You do this by playing three different types of cards on a turn: modifier cards, event cards, and untimely ( Read more... )

Cribbage is a card game for two players. Points accumulate so fast in Cribbage that it is played with a special board. The board has holes and two pegs per player; the pegs are jumped over one another as points are scored ( Read more... )

This week features a casual video game I've been spending a lot of time with lately. Picross is a puzzle game for the Nintendo DS. You are presented with a blank grid, and need to fill in the grid using the clues located along the top and left of the grid. For example, a clue of "5 1" means that there are five squares in a row filled in, ( Read more... )

Castle Panic at Board Game GeekCastle Panic is a collaborative board game for 1-6 players. Rather than have the players against each other, players work together to try to beat the game itself ( Read more... )

Lara Croft can give the athletes on American Ninja Warrior a run for their money. She can traverse all sorts of terrain, glide down zip lines, hang by her fingertips, and climb sheer rock walls using only an axe. She's also quite deadly; she's able to kill using a bow and arrows, a shotgun, a revolver, or her handy axe ( Read more... )

Citadels at Board Game GeekCitadels is a game of medieval cities, nobles, and intrigue. It’s for 2 to 7 players. Each round you secretly choose the role of a noble. There are eight nobles in the basic game: (1) Assassin; (2) Thief; (3) Magician; (4) King; (5) Bishop; (6) Merchant; (7) Architect; and (8) Warlord. Turns are taken in that order once ( Read more... )