The best board games to play during load-shedding
Hello, darkness, my old friend… while South Africa is in the grips of dreaded Eskom load-shedding, we thought you could use some ideas on passing the time until the power is back
Help fund the 2nd Edition of the Africa Boardgame Convention
The Africa Boardgame Convention is about community building and breaking down harmful stereotypes. Help fund the second edition of ABCon on Indiegogo.
Come to The Nexus on Sunday for Board Games & Milkshakes
Boardgames, milkshakes, and spending time with friends. What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon?
And our ICON BY the Sea competition winner is…
It's just seven days to go until ICON By the Sea 2017, Durban's premier tabletop gaming and comic convention. Who won in our event-related competition, and scored themselves a set of weekend passes?
Rising Sun Kickstarter raises over $2 million in a week
Board games with lots of fancy miniature figures seem to do exceedingly well on Kickstarter. Having already smashed its $300,000 goal in the first week, Rising Sun is currently sitting on over $2 million raised, with three weeks left on the clock.
Monopoly is letting the internet decide what they should change their tokens to
Monopoly are looking to change their classic tokens, and it's going to be up to the internet to choose. What could possibly go wrong?
Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: board games as movies
This may come as a shock (especially to Kervyn who’s probably going to fire me now) but, despite what I claimed otherwise to land this gig, movies and TV aren’t my biggest passion (sorry Kerv). That honour really belongs to board games. So news like Warner Brothers landing a director for a Dungeons and Dragons movie obviously interests me a …
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