Aaron’s Games Played Digest – August 2015
I’m hoping to do these digests monthly, although this took me way longer to write than July’s since I had a break of 2 weekends without board games in July […]
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The Action Points Podcast! Episode 86: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and Matt Dunstan
In this episode: I interview Matt Dunstan, designer of Relic Runners, and co-designer of Empire Engine and (Kennerspiel 2015 nominee!) Elysium. We talk about the different board game design communities […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 78: Ask Adam Anything
In this episode: It’s time for another podcast host interview! This time Adam takes the hot seat as we quiz him about anything that comes to mind: Malaysia, his TED […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 69: 2014 Recap
In this episode: We get the band together again to fight for the freedom of gerbils everywhere. Or we just got together one afternoon and chatted about stuff that we […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 65: Shooting Kewpie Mayo Everywhere is Dangerous
In this episode: Now that we’re done with PAX on the podcast, it’s time to talk about things that aren’t videogames. So we talk about some videogames. Damn. We chat […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 62: Couching Trigger, Hidden Drag-and-Drop
In this episode: We haven’t had an episode without a guest for while, so we get rambly as we talk about some couch multiplayer games that we’ve been playing. Evan […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 56: Smashing Hedrons with Jason Kotzur-Yang
In this episode: We speak with Brisbane-based board game designer and host of the Tablepop podcast, Jason Kotzur-Yang. We talk about his design process and setting goals for Hedron (successfully […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 54: Gencon, Godzilla Games and Gamer Bling with Andre Bishop
In this episode: We chat with Andre Bishop of Campaign Coins and Godzilla Games at Izakaya Chuji about RPGs, board games from GenCon, gamer bling, mahjong and Japan (the entire […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 53: In the Lab with James and Shayne
In this episode: Aaron and Adam went down to favoured local gaming haunt, Games Laboratory, and had a chat with owner James and events wizard Shayne about running a game […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 47: Allen and Alistair’s Rise to Power
In this episode: We have a chat with Allen Chang and Alistair Kearney from Rule & Make to discuss their successfully funded Kickstarter for the Rise to Power board game, […]
Running the Nets: Upstalk review
We kick off the Lunar cycle with a stellar new pack (hur, hur) serving up a whopping two new identities and a few potential game-changers. Let’s strap a rocket to […]
Running the Nets: Sneaky Thiefses
With the release of Honor and Profit (my copy taking its sweet time to finally arrive here in Oz) I finally had the pieces I needed to try out my […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 42: Zeerust Sci-Fi and Swimming Spies
In this episode: Retro sci-fi! Naked swimming clubs! Rubbing anime girls! Wartime detectives! In this episode, Aaron reviews some comic books, Evan watches old anime and plays bullet hell doujin […]
Running the Nets: Dumpster Diving
This is the first in a series of posts I’ll be writing about the terrific game Netrunner that you should be playing right this very instant, and how I go […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 31: 2013 Recap
In this episode: We take a moment (or hour) to reflect on geek culture/media from the past year. Our hosts Aaron, Daniel, Evan and Adam discuss their favourite video games, […]
2013 Recap – Favourite Board Games
2013 was a great year for board games. There were multiple standouts in the casual and hardcore strategy board game categories. It also marked a crazy period of expansion in […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 25: The Toilet Humour Contrivance
In this episode: This is probably our most self indulgent and slightly incoherent episode. I swear to you it was my hayfever meds. Also, because I’m a massive ass. At […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 24: Horse Master Korra Batman CCG
In this episode: We talk about Batman, Ponies, Horses, Horse Mastery, and some superhero themed board games. Note: Massive spoilers for Horse Master. Lots of talk about horses, Magic: the […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 20: Pacific Rim and the Dice Tower Awards
In this episode: We discuss the joys of Pacific Rimming. Daniel gets very upset by fake Aussie accents. We all discuss our pooping habits at length. We get our anime […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode 16: Origins Awards and Expansions
In this episode: We discuss some of the winners of the 39th Origins Awards and look at some board game news coming out of the convention, mostly information relating to […]
Board Games Recap: October 2012 – April 2013
It’s been quite a while since I’ve done a weekend gaming recap or written pretty much anything solely board game related. In fact, the last six months have been really […]
The Action Points Podcast! Episode Epsilon
Hey all! We’re back after a long hiatus. Sorry, lots of IRL stuff got in the way and also I was just lazy (Bad Aaron). This episode was actually recorded […]
