The neighborhood I live in here in Chicago, well let’s just say it’s “up and coming” and it’s been “up and coming” for pretty much the entire 7 years that I’ve lived here.  During those years, it’s definitely been getting better and this year huge strides have been made with great new bars, restaurants and shops going in nearby including an upscale toy store!  The owner of the new toy store *Play, asked for my help picking out games for their target age group (8 and under).  Trying to pick …

Recently Buffalo Games posted a question on Facebook asking people how they find the games they buy and play – and actually I get that question pretty often.  A LOT I find during Toy Fair, some are sent to me by the manufacturers, some I have in my collection already and then the others come from religiously trolling around the internet looking for fun games to add to my collection.  Recently, I was looking at an old post about a Reiner Knizia dice game from Board Games With Scott (*See …

A while back I wrote an article about taking games with you when you travel (see here) and Nate Scheidler, Organizer of Chicago Boardgames Meetup Group, said that he packs a game called Pickomino.  Well, at the time I’d never played Pickomino and although I’d heard of it, I hadn’t heard anything about it.  This is really the reason I started The Game Aisle; I know how hard it is to decide which game to purchase when all you’ve got to go on is the box art.  So when a …