Board Game Book Club: The Expanse Board Game

Board Game Book Club: The Expanse Board Game

The Expanse Board Game In space, no one can hear you count Victory Points. Runtime: 60 minutes Players: 2-4 players Mechanics: Area-control, Trade Row, Variable Player Powers The Expanse Board Game is based on the SyFy TV Series of the same name. (which in turn is a TV adaptation of the fantastic Expanse book series by James S. A. Corey)…

Board Game Book Club: Nemesis

Board Game Book Club: Nemesis

Nemesis Who are you running from: The Aliens or your Shipmates? Runtime: 1.5-3 hr Players: 1-5 Mechanics: semi-cooperative, campaign driven, modular board, player elimination, variable player powers, light-deck building Nemesis is a semi-cooperative game with bluffing, backstabbing, and plenty of science-fiction survival horror adventure. The Goal: Find the failure, fix the situation, and return back to Earth all while surviving…

A PAX East 2019 Recap

A PAX East 2019 Recap

PAX East Recap In front a room full of 3,000 fans, everyone was ready to watch Randy Pitchford deliver his announcement of the highly anticipated Borderlands 3. What they weren’t expecting though, was the first widely released tabletop game in the Borderlands Universe, Tiny Tina’s Robot Tea Party, a collaboration between Gearbox Software, Nerdvana Game Studios, and XYZ Game Labs.…

Board Game Book Club: Dinosaur Island

Board Game Book Club: Dinosaur Island

Welcome to Jurassic Park Dinosaur Island! Runtime: 90-120 Minutes Players: 1-4 Mechanics: Set collection, worker placement, resource management, tile placement, drafting In Dinosaur Island, you get to channel John Hammond and play the owner of a Jurassic Park-like theme park. The Goal: Get visitors to your park by opening attractions and cloning dinosaurs. (Just be careful because those visitors might…

Introducing XYZ Game Labs’ Board Game Book Club & Root

Introducing XYZ Game Labs’ Board Game Book Club & Root

Check out our Board Game Book Club We’re starting a new series of blog posts called Board Game Book Club. As a team, we frequently meet up and play games together. More often than not we end the game with some discussion on our thoughts and opinions of the game. We obviously enjoy playing games, but as we’ve grown as…

Protospiel Madison 2018 Recap

Protospiel Madison 2018 Recap

I know we’re late, but here are some of the fun games we played at Protospiel Madison 1) Reject Squad: Super Hero Game “Reject Squad: Super Hero Game” is a 3-5 player, 30 minute, story-telling party game. In this game, one of the players takes on the role of a talent scout who is looking for a team of heroes…

International Games Day at Your Library 2018

International Games Day at Your Library 2018

Another year, Another IGD@YL  All over the country, libraries host a free, game day where children and adults gather around to make crafts and to learn/play the hottest, newest, and even classic board games from the Library’s collection. We love this event because it’s free, it’s in our home town, we’ve loved working with the Chicago Public Libraries by donating…