Costa Mesa realtor Valerie Torelli comes from a family of card players; her father was a successful handicapper (someone who analyzes sporting events to find an edge when placing bets on games). So, ...

Pickering, Yu and Perry played and designed games together from a young age. As Yu says, “I remember I’d go over to Jon’s ...

Let’s start with the Thorn Mammoth in the room, the biggest duelling game on the planet in the form of Magic: The Gathering. Despite being 30 years old, it’s still going from strength to strength. And ...

The Witcher 3 is one of the best-selling and most acclaimed video games of all time, yet for all the countless play-hours that have been poured into its narratives and subsystems, there’s one in ...

Dance of Cards is a sharp, if flawed, gambling RPG that is filled with some clever and downright risky design choices around its Poker-based play. Even with little interest in Poker, this game pulled ...

Small talk is near the top of the list of things I loathe, somewhere between cleaning my toilet and expressing my puppy’s anal glands. Given that it’s the way most first dates go, my distaste for—and ...