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Announcement - New Digs 17 Jun 2013 | 01:16 am
Short Version: I am moving. http://drakesflames.com/ Long Version: I have been writing Drake's Flames since 2007, and have not updated the way the site looks in years. In terms of the internet, th...
Movie Review - Warm Bodies 15 Jun 2013 | 08:24 am
If you were going to mix two stories, a zombie movie and Romeo and Juliet would probably not be your first pick. But somebody went and did that, and it works ridiculously well. In fact, it goes togeth...
Party Game Review - Word Whimsy 13 Jun 2013 | 08:52 am
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the creators of Apples to Apples should be incredibly proud. Their stupid game has been copied so many times that it's starting to look like a good...
Bored Game Review - Dragon Rage 11 Jun 2013 | 04:20 am
I think Lewis Pulsipher must have a time machine that has transported his mind to 1974 and somehow left his body here with us. That's the only way I can explain making a game like Dragon Rage and then...
Board Game Review - Princes of the Dragon Throne 9 Jun 2013 | 04:32 am
Deckbuilding games have come a long way. We started with Dominion (and other games that lead to that, but this isn't a full-on history lesson), had Arctic Scavengers and Nightfall and Puzzle Strike, a...
Board Game Review - Cinque Terre 7 Jun 2013 | 08:08 am
I might as well get these Rio Grande reviews out of the way. There's one more to discuss, and then I can get back to not playing European games unless they come out of France (French people make aweso...
Board Game Review - Spin Monkeys 5 Jun 2013 | 09:08 am
When I started Drake's Flames, Rio Grande used to send me a lot of games. Then they stopped, mostly because I was rather disparaging of one of their games. Then, several years later, I asked them for ...
Card Game Review - The Valkyrie Incident 31 May 2013 | 07:26 am
In 1984, on a secret military base in Gun Barrel City, Texas, a crack team of scientists stumbled across a psychotically insane death's-head hawkmoth. As part of a program to develop a super-soldier c...
Board Game Review - Viticulture 28 May 2013 | 02:12 am
Every now and then, when I read the rules for a game, I get a pretty good idea how the review is going to go. Like, when I read the rules for Viticulture, I was thinking, 'I am going to be talking abo...
Board Game Review - Panic on Wall Street 25 May 2013 | 04:48 am
There are all kinds of board games. You've got your dexterity games, which generally mean you have to flick a piece of wood with your middle finger in an attempt to put out your brother's eye. You've ...
