Unboxed the Board Game Blog

I can clearly remember the cheers of joy when the partnership between #FantasyFlightGames and #GamesWorkshop was announced, just as clearly as I can remember the wailing and the gnashing of teeth now that it has all come to a crashing end. For nigh on a decade #FFG has been producing quality titles under the Games Workshop banner and in this post Mike Barnes from Who Dares Rolls and I will talk about our three favourites and just how much we're going to miss them. To start us off, here's Mike.

We’ve all bought things based on impulse, without prior research, without diligently doing our due and sometimes we’ve lucked out and other times we’ve ended up eating a hamburger called The Elvis because we like strawberry jam and peanut butter.

For the last 7 years I have been attending the UK Games Expo as a member of the press with the UK Gaming Media Network. In that time I have watched the convention grow from a small hotel to a convention hall with a full sized double decker bus in it and room to stack three more on top of it and twenty more either side! As the convention has grown things have changed, not just the size and scope of the convention but the intangible elements that were tied to those quaint more intimate venues.