Game Preview: League of Hackers, or Sorry, No Angelina Jolie Here

Game Preview: League of Hackers, or Sorry, No Angelina Jolie Here
Board Game: League of Hackers
My experience with computer hacking is pretty much limited to me being sent a new bank card every six months because my account number might have been compromised in this or that security breach. That said, I am of course aware of hacking as a thing and have seen countless entirely realistic situations in movies in which people sit down in front of unfamiliar computers and disgorge exactly the right data that they need to discover or they network into some big business' mainframe by rejiggering the framistan, which then allows them to adjust the thermostats in corporate headquarters to an uncomfortably warm temperature.

With all of that mind, I gave Desnet Amane's League of Hackers from his own Moaideas Game Design a try to see whether it could live up to such accurate depictions of computerized nefariousness:

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