The Best Year in Gaming: 1989

Last year’s stacked lineup of games for the Game Awards had us thinking: What was the best year in gaming? As part of our series on determining gaming’s best year, we’re putting together an article on each year, charting the major releases and developments of the year, and talking...

Content Guides

Warhammer 40K

Competitive Innovations in 10th: The Meta Adepts pt.1

Big events all over the shop this week, with blockbusters in each of the US, UK and Europe. The metagame continues to shift week-to-week - Necrons are definitely stalwarts right now, but this week the T'au are on the rise, putting their index through its paces a few more times becore the Codex kicks in. Plenty of other armies are making pitches for top spots and we've still got hilarious left field builds making it into showdowns and top placings. It continues to be a good time to play 40K, and...

Age of Sigmar

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Adepticon Top 5

Hello again! This past weekend was the world famous Adepticon in Schaumberg, Illinois, one of the largest tabletop gaming conventions in the world. There were multiple Age of Sigmar events, including the Championship GT. This week we're trying something a little different with our format. The only major GT this weekend is and due to the format there are a ton of perfect scores and 4-1s. Since there were 170 entrants and no cutoff, we're going to focus on the 5 lists that got a perfect score instead. The Showdown The Mission...

Columns

First Looks at Magic: the Gathering’s Outlaws of Thunder Junction

Howdy Partner! Y’all here from one of them Omenpaths? Dangerous folks have been moseying on in from out of town through those portals from all sorts of planes. Word is there’s a big heist going down, though what everyone’s after is still a mystery. If you’re looking to bring a little law and order to Thunder Junction or think you can strike gold out in the wilds, we’ve got everything you need to know to get familiar with the Outlaws of Thunder Junction. Everyone is flocking to Thunder Junction, a previously desolate and abandoned plane, to try and hunt down...

Magic the Gathering

Hobby

How To Paint Everything: Ahsoka Tano, Star Wars Legion

On the heels of finally completing the Disney+ show Ahsoka (I know, I’m way behind) and my enjoyment of both Marvel Crisis Protocol and Star Wars: Shatterpoint, I wanted to dip my toes into Atomic Mass Games’s Star Wars Legion, and I knew the first model I had to paint for my burgeoning Rebel force had to be Ahsoka Tano (aka Fulcrim).  I knew it would be a challenge after painting the larger scale of MCP and Shatterpoint for several months, but I was very excited about the challenge. After assembly, I primed the model with a coat of Badger...

Gaming

Competitive Innovations in 10th: The Meta Adepts pt.1

Big events all over the shop this week, with blockbusters in each of the US, UK and Europe. The metagame continues to shift week-to-week - Necrons are definitely stalwarts right now, but this week the T'au are on the rise, putting their index through its paces a few more times becore the Codex kicks in. Plenty of other armies are making pitches for top spots and we've still got hilarious left field builds making it into showdowns and top placings. It continues to be a good time to play 40K, and today I'll be covering: Adepticon Champs 2024 Firebug Open 2024 ...