Power to the Meeple Episode 003: Pax East, Escape: The Curse of the Temple, and Theros




Power to the Meeple show

Summary: We kick off Episode 3 with our usual irrelevant, yet educational news about comics, movies, and the hobby games industry. This includes Chinese skeleton phobia, firefly's 3rd licenses gaming property, Uno newso. Escape: The Curse of the Temple is reviewed, with Space Alert and Robo Rally references. Then Jeff discusses his journey to PaxEast. This includes a review of Emperor's New Clothes, as well as his impressions of Krosmaster Arena, City of Remnants, Von Drakks Manor, and Magic 2014. JM and Jeff then discuss the upcoming magic block, Theros, after which a lengthy discussion of CCGs ensues, including topics such as the WoW TCG's innovations on the genre, Duel Masters, Yu-Gi-Oh,Pokemon, Kaijudo, and Cardfight Vanguard, and Hearthstone, also announced at PaxEast. JM and Jeff discuss their distaste and enjoyment of icv2's listed top-sellers of Fall 2012 in the following categories: Card/Building Games and Board games. Jeff then gives you his thoughts on Bioshock: Infinite. Beware of minor spoilers. Jeff also teases a future review of Motto Cuore!