Thanksgiving is here in the US this week. As major American holidays go, it’s admittedly a modern oddity, though not necessarily in a negative way. Unlike all the other top tier holidays here (Christmas, Halloween, Easter, the Fourth of July),...
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When you do anything long enough you will reach a natural point where you feel that you need to stretch your efforts in order to maintain the same level of passion and enthusiasm it once brought as a novice. At...
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Well, here we are. Today is sort of an auspicious article posting because it happens to coincide with several overlapping moments in the importance of this series, and to some degree, here at the CR as a whole. It’s a...
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As part of our October Spotlight on Kabuto Sumo, we strive to inform readers of little extra tidbits surrounding the game. Games are made by people, and one of those tidbits we enjoy is learning a little bit more about...
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As part of our September Spotlight on Aqua Garden, we strive to inform readers of little extra tidbits surrounding the game. Games are made by people, and one of those tidbits we enjoy is learning a little bit more about...
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One of the trademark elements to a game is that it’s played the same regardless of where you are or who are you playing with. That stability is essential for a game to be culturally shared with one another over...
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Editor’s Note: We’re off today in celebration of the holiday. In the meantime, and in light of our pending break, we thought it only appropriate to share the EDH article that started the Monday Magic series – which laments several...
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Over the course of this series, the one question I’ve gotten more than any other is about how I go about picking the specific cards to spotlight. I’ve mentioned this in passing in a past article or two but never...
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As a tabletop game, Magic: the Gathering is one of extensive renown and tenure, by all accounts a massively successful game for nearly 30 years. It invented what we now think of as a collectible card game and pretty much...
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The Cardboard Republic has rolled out the annual Laurels of the Republic awards, celebrating the best new games released in 2021 for each of the gamer archetypes. What follows are the finalists for one of those groups. The greatest moment...
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