Anyone played any good board games lately? I've always been a fan of the idea, but it's just recently I've started any serious attempts at building a collection.
Castles of Burgundy is near the top of the list of games I want to try at the moment.
If you want a good idea of what a game is like in play,
Wil Wheaton's Tabletop is pretty decent. For a more varied review show, I tend to prefer
Shut Up & Sit Down, which doesn't go into the details of play as much, but has short episodes and has covered a lot more games. They also have written reviews on their
website.
As for game recommendations, I don't think you could go wrong with Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre (or just Epic Spell Wars), King of Tokyo, and/or Betrayal at House on the Hill (though it's probably the most complicated of the three). All of them are good for playing with both casual and hardcore board gamers. If you can gather a decent-sized group to play on somewhat regular basis, Zombicide and it's fantasy spin-off Zombicide: Black Plague are quite good (not that the game is too terribly complex, but playing well requires a good understand of the rules and a lot of tactical thinking, and games of it tend to go on longer than a casual player would probably be comfortable with).