In this section you'll find advance news, reviews, screenshots, and lots more cool stuff about the games that are making their way to your ipad/android/laptop/toaster (delete as applicable). At the heart of our VG section are the classic board and card games that are making their way into the virtual domain. Want to know how the AI plays in The Settlers of Catan for ipad? What the solitaire mode for Carcassonne plays like? Whether Ticket to Ride still has the same awesome feel as the original, and what expansions are on the way for Smallworld? You'll get all that and more.
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Wizards of the Coast have announced the upcoming release of a free Magic: The Gathering app for iPhone, iPad and Android. The Magic: The Gathering Toolbox promises to deliver a great bundle of utilities, absolutely free. Read more...
Magic: The Gathering Online, like its cardboard counterpart, continues to grow in leaps and bounds. One of the more popular MTGO Organized Play schemes is the Magic Online Championship Series, which has received a facelift for 2012... Read more...
Ascension: Return of the Fallen is about to hit the iPad virtual shelves, just in time for me to utterly ignore my family all over Christmas. In any kind of deck building game or trading card game, adding new cards to the mix radically changes many of the routes to victory. You'll see old cards less, every card has many new interactions to consider, there are possible out-and-out combos hidden away, and whole new genres of decks waiting to be discovered.
Have you ever felt that state “in the moment”, “in the zone”, or just been fully absorbed in a task? This is the psychological state of “Flow”, and flow theory is one of the biggest factors behind skilled game design. In this article I will explain the beginnings of flow theory and link it to our favorite activity: gaming.
A slightly unhinged Rich Hagon takes a look at Forbidden Island, a co-operative game of treasure seeking and repeated drownings.
Everyone's favorite tile-laying French farming game, Carcassonne, is set for a pair of expansions to its excellent iOS version. We know that virtual meeples just as fun as the real thing, and it seems we'll have fresh options in time for the holdays... Read more...
A blast from the past, as the iPad contrives to make you feel like you've entered a dream where it's 1993. A bad dream. Read more...
We know you're starting to make a list of gifts for your friends and family, so we've pulled together all our recommendations in this easy to use list. Happy Holidays from GameHead!
Paizo has just announced they have licensed the MMORPG rights for the Pathfinder RPG to Goblinworks, a new game development studio headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
The next digital incarnation of Ticket to Ride has been released by Days of Wonder... Ticket to Ride for iPhone or iPod Touch! Read more...
