Author Archives: Shep

February Travels

Pancake day. We stayed a bit closer to home for Shrove Tuesday this year. In previous years we’ve travelled the country in search of mass-participation football games and world-class pancake races. This year we just popped down to Scarborough for … Continue reading →

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Newcastle Gamers, 9th February

The power of the written word is indeed mighty! So mighty, in fact, that when I recently wrote that I still hadn’t managed to play the hot-new-thing-of-this-time-last-year — Eclipse — Olly promptly offered to fix that for me at the … Continue reading →

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Guilty Gaming Pleasures: Space Hulk Death Angel

“So I do a bit of ameritrash. It’s OK. I can handle it”… It’s Richard Ham’s fault. He makes a series of boardgame videos, which I enjoy watching. To be honest, they’re a bit longer than I’d prefer, and the … Continue reading →

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Video Frenzy

I’ve been on a video-editing binge over the last couple of days… mostly because I’ve had about 50 gig of footage sitting on my main drive — taunting me — for the last 6 months or so … and also … Continue reading →

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2012 Board Gaming review…

We’re almost into February already, so if I don’t scribble this down now it’ll never get done. Therefore… herewith and within: a few random thoughts on my boardgaming exploits of the last 12 months 🙂 My most-played board game of … Continue reading →

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