Letter Roll is a party/educational game from Out of the Box publishers. It’s designed for anywhere between 2 and 8 players and is listed for ages 8 and up. The object of the game is to list as many words possible containing three specific letters in a set amount of time. The letters are determined by rolling four letter dice, one of which is removed from play. The difficulty of the word is deter... more.

While Marvel has been scoring hit after hit in movies and video games like Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, both X-Men Legends titles, and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, DC has been lagging behind. And while part of DC’s holy trinity, Batman, has enjoyed great success in movies and animated shows, until now he has never appeared in a satisfying video game. Thank goodness for Paul Dini and Rocksteady S... more.

How do you make a PhD student feel stupid? Play Backseat Drawing! The game is produced by Out of the Box publishing and is designed for between 4 and 10 players ages 12 and up. Players team up and in each group one player must be the director and one the artist. The director of each team looks at a topic card, and their job is to direct the artist in drawing the topic. The challenge comes from ... more.

4th Edition has been out for just over a year now, and I think that at this point we as gamers should take a step back and really take a good, long look at the system. Naturally there were a slew of reviews when the core rulebooks first hit shelves, but those were based on beta-tests and hurried week-long campaigns designed with the specific purpose in mind of testing out the system, not to get to... more.

Josh: Before I begin this review I have a confession to make: I wasn’t much of a gamer when I was a kid. Boy, it feels good getting that off my chest. While other kids were honing their skills on Punch-Out!! or Secret of Mana I spent my time reading books, riding my bike, and in general doing things outside. Because of this my brother was the one who had the say-so in most of the ga... more.

As with most things originally geared for kids, in the United States video games tend to be marginalized by the mainstream public and considered low-brow and beneath the notice of serious people. This especially holds true for video game music. While movie composers such as John Williams, Danny Elfman, and Howard Shore have gained recognition for the quality of their work, composers such as Nobuo ... more.

There are times when you look at a game based on a franchise and wonder who in the world decided it was a good idea. Thankfully, this isn't one of those games. Based on the popular anime series Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex, this PS2 release allows you play two of Section 9's most important agents: the Major and Batou. The plot centers around an autonmous military research center the... more.

I have seen heaven and it is located on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. A week ago I traveled to Boston to present a paper. Thankfully a good friend of mine lives in Maine and he was kind enough to put up with me for a few days, saving me a king’s ransom in hotel costs, and during my stay we spent six and half hours one day at a place called Funspot. We started out bright,... more.

What sets apart us at Game-Journal.com from the other video game review sites (other than the fact that we are astoundingly handsome) is that we are practically all in graduate school. While this makes for a promising future, it doesn’t leave much time for sleeping, being with our loved ones, or playing video games. For the most part we eke out an hour or so once very few days just to keep ou... more.

Some of my fondest memories of college were staying up ungodly hours on Fridays and Saturdays drinking pop, Kool-Aid, crunchy coffee (don’t ask), and adventuring through my friend, Drew’s, mythical world of Phase. In addition to earning my Bachelor’s degree in English, I inadvertently released a dark vampire god, fought the forces of the undead, killed enough monsters and people to populate ... more.