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SaltCon 2015: Flash Point: Fire Rescue
Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a delightfully elegant cooperative board gaming experience. The players take on the role of a specialist in a team of firefighters who must save as many people as possible from being burned to death in a house fire. … read more
SaltCon 2015: EAE Showcase
At the far end of the exhibit hall, a couple of student teams from the University of Utah’s EAE program had set up game demos. … read more
SaltCon 2015: Cthulhu Wars
As a game, Cthulhu Wars follows the Risk template of conquering the world bit by bit, except instead of raising armies to fight nobly on the field of battle, you’re summoning Elder Gods and their wretched spawn to corrupt and conquer the Earth. … read more
SaltCon 2015: Villages
I have a personal weakness for board games with pixellated video game art, and Villages capitalized on that weakness immediately. … read more
SaltCon 2015: Eight-Minute Empire
This wonderful board game both designed and illustrated by Ryan Laukat is a quick strategy game that is as challenging as it is beautiful. … read more
SaltCon 2015: Artemis
Artemis was unlike any game I’ve ever played before. It wasn’t a tabletop game, but it definitely catered to that small niche in the gaming community. … read more
X96 FanX Red Carpet Party
Friday night was the FanX Red Carpet Party, taking place in the Salt Palace west lobby. Fans enjoyed drinks and dancing with their fellow nerds. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Don Verdean
Don Verdean is a biblical scholar and archaeologist who has built his career on excavating and preserving artifacts from the good book—the film’s opening scene features an antiquated documentary in which Verdean tracks down the shears that Delilah used to cut Samson’s hair. … read more
Billie of All Trades: Billie Piper
Billie Piper looked like she stepped out of the pages of Tiger Beat circa 1993. With a blue flannel shirt, overalls, fingerless gloves, spats and her hair in a messy top knot bun, she is the epitome of not-giving-a-damn and I love it. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Wendell and the Lemon
Wendell (Todd D’Amour) picks up the lemon on the street, shortly after a breakup, and he quickly incorporates the lemon into his daily routine. He’s cast as a sort of neurotic, overly anxious character, also adopting an eye patch to cover a twitching eye—though he can’t remember which eye has the problem.
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