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About Byron Campbell

Byron Campbell is a writer, editor and game critic from sunny Southern California. Not that he gets much mileage out of that famously fine weather; Byron spends most of his time indoors playing video games, geeking out over bits of cardboard, hugging his three-legged cat, and trying to keep up to date at theyearisyesterday.wordpress.com.
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The World on My Table – July ’15 (Gen Con Edition)
9 years ago

The World on My Table – July ’15 (Gen Con Edition)

By  •  Gaming

The News from Gen Con

Enough about me for a minute. Yeah, I played some games this month, but you don’t want to hear about that. You want to hear …
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The World on My Table – June ’15
9 years ago

The World on My Table – June ’15

By  •  Gaming

New game genres and subgenres are popping up all the time. Do you remember your first Room Escape game? What about your first 2056 derivative, or your first physics-based catapult …
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The World on My Table – May ’15
9 years ago

The World on My Table – May ’15

By  •  Gaming

Most board games are one-shots: whether they take 15 minutes or 5 hours, each play is a self-contained thing. And that’s fine. In fact, it’s sometimes a strength. One of …
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The World on My Table – April ’15
9 years ago

The World on My Table – April ’15

By  •  Gaming

I recently started a new part-time job as an educator for the Huntington Learning Center. After two years working from my computer, I was grateful for the whole spectrum of …
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The World on My Table – March ’15
9 years ago

The World on My Table – March ’15

By  •  Gaming

The World on My Table

While this has been a big month for tabletop game news (much more than I could fit into my roundup), it’s been less kind to …
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The World on My Table – February ’15
9 years ago

The World on My Table – February ’15

By  •  Gaming

The World on My Table

After raving about Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck-Building Game in January, I’m pleased (and a little relieved) to report that the game hasn’t yet overworn its …
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The World on My Table – January ’15
9 years ago

The World on My Table – January ’15

By  •  Gaming

As geek icons such as Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day have amply demonstrated, tabletop gaming is sexy like never before. A medium that was once synonymous with the tedious obligations of …
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King Down: Adventure in the World of Chess
10 years ago

King Down: Adventure in the World of Chess

By  •  Gaming

Tabletop game designer Saar Shai, whose double-edged card game of covert agents and secret missions, The Agents, won our praise in a review in May, has returned to Kickstarter with King …
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Boss Monster Is Infiltrating Tablets
10 years ago

Boss Monster Is Infiltrating Tablets

By  •  Gaming

Boss Monster Digital is coming to a tablet near you!

Fans of old-school video games and tabletop games might recall our effusive review of the Boss Monster card game last …
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Card Game Review: The Agents Mark II
10 years ago

Card Game Review: The Agents Mark II

By  •  Gaming

Last week, you were among the upper echelon of international intelligence agents. You had power, prestige, women (or men, if your tastes run that way)…and you had a cause. Then, …
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(P)Review: Jason Tagmire’s Storyteller Cards and SC: Fantasy
10 years ago

(P)Review: Jason Tagmire’s Storyteller Cards and SC: Fantasy

By  •  Gaming

When I heard that Jason Tagmire, designer of the retro-pixelly deckbuilding card game Pixel Lincoln, was doing a new Kickstarter for a fantasy-themed deck of Storyteller Cards with art by …
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Geek Haven: Blindness, Bruins and Numbers (0h My)
10 years ago

Geek Haven: Blindness, Bruins and Numbers (0h My)

By  •  Gaming

In just a few days, it will be April 1st, which as we all know is International Solemnity Day, so why not loosen it up with a few lighthearted gaming …
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