Ghost-Hat Network

A review of the 1968 Sci-Fi/Adventure/Cult Classic "Barbarella" where we find out how you can make your R-rated film be PG forever because of loopholes.

In this episode Bill and Chris give Session Reviews for Seasons, Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game, Braggart, Innovation, Cards Against Humanity, and the iOS game Ra. Also gaming news and Wealth of Nations vs. Power Grid!

A review of the 1994 Action/Comedy/Fantasy film "Dinosaur Island" where force perspective dinosaurs attack a group of military men who find themselves on an island filled with scantly clad women!

A review of the 1987 Action/Adventure/Fantasy movie "Gor" where a ring teleports a teacher to a distant planet where no one knows how to speak clearly.

In this episode Bill and Chris give Session Reviews for Rio Grande Games' Hawaii and Elfenland, Stronghold Games' Panic Station, Repos Production's 7 Wonders, MindWare's Qwirkle, and Asmodee's Chromino. Bill's iOS game review this week covers Rio Grande Games' Lost Cities. Finally they wrap up their Session Reviews with Bill giving follow-ups to both Descent: Journey's in the Dark Second Edition, and Infiltration, and Chris follows-up on Trajan after a second play. Then in board game news they discuss the latest Wolfgang Kramer/Michael Kiesling game Die Paläste von Carrara, Vlaada Chvatil adds a fifth season to his Dungeon Lords universe with the Festival Season expansion, Nevermore Games tries recruiting Royal Astronautical Engineers via Kickstarter for their latest title Mars Needs Mechanics, and a streamlined successor to Blood Bowl is announced with Mantic Games' Dreadball - The Futuristic Sports Game. This week's Game v Game throws two of Uwe Rosenberg’s babies into the Thunderdome to see which one will make it out alive as Le Havre battles Ora et Labora.Will the French harbor master sink the devout Prior? Finally, in Bill's first One and Done, he lambasts a legend as he gets grumpy with El Grande. Let the hate mail begin. Preview of things to come: Join the CubePushers next week as they pit two games with unique economic mechanics against one another as Power Grid takes on Wealth of Nations in Game v Game. Then it's back to Chris' turn for a Guilty Pleasure as he wallows in worship of the world's most popular word game, Scrabble. Happy gaming!

A review of the 1974 John Carpenter Comedy/Sci-Fi film that's part ALIEN, part 2001: A Space Oddyssey and part awesome ending. The movie is no longer available for VOD on Amazon.

In this episode Bill and Chris give Session Reviews for daVinci's Castle of the Devil, Blue Orange's Spot It!, Mayfair's London, Rio Grande's Tobago, Fantasy Flight's Loco!, and Bill reviews the iOS game New World Colony, and provides an update to last week's take on Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd Edition. Then in board games news they discuss Rob Daviau leaving Hasbro, Asmadi Games and Carl Chudyk producing the Risk Legacy-inspired game Consequential, Days of Wonder breaths new life into their Shadows over Camelot franchise with a quick-playing card game version, Gryphon Games dusts off some old Sid Sackson journals to create I'm the Boss: The Card Game, Ryan Laukat launches his second Kickstarter with City of Iron, Asmodee announces their new line of kids' games, and we run down our most anticipated titles from Gen Con including Seasons, Netrunner, Merchant of Venus, Fortress America, and Mage Wars. This week's Game v Game features two hidden information party games as Werewolf takes on The Resistance. Will The Resistance succeed in their mission, or will the Werewolf eviscerate it? Finally in their very first One and Done, Chris takes on a Great Old One known as Arkham Horror. Will he keep his wits, or be driven to the brink of insanity? Either way, it will be fun to listen! Preview of things to come: Join us next week as the CubePushers throw two of Uwe Rosenberg's babies into the Thunderdome to see which one will make it out alive as Le Havre battles Ora et Labora. Then Bill lambasts a legend as he takes on El Grande in his first One and Done. Happy Gaming!

A review of the 1982 post apocolyptic film where all the bad guys fit into cliche cults and there's vampiric werewolves...no joke.

In this episode Bill and Chris give session reviews for Ammonit Spiele's Trajan, Fantasy Flight's Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd Edition and Infiltration, Ravensburger's Castles of Burgundy, Minion Games' Venture Forth, and Bill gives his impressions of Fantasy Flight's Elder Sign on the iPad. Then in board game news they discuss the Lair of the Wyrm expansion for Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd Edition, The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game "saga" expansion, The Hobbit: Over Hill and Under Hill, Memoir '44 getting its largest set of figures released to date in the Equipment Pack expansion, Minion Games giving you the ability to build rockets and H-Bombs in the Mega Expansion for The Manhattan Project, and Mayfair Games releases yet another version of Catan, this one in the Star Trek universe. In this week's Game v Game, a couple of co-ops with a dash of dastardly skullduggery go head to head, as Battlestar Galactica faces off against Shadows Over Camelot. Which one will get stabbed in the back? The CubePushers wrap up the show as Bill's game tastes take a turn for the worse as he presents his first Guilty Pleasure, The Game of Life: Twists and Turns. Can he actually make this updated mass-market classic sound like more than a dead end? Listen to find out.

We talk about reboots, the Olympics, math and...Power Rangers!