Gau’s Gaming and Geekery: Dominion Review (2015 3/12)
Okay guys, I know I’m squeaking this month’s game review in just before the deadline, but here it is! This month, we’re looking at the game that brought me back into modern gaming, and one of the chief weapons in my arsenal to bring new players into the fold: Dominion! First released in 2008, Dominion...Continue reading
Gau’s Gaming and Geekery: Carcasonne Review (2015 2/12)
Hey everyone, happy Chinese New Year! Today, we’re taking a look at Carcasonne, for my second game review of the year! Carcasonne is a map-building, worker-placement game, and supports two to five players. Set-up is extremely simple: everyone chooses a worker color, and the starter piece (the one on the top there) is placed at...Continue reading
Gau’s Gaming and Geekery: Settlers of Catan Review (2015 1/12)
Hi everybody! For 2015, I thought I’d try something new. This year, I’m going to attempt to do one board game review every month, and to start us off, we’ve got Settlers of Catan! This was the first ‘modern’ board game I learned to play, and I was introduced to it here in Taiwan, back...Continue reading
Gau’s Gaming & Geekery: Love Letter Review
Hey everyone! As some of you may have picked up over the years, I am something of a nerd, a geek, whatever you want to label it. I love games of all kinds, from board to card to video games. So I’m starting up a new series offering my thoughts on the games I’ve played,...Continue reading
Review: Hercules
My summer of big-budget action movies continues with Hercules! The title character is played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, my favorite wrestler-turned-actor. Hercules features the titular demigod, but features a cast of other Greek worthies, though it’s hard to really say anything about them without going into spoiler-territory. The trailers that I’ve seen have done...Continue reading
Review: How to Train Your Dragon 2
Several of us ICRT Movie Crew (TM) members managed to snag tickets to the Taiwan sneak preview of Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon 2, and I’m pleased to be able to offer you this review before the movie becomes widely available! The main parts of this review will be spoiler-free, but there may be...Continue reading
Review: X-men: Days of Future Past
Over the weekend. a bunch of us here at ICRT went to go see the latest X-men movie: Days of Future Past! Prepare for my spoiler-free review! In this sequel to the prequel to the trilogy, we are initially introduced to a dystopian future, where mutantkind is all but extinct, and humanity is not much...Continue reading
Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel
It’s not every day that I’m tempted into seeing a movie just from a trailer. It’s even rarer when it’s for a movie that doesn’t fall into my normal viewing patterns. So when The Grand Budapest Hotel caught my eye, I was vaguely surprised at my own interest in the film. From the preview, it...Continue reading
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