Author: Demian Katz

Invisible City Productions has struck again with the 35th free game of the month. This time around it’s Bonga Bonga, a simple game played with a bouncy ball and any flat surface. It’s extremely simple in concept and it manages to avoid being entirely competitive or cooperative, but it involves

Wayne Densley’s Chronicles of Arborell online gamebook series seems to be doing quite well. Although the second volume of the adventure, the reportedly massive Earth and Stone, is still not yet complete, the original volume, Windhammer, has been receiving quite a bit of attention. It is now a permanent part

The Penny Games has just posted the rules to WordSnake, a new game for use with their Alpha Playing Cards. The game allows two to five players to simultaneously build words using their hands and a common pool of extra letters. If you like Scrabble but hate waiting for your

Not too surprisingly, Rio Grande Games has a respectable number of products listed in the Games 100 list from Games Magazine. They were so proud that they immediately released a new newsletter even though they don’t seem to have any other news (the game descriptions are the same as the

Once again, I wish I could read Italian. Gaming guru Andrea Angiolino and aerospace historian Gregory Alegi have teamed up to write Il Gobbo Maledetto (“The Damned Hunchback”). In this solitaire World War II gamebook, the reader gets to take control of a Siai Marchetti S.79, the unusual-looking plane nicknamed

It looks like Deep7‘s 1PG line is finally getting some competition. ThreeSixty Publishing will be releasing Armada X, the first of their OneShot Mini-Adventures, next month. The 15-page game, a space opera inspired by the American Revolution, will feature point-based character creation, several fast-playing, non-campaign-oriented scenarios, and (perhaps best of

Firefly Games announced this week the sequel to their giant monster battle game, Monster Island. The sequel, Escape from Monster Island, features more rules for smashing cities, crushing the puny military and generally being large, radioactive and grumpy. You can take a look at the cover and some more information

In my Monsternomicon review, I suggested that it might be useful to have a list of Monster Manual monsters that fit into the Iron Kingdoms campaign setting. It looks like Privateer Press agrees, as they now have just such a list in their support documents section. While you’re in the

Invisible City‘s latest free game of the month is a fast-paced, two-player paper and pencil game which works like a cross between Minesweeper and Battleship. Each player marks a treasure chest and several bombs on a sheet representing a cube. Players then take turns moving on a common board, trying

Deep7 has just released the second supplement to its film noir RPG, Mean Streets. In Concrete Jungle, a 44-page .PDF file selling for $5.95, GMs will learn everything they ever needed to know about the people, places and past of New York City. Considering how interesting the brief New York

The latest newsletter from Rio Grande Games reports some interesting developments. Forthcoming games include The Bucket King, a strategy game in which players build pyramids out of buckets and knock their opponents’ pyramids down with farm animals (!); Hellas, a game of power struggles in ancient Greece; and Odin’s Ravens,

Invisible City Productions‘ latest free game of the month is here. It’s a neat little Rummy/Dominoes hybrid called Pokino. The game is played using double-12 dominoes, a Poker deck and lots of tokens, and two or more players can participate. The rules also include numerous variants, so once again, you’ll