Paleo is a 2-4 player cooperative game in which your tribe is trying to survive the adversities of everyday life in the Stone Age. It can be played solo either by controlling two groups of tribespeople, or by following the rules of the solo variant. It is currently on sale in retail but you may need to ask your local store for availability. Each player in Paleo controls a group of people, and starts the game with two tribe members. The game also comes with different modules -

The year is 1962, and you are medical students working for the CIA. The Soviets have developed a bioweapon called project MEDUSA, and you must try to stop them from spreading this virus to the West. Z-Man Games just opened the pre-orders for the last game in the Pandemic Legacy series: Pandemic Legacy: Season 0. They don't give a specific delivery date, but if you want to secure a copy, you may place an order on their website. Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 is a 2-4 player coopera

The portable Pandemic: Hot Zone - North America is available right now, and timing couldn't be better. Fight the spread of a dangerous virus across North America. Try to discover a cure. Who doesn't want to feel heroic? Hot Zone distills the essence of Pandemic and feels exactly like the big games. You can even be very unlucky in set up and first card draw, and have three outbreaks on your first turn because of chain reactions. - It only takes four outbreaks to lose this vers

Pandemic: Hot Zone - North America is an upcoming version of the popular 2-4 player cooperative game that offers a smaller, quicker, more streamlined Pandemic experience. Release by Z-Man Games has been planned for this summer. This compact Pandemic has a small map that focuses on one region, with a limited number of cities. It has reduced the number of diseases to three, and features only four characters. Hand size is smaller, and fewer cards are now required to discover a c

Yule, as you may know, was A Feast for Odin in the old days. The eponymous board game has some special seasonal tiles available as an add-on, so when I played it today I tried to decorate my Viking settlement with them. A Feast for Odin is a thematic eurogame. You can produce and gather resources, go out to explore and settle, or even raid and pillage your way into prosperity. There are some 60 action spaces on the board, plus free actions and occupations to take. This means

A secret Santa from the 1 Player Guild on BGG gifted me Aerion this December. It's the third game in Shadi Torbey's Oniverse series that I own now, after Onirim and Sylvion. And it's a joy to play. You try to build six flying machines by combining a blueprint, material and worker card. You get these cards from a six-card market where every pile needs its own dice roll to unlock. For example two pairs, or three of a kind or 5 consecutive numbers. If you don't roll a right comb

Steve Kimball, the Z-man Games head of studio, announced on their website that the Survival series of Pandemic spin-offs will now bear the Pandemic System label. This mainly means one thing: that the spin-offs will no longer be limited editions. So far, the Pandemic Survival series consisted of titles that were products of collaboration between Matt Leacock and a designer from the country the Pandemic Survival World Championship took place. The popularity of these titles, how