This week I welcome three prominent and distinct boardgame designers to talk about teaching boardgames. Rob Daviau, Jamey Stegmaier, and Phil Eklund help me untangle the complicated fine art of how to best bring your favorite boardgames to your friends.

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A Study in Emerald creator Martin Wallace joins the Quarter to Three Games Podcast to talk about the challenges of meshing Sherlock Holmes with Cthulhu with a boardgame, the hardest part of the design process, and whether we can expect any add-ons.

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Joel Toppen is the guest this week for a conversation about his fascinating solitaire boardgame, Navajo Wars. He reveals that it almost didn’t get made, he justifies its only supernatural element, and he talks a bit about his next game.

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Brandon Cackowski-Schnell, Tom Chick, Nick Diamon, and Jason McMaster talk about what they’re going to be playing in January, one of the best months for videogames such as Day Z, Rust, 7 Days to Die, Skylanders: Swap Force, or Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag. It’s even a good month for boardgames like A Study in Emerald, […]

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Tom Chick (far right) and Jason McMaster (center, wearing the crown) close out the holiday season with a very special tribute to the year’s best games.

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As the year winds down, Brandon Cackowski-Schnell, Tom Chick, Scott Dobrosielsky, and Rob Harvey consider 2013. What stood out, for better or worse, this year?

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Rob Harvey and Scott Dobrosielsky join Jason to discuss playing games on the crapper, with the clapper and maybe even a zapper. Rob gets in the zone, the Killzone, Scott ruins Forza and Jason gets high tech on the high seas. Tune in or perish, mortals!

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Scott Dobrosielsky joins Jason McMaster to talk about the shiny, new XBox One. Watching TV, playing golf, driving fast, killing zombies and savaging dudes in ancient Rome are on the agenda. We even talk about games!

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Brandon Cackowski-Schnell and Tom Chick welcome new contributor Scott Dobrosielsky. Together, the three of them share the excitement of three people with two new Playstations among them.

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On this week’s podcast, Nick Diamon and Tom Chick discuss whether it’s a good idea to rush headlong into an XCOM map just for the chance to cybernetically enhance your soldiers. That’s what Firaxis seems to want us to do. Also, Chris Hornbostel reveals the latest in The Secret World and Jason McMaster wields a […]

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