Posted on January 27, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit: 8/2/23: A release date has been announced! Look for Stone Age to be coming to Steam on August 22, 2023. Don’t forget that you can put it on your wishlist now! Five posts in a week? It’s been a newsy week, that’s for… Continue Reading “Stone Age Coming to Digital From Acram Digital”
Posted on January 26, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit: 10/13/23) – Nothing big, and no pictures, but apparently the Ant-Man & the Wasp expansion is due out on December 6. ICv2 has also confirmed that Kang, Yellowjacket, and Ghost are the Masterminds. It’s not direct from Upper Deck, so maybe not? But… Continue Reading “Marvel Legendary Update – 2023”
Posted on January 25, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit 4/18/23) – and it’s now live! Go here to back it in whatever fashion you want. Received the exciting news from Board & Dice this morning that one of their great games, Teotihuacan, is getting the Deluxe treatment in April. In addition to… Continue Reading “Teotihuacan Deluxe Coming to Kickstarter in April”
Posted on January 24, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit: 2/28/23) – It’s out! I’ll be buying it when I get home so that I can play on my iPad and will definitely be checking out the season pass. Check out the review of the Early Access version to get an idea of… Continue Reading “Unmatched: Digital Edition gets full release date with DLC timeline”
Category: Apps, Board Games, NewsTags: 2-Player Games, Acram Digital, Android, Duel Games, ios, Restoration Games, Skirmish Games, Steam, Unmatched: Battle of Legends Volume 1, Unmatched: Digital
Posted on January 23, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s a brand new year and time for another adventure from the ongoing saga of the Combat Commander ladder. The ladder, run by the remarkable Patrick Pence of “Patrick’s Tactics & Tutorials” fame (you really should go check that channel out), is the only… Continue Reading “Combat Commander After Action Report – Scenario #67 – The Orient Express”
Posted on January 19, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s been a few months since my lost post about the monthly GMT Update! That’s not GMT’s fault. They do it monthly. I just haven’t had a lot to say about the more recent ones. At least nothing that really seemed blogworthy. How many… Continue Reading “Highlights From the January 2023 GMT Games Update”
Category: Board Games, GMT UpdateTags: 2-Player Games, A Gest of Robin Hood, Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East, Atlantic Chase, Away Team: The Voyages of the Pandora, Bayonets & Tomahawks, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Commands & Colors: Napoleonics, GMT Games, Inferno, John Butterfield, Justin Fassino, Levy & Campaign Series, Lunch Time Games, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, Red Flag Over Paris, Seljuk: Byzantium Besieged, Storm Above the Reich, The Barracks Emperors, The Last Hundred Yards, Time of Crisis, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea
Posted on January 16, 2023
by whovian223
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One of the common words I hear to describe some games with lots of upkeep is “fussy.” That’s when there’s a bunch of stuff on the table, you’re trying to keep straight multiple different abilities and tracks and hopefully you don’t forget anything. From… Continue Reading “Review – Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition”
Posted on January 13, 2023
by whovian223
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Wow, the second part of my Top 10 Games played in 2022 is being posted just a week after the first part. I’m already scoring a blog win! Last week I posted games 10-6 of my Top 10 Games played in 2022, and there… Continue Reading “TOP 10 GAMES PLAYED IN 2022 – #5-1”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Architects of the West Kingdom, Architects of the West Kingdom: Age of the Artisans, Architects of the West Kingdom: Works of Wonder, Ark Nova, Capstone Games, Chad Jensen, Combat Commander: Europe, Combat Commander: Pacific, Deckbuilders, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Mathias Wigge, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tableau-building, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 10, 2023
by whovian223
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OrcaCon is a convention held in Bellevue, Washington in January every year. Sadly, I wasn’t able to go last year and the two years before that…well, something happened. I’m not really sure what. I went to my first OrcaCon in January 2020 and then… Continue Reading “OrcaCon 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Alexander Pfister, Andrew Parks, Atlas Games, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Bluffing, Calico, Card Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Charioteer, CMON, Contracts, Core Worlds, David Fooden, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, Elizabeth Hargrave, Engine-building, Gizmos, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Kevin Russ, Lunch Time Games, Matt Calkins, Monster Couch, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Nick Little, Nicolas Robert, On Mars, Pearl Games, Phil Walker-Harding, Racing Game, Rondel Games, Seals of Cthulhu, Sean Epperson, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, The Bloody Inn, Thing 12 Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wingspan, Wingspan: Asia, Wingspan: European Expansion, Wingspan: Oceania expansion, Yukon Salon
Posted on January 7, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit – Now check out the Top 5!) It’s been a while since I’ve done a true Top 10 list. Last year’s Top 10 was rolled into my Top 25 Games Played of All Time. I didn’t play enough in 2020 to do a… Continue Reading “Top 10 Games Played in 2022 – #10-6”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Block Wargames, Card Games, Clank in Space, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, GMT Games, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Nick Little, Prodigals Club, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Borg, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Tile-Laying Games, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
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