Incredible that for my first project at @manticgames.bsky.social I'm working with Jervis, the creator of Blood Bowl and an absolute legend. I don't photograph humans often, but I'm proud of how this photo came out! #DreadBallAllStars ⭐

Gross, "The Discriminating Gamer" just gave a big endorsement to Werwolf, the knock off COIN game about the Nazi fantasy around throwing off the shackles of the allied occupation and restoring the Reich. Seeing wargamers react positively to a neo nazi propaganda work has been quite galling.

Season 9, I cannot believe this is up to season 9. What the **** is time?

Our channel still has the best music in board gaming. But there is a longer version of the theme song we've never used on the channel. I've kept it for one thing, and one thing only. To be my phone ring tone! It is so satisfying to have your own theme song, lol.

Today's video is our game awards for 2025. Yep, I actually wait until the year is over to give out awards, what a novel concept. I also do a top 5 and bottom 5 games I played in the year as well as spot awards for different things, such as best solo and best co-op game. youtu.be/vyExR9eGiSA

Tumeke @chaosium.bsky.social ! Paul Tobin giving you the local gossip I’m sure. @dungeonofthedragon.bsky.social might need to come visit Welly for this!

I had never seen a single episode of Columbo until last night. I watched a you tube video about the show, going in thinking it was another police procedural, whodunnit show. I was totally unprepared for the shows actual format and it legit blew me away. I am ordered the complete box set now.

What AI is perfect for. Taking things people love and making them into shitty, unfunny product placements for humourless corporations who think they are cool by association to the original thing that was cool. They aren't making their product better, they are just making Jurassic Park worse

You bet your ass I needed a new t-shirt. Art by the talented @kim-hu.com and bought through @aftermath.site

Red Dust Rebellion takes the COIN series to the Mars. Below I am presenting the game in details plus provide some tips on playing particular factions. Enjoy! Link: theboardgameschronicle.com/2026/02/01/s... @gmtgames.bsky.social @volko.bsky.social @maudineormsby.bsky.social @3mbg.bsky.social

New Zealand's domestically made WW2 tank is exactly what it looks like. A tractor with corrugated iron and way too many machine guns. 12 foot tall and functionally useless

I put very little thought or energy into the "alpha gamer problem" as a designer. There are a lot of such bugaboos that you can't really solve without stripping the life out of many designs. It's not my job to tell your pushy friend to shut up during your turn. That's a boundary you need to set.

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

You can spill a drink near a board game. It's not something you will want to do, but guess what? Board games can take it. Just mop things up with a paper towel and everything will be a OK. Don't ever use "But mah boardgames" as an excuse to deny your guests food and drink. That's being a dick.

If anyone has unsubbed from the Dice Tower and would still like regular board game content that doesn't involve God, Boots*, or the lionisation of fascist martyrs, I do have a patreon. www.patreon.com/c/mattthr *may occasionally involve boots

Progressive politics will never achieve anything if we hold back for fear of what the pearl-clutching conservative stooges of capitalism might say about us, not least because they'll bloody well say it anyway.

Pop up Nazi board game defence league account. Block em

We're just normal game reviewers. We're just apolitical game reviewers.

So, um, come back 3 Minute board games on patreon instead of say the Dice Trump I'm really, really unlikely to do a fascism, even by mistake! We don't extort money from publishers, not even once! I'm on no offenders registry in any country! Our channel is solar powered! www.patreon.com/c/u9257332

Today's video is a special one for me, it's just me unboxing my game Shadow Moon syndicates, looking at the expansion, the deluxe components and the art pack. I talk through the game and all its bits and bobs. youtu.be/yMuDeDHVODo

I've stopped doing kickstarter coverage for local NZ publishers, after one got me to do free coverage, I reviewed their game on a short timeline, got the video together, sent back the prototype and then "We are delaying the launch" It's been a year This is why I'm only dealing with finished games

Maybe he was supposed to say that the boot tastes like femdom?

NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut. My story looking at last week’s storms www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

What if the male loneliness problem is self-inflicted b/c lonely toxic males whiff on learning adult social skills, empathy, and the concept of platonic male intimacy, which is baked into the entire premise of board gaming?

Sam is quitting board game reviewing. "Someone posted on Facebook last night, “How’s that boot taste, Sam?” My reply is simply, “It tastes like freedom.”" Sam continues to claim God is telling him to be a bigot and that bigotry and fascism is Gods will. He is perfect ICE material.

A reminder of the character of Sam Healey. This is who he is, he makes no apologies for it either. Stop giving him and the organizations that promote and platform him anything. He will continue to do MAGA bullshit, its on you to stop giving him support and a platform.

Sam Healey once again failing a basic character test. He's an absolute millstone around the Dice Towers neck. I wonder if Tom will actually say anything about this or just keep pretending that politics don't matter in the USA these days.

In cheerful news, my advanced copies of Shadow Moon Syndicates arrived and that means backers should be getting notifications in the near future. Filmed an unboxing video last night, so exciting that my game is real!

I already skipped my plans to come to GAMA this year a while back. A decision looking more and more justified every day. The USA has a sign on its door saying "Foreign scum verboten" I reckon a whole bunch of us wont be back until that sign comes down.

Hundreds of videos later and the bassline in @3mbg.bsky.social openings still absolutely slaps youtu.be/lv7xPnLXxRw?...

Today's game is Last Will, an older game designed by Vladimir Suchy and released by Czech Games Edition. Last will is a racing game of sorts, you and your opponents are racing to spend all the money you have inherited. The person to spend it all first wins! youtu.be/lv7xPnLXxRw

Sometimes people do actually have to face the music for their extra judicial killings. Here's hoping for a big round of similar trials in the future in the USA. And I do hope Dutere lives long enough to get sentenced.

Something I've said for a long time is that race based superiority fascism can never succeed long term because people in those structures start believing their own hype. That they are actually superior and start planning accordingly. And that's when their "lessers" teach them a lesson.

Powerful statement from @zillablitz.bsky.social about what's going on in his home state, as well as other aspects of the world. It's things like this that make me proud to consider him a great friend. Thank you for this. youtu.be/FwWjbq4tm3o?...

Hey @octavianbgg.bsky.social BGG now has 30,000 ranked games! That feels like it should matter for some reason, lol

Incredible that Jones got off the paepae in one piece after inviting Kuini Ngā wai hono i te po to “go home young queen” and tell Waikato voters they should have been more grateful to him personally, for some reason, for past government funding decisions. Shameless, self-regarding pompous misogynist

Seems I need to roll out this video again. youtu.be/9eMtH7370xQ

Today's video is Undaunted 2200 Callisto, the first sci-fi entry in the Undaunted series and also the first one I've played. If you have been looking for a skirmish game, this is a very good one and it has other entries in the same series that include Stalingrad and Normandy. youtu.be/x38os1PUQa8

the woke mob is giving He-man pronouns

I ain't got time for reassurances when I'm explaining a game.

The perils of buying old games 2nd hand. (Seller apologized & refunded)

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

The 3MBG studio now features an upgraded drinks fridge.

I'm reminded again of my friend Lexi's superb piece in the spinoff in the wake of a pandemic era worldcon nominally held in Wellington. The tendency for those from afar to project fantasies onto this blank space that is in fact real place with give or take 800 years of human history is a real one.

Cool, this was a great show. Bizarre to see the comments on FB mostly being about not wanting a reboot and wanting a continuation, as if a show aimed at people in their 50s with a half dead cast of senior citizens wouldn't be the absolute drizzling shits. When did sci-fans lose their imagination?

The reason neo-liberal fascism will fail is that at its core, they hate people who do public service, even their soldiers and enforcers. The desire to screw over the public sector, even when they control it, is just intrinsic. They are wannabe Caeser's but they won't even pay their legions.