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Boardom is the regular blog feature in which Mary geeks out on table top games.
Carcassonne was one of my own “gateway” games that got me into Euro board games and it remains one of my favorites. It’s an easy-to-learn tile laying game named after a medieval French town. You lay down one randomly drawn terrain [...]

Plants vs Zombies is a pretty easy tower defense game, as tower defense games go. But HOLY CRAP the difficulty jumps up at the very last level. I really want to beat it so I can move on to trying for achievements and such, but every time I try, I lose, get frustrated, and play The [...]

The Creeps is my latest form of Tower Defense addiction. I downloaded this iPhone game for free when I saw Nicole Spagnuolo of the great girl-gamer podcast, Ladies of Leet, tweet about it. For the first thirty minutes, my reaction was similar to that of Defender Chronicles. I hated the visual design and the game was too [...]

First Impressions is a regular feature in which Mary shares her -surprise! – first impressions of a game she’s been playing while she should have been making comics.

I’d heard a lot about Plants Vs. Zombies, but didn’t get this single player Tower Defense game until it hit the iPhone app store this February. I’m glad [...]

First Impressions is a regular feature in which Mary shares her -surprise! – first impressions of a game she’s been playing while she should have been making comics.
After enjoying the crap out of the iPhone tower defense games GeoDefense Swarm and Field Runners, I just had to try Defender Chronicles. It gets great reviews on [...]

A couple weeks ago I posted about my latest evil addiction: Bejeweled Blitz for the iPhone. I confessed my score was 63,050. Well, I’m happy to say that my score had improved to at least 115,000. I don’t know exactly what it was, because the score gets erased each week when the tournament starts over [...]

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