Gus Mastrapa

In our second boardgame column, Gus Mastrapa looks at how rolling the dice has changed from Monopoly and Risk to Catan and Troyes.

We don’t normally associate collectible-card games with the NFL, but some recent new games and expansions draw out the metaphor. In our new column on boardgames and card games, Gus Mastrapa takes a look at the technique of deck building.

Adventure games are a genre that everybody has nostalgia for, but nobody plays. That’s because games like Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective feel old-fashioned compared to the open-world, massively multiplayer, online-all-the-time games we’re used to. Some detractors have even gone so far as to call des

After five years dedicated to the beautification of the boardgame, Mike Doyle found a new calling—Lego sculpture. It was this summer, on a trip to Legoland with his boys, that Doyle, a 43-year-old graphic designer from New Jersey, rekindled his passion for the building blocks. When he got home he s