Mark and Jake are the Gaming Moguls. We discuss aspirational board gaming topics for those board gamers that want to get deeper into the hobby. We discuss a variety of topics and offer our opinions and analysis of interest to enthusiast gamers.
Mark and Sobhi have a big announcement – MogulsCon 2.0 August 16-18 in Hopkins, MN! We also review games we’ve […]
Sobhi and Mark head off for the First Minnesota Muster – a weekend of heavy games, war games and train […]
The Gaming Moguls add a new co-host to the mix – Sobhi Youssef! We introduce Sobhi, talk about what we’ve […]
Time again for that annual lookback at Mark’s best-of-the-best. It’s probably the most pure list ever – since very few […]
Our favorite time of year is when we review our top 20 games of the year to see how our […]
Jake and Mark review a cabin gaming weekend and ponder why some cooperative games – especially some very highly rated […]
We’re Back! After a lovely extended summer break – the Gaming Moguls rip into Season Two. We spend the episode […]
It’s Moguls Unfiltered tonight – where we discuss our unplayed games in the BGG Top 100 and what we think […]
Jake takes his shot at listing his top 20 games of all time as of Fall 2021. We count them […]
It’s the holiday season again – that means it’s time to recap what our favorites are for the year and […]
Jake and Mark continue their homage to the great games of years gone by and why they are better games […]
Jake and Mark double down on the Old Hotness this week to discuss an amazing set of midweight games from […]
Jake and Mark have an episode chock full of game plays – and a shocking number of them involve a […]
Jake’s back and he’s got games to talk about. We run through the games we’ve played including Decrypto, Cribbage, Trade […]
It’s guest host time at the Gaming Moguls – we’ve got Craig Taylor from The Train Rush joining us once […]
We made it to Episode 50.. and we’ve decided to do a new “About Us” episode. We originally did this […]
Jake and Mark get back to business! We talk about all the great games we’ve played since the last episode! […]
In Episode 48, Jake runs down his top 20 games as of Fall, 2020. Big changes this year as we […]
It’s that time again – time to revisit the games that spark joy in the Gaming Moguls! This time we […]
Jake and Mark are back with an episode that looks into what it takes to ease people into the next […]
It’s a PLUS-SIZED EPISODE with fan favorite Craig Taylor! Ow. Ow! STOP PUNCHING ME! It’s all the games with the […]
Jake and Mark ponder as to which games would we keep if we had to winnow our collection down to […]
Mark and Jake are back with another Gaming Moguls podcast. As students of the game, they deep dive on their […]
Jake and Mark return to have some mid-summer musings about their gaming adventures during the month of June. They talk […]
In this plus-sized episode, we stretch out for two main topics. The first main topic is a deep-dive into system […]
No doubt about it – expansions are red hot and some games have a LOT of expansions available! The problem […]
In Episode 39, Jake and Mark talk about some of the ways they keep their gaming habits going during the […]
This is the 4th and last in our series examining the 4 quadrants of the Mogul Scale. This time we […]
It’s time to attack the “simple rules/deep gameplay” quadrant. Are these the purest games or are they too chess-y? Jake […]
In this episode, Jake and Mark examine the most controversial area of the Mogul Scale – the high rules, low […]
Simple rules and straightforward strategy? Not just the land of the party games and fillers.. hear Jake and Mark discuss […]
It’s been a great 2019 of gaming – Mark and Jake reflect on their year of gaming and call out […]
This episode, Jake and Mark welcome the third Mogul to the microphone – Dennis! They discuss the games they played […]
It’s been a year! 32 Episodes later the Gaming Moguls are still at it. We reflect on a few of […]
It seems like a lot of games are starting to bubble-wrap the play experience leading to low interaction and no […]
The Millennial Mogul gets his day in the sun to discuss his favorite games as of Fall 2019. Jake breaks […]
Who’s a fanboi? As Jake and Mark approach the one year anniversary of the Gaming Moguls, they revisit their top […]
“I thought that game was pretty tactical” – we’ve heard it a bunch so we muse on what implications a […]
We’re back after an awesome MogusCon ’19 and excited to talk about our experience hosting our first listener con. We […]
Jake and Mark welcome special guest Mogul Ambie Valdés from Board Game Blitz. This episodes topics include: our Goldilocks Game […]
Jake and Mark go after their Shelf of Shame and play a bunch of new small box games that they […]
Jake and Mark do a love letter to small box card games in this episode since they have played so […]
Mark and Jake return after back-to-back trips to GenCon in Indianapolis and MidSumCon in Chicago (a train game convention). Hear […]
Jake and Mark are back with more great enthusiast gaming content. They catch up on a ton of games that […]
Jake and Mark welcome back a repeat Guest Mogul – Craig Taylor from the Train Rush Podcast. Our main topic […]
It’s a quick special announcement with two bits of exciting news! MogulCon 0 will be held in the Minneapolis / […]
Jake and Mark welcome Dan Thurot – the writer at the gaming opinion site SPACE-BIFF! Dan writes some of the […]
Jake and Mark examine some of their favorite games that were first published more than 10 years ago. These include […]
Jake and Mark have a discussion about Euro games that are surprisingly thematic despite being somewhat abstract. They argue about […]
Jake and Mark have a discussion about running a gaming group and the issues surrounding how to run it, choose […]
Jake and Mark talk about our struggles with managing a gaming addiction and a gaming collection in a world that […]
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