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The Big Advantage Horror Board Games Have Over Other Spooky Media

Hey!  Sorry it's been a while since my last post.  Between the holidays, general life, being sick, etc... it's been a long month.  Also, sorry that this isn't Star Wars related, but with TLJ coming out in the next few weeks I assure you I'll have plenty more Star Wars content in December- including, finally, a gallery of all my painted stuff. Now, let's get down to business- and honestly, this article would've been way more appropriate a month ago, but whatever.   One thing I've thinking about since Halloween time is the nature of horror.  See, from what I can tell, the big obstacle that horror films typically have is that they are meant to illicit only one emotion: fear.  Or, rather, that's the only expectation that fans have going into a horror film, when reading a scary story, or when playing a horror video game.  "Fear" is almost synonymous with "horror", and that rush of adrenaline is why some of us like the genre while

3 720 to 1: When Have Star Wars Games Been Most Popular?

Imperial Assault seems to be going through a slowed release cycle after what seemed to be a reliable 1 Big Box/1 Small Box/ Handfull of Blister Waves annual trend.  And ultimately, like almost all games, it will eventually die. But is it there yet?  Has interest in this dungeon crawler/skirmish game waned so badly that it's no longer popular enough to be justified as supported? I decided to take a look at search engine trends to see how popular Imperial Assault seems to be in general, and to see if its popularity seems to be on its way out.  Greanted, this is a relatively simplistic view of the process as I'm only really looking at a single search item term (Star Wars Imperial Assault) on a single search engine (Google), but I think this can still show us at least the general shape of the issue at hand.  I'm hardly a statistics person, but if you want to see me continue on wild conclusions based on graphs, you're in the right place. What you see here is a g