Category: Board Games
Posted on November 19, 2020
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(Edit: 1/15/22) – For those of you coming to this one, I have a 2022 update that is definitely more up to date than this one! Look at what expansion goodness for Legendary Marvel that Upper Deck Entertainment announced yesterday! I was a die-hard… Continue Reading “Legendary Marvel Expansions for 2021”
Posted on November 18, 2020
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You know a game is old when I was actually still in high school when it came out. The classic deduction game, Fury of Dracula, originally came out in 1987. Now in its 4th edition and a game that many people love, it’s only… Continue Reading “App Review – Fury of Dracula from Nomad Games”
Posted on November 16, 2020
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Longtime readers of this blog know that I am an avid recorder of my boardgame play stats, using the wonderful Boardgame Stats app. I also love playing boardgame apps or boardgames online asynchronously. A few months ago, I got into a little discussion with… Continue Reading “Async App Plays and Recording Boardgame Stats”
Category: Board Games, OpinionTags: Alderac, Ascension, Asynchronous multiplayer, BG Stats, Boardgame Arena, Leder Games, Nomad Games, Root, Smash Up, Steam, Stone Blade Entertainment
Posted on November 13, 2020
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I’ve really enjoyed my couple of plays of The Pursuit of Happiness, published by Artipia Games. Designed by Adrian Abela and David Chircop, with gorgeous and whimsical art by Panayiotis Lyris, the game was published in 2015 but I missed it on Kickstarter. This is… Continue Reading “The Pursuit of Happiness – Big Box by Artipia Games on Kickstarter”
Category: Board Games, crowdfunding, NewsTags: Adrian Abela, Artipia Games, David Chircop, The Pursuit of Happiness, The Pursuit of Happiness: Big Box, The Pursuit of Happiness: Community, The Pursuit of Happiness: Experiences, The Pursuit of Happiness: Nostalgia, Worker Placement Games
Posted on November 12, 2020
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Welcome to this week’s edition of BGG’s Top 200 games! The series where I look at those games in the BGG rankings from #200-101, ten games at a time. Two weeks in a row? That’s gotta be a record. Things are actually looking pretty… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #140 – 131”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andreas Steding, Area Control, Bezier Games, Bill Eberle, Bill Norton, Card Games, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Cosmic Encounter, Days of Wonder, Deduction, Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Dice-rolling, Fantasy Flight Games, GMT Games, Hansa Teutonica, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Jack Kittredge, Jaipur, Jakub Łapot, Kevin Wilson, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Memoir '44, Nate French, Ora et Labora, Peter Olotka, Portal Games, Przemysław Rymer, Richard Borg, Roll and Write Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Space Cowboys, Stronghold Games, Suburbia, Ted Alspach, That's Pretty Clever, The Lord of the Rings: the Card Game, Tile-Laying Games, Uwe Rosenberg, Wargames, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on November 9, 2020
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One of my favourite Youtube boardgame personalities is 3 Minute Board Games, a channel that consists of quick and concise boardgame reviews (Editor – So, a channel that you couldn’t be part of, right?). Yes, everything you need to know in 3 minutes! I… Continue Reading “One of My Faves Makes a Game! Red Dust Rebellion from GMT Games”
Posted on November 5, 2020
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And we’re back from the long hiatus that I seem to periodically take, like, every month or so. I really need to have a chat with these demons that seem to get inside my head all of the time and keep me from feeling… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #150-141”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Awaken Realms, Captain Sonar, Card-Driven Game, Chad Jensen, Civilization Building, Cody Miller, Combat Commander: Europe, Eggertspiele, Einar Rosén, Far Off Games, GMT Games, Gord!, Inka Brand, Jakub Wiśniewski, Lautapelit.fi, Lunch Time Games, Markus Brand, Matagot, Michał Oracz, Nations, Near and Far, Nina Håkansson, Paths of Glory, Red Raven Games, Res Arcana, Robert Rosén, Roberto Fraga, Roxley Games, Rustan Håkansson, Ryan Laukat, Sand Castle Games, Santorini, Space Games, Tableau-building, Team Games, Ted Raicer, This War of Mine, Tom Lehmann, Village, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Yohan Lemonnier
Posted on November 4, 2020
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Just a brief post today because I saw something that I found very cool on Boardgame Geek and I felt I had to share. What is a micro-expansion? Micro-expansions are a set of cards or some other small piece of an already-published game that… Continue Reading “Alderac Micro-Expansions Looking Really Cool”
Category: Board Games, NewsTags: Alderac, Card Games, Cat Lady, Cat Lady: Kittens, Josh Wood, Lunch Time Games, micro-expansions, Paul Peterson, Smash Up, Smash Up: Goblins
Posted on November 3, 2020
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What is this? A “New to Me Games” post? This is the first since August! So basically skipping September. That’s what COVID has done to us. It’s not for lack of trying, but I have been so “not in the mood” to play games… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2020”
Posted on October 22, 2020
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Two news posts in one day? That’s what happens when two of your favourite app companies come out with news on the same day (yesterday, of course). Playdek announced yesterday that Labyrinth: the War on Terror will be leaving Steam’s Early Access and also… Continue Reading “Labyrinth: the War on Terror Coming out of Steam Early Access November 12”