Category: Board Games
Posted on May 20, 2020
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With the previous post in this series doing so well, I guess I should do more of them and finish the job, eh? Last week’s post was a lot of fun and I got some great feedback. Thanks to those of you who stopped… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 90-81”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dominion, Donald X. Vaccarino, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Guillaume Montiage, Jacques Bariot, Jason Little, Jesús Torres Castro, Kemet, Mancala games, Matagot, Matt Leacock, Miniatures, North Star Games, Pandemic, Pandemic: Iberia, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Raiders of the North Sea, Reiner Knizia, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, Shem Phillips, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases, Space Cowboys, Star Wars: X-Wing, Stefan Feld, Take-That games, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tigris & Euphrates, Tile-Laying Games, Trajan, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Zman Games
Posted on May 18, 2020
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Recently Nomad Games released a bunch of new characters along with Legendary decks for the Talisman digital app (the base game of which is currently 80% off on Steam for a few more hours if you act now!) Today we’re going to examine the three… Continue Reading “Talisman: New Characters for Digital Game”
Posted on May 14, 2020
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It’s no secret that I’ve been in a bit of blog doldrums over the last couple of weeks. The social isolation and not playing many games (none until last weekend, actually) except the apps that I do asynchronously, plus getting really busy at work… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 100-91”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Adam Sadler, Alchemists, App-related, Bernd Brunnhofer, Champions of Midgard, Clank in Space, Clank in Space: Apocalypse, Clank in Space: Cyber Station 11, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Cranio Creations, Crossroads, Czech Games Edition, Daniel Clark, Dead of Winter, Deckbuilders, Descent: Journeys into the Dark (2nd Edition), Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dungeon Crawl, Fantasy Flight Games, Flaminia Brasini, Forbidden Stars, Grand Austria Hotel, Grey Fox Games, Hisashi Hayashi, Isaac Vega, James Kniffen, Jonathan Gilmour, Kevin Wilson, Lookout Games, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Matúš Kotry, Ole Steiness, One vs Many, Paul Dennen, Plaid Hat Games, Renegade Games Studios, Samuel Bailey, Simone Luciani, Stone Age, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Virginio Gigli, Worker Placement Games, Yokohama, Zman Games
Posted on May 13, 2020
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Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) just announced that the new card-crafting pirate game designed by John D. Clair is coming to Kickstarter this Summer. I played this game at Dice Tower West in February and really loved it. I love the card-crafting genre anyway (though… Continue Reading “Dead Reckoning from AEG coming to Kickstarter This Summer”
Posted on May 7, 2020
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And it’s discounted until then! I know it’s been a long while since I’ve posted. Apologies for that. What could bring me out of my blogging doldrums? How about the news that the hit board game Blood Rage is coming for Steam on May… Continue Reading “Blood Rage coming to Steam on May 27”
Posted on April 14, 2020
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Another day, another app post. One day, this blog will get back to face to face board gaming. But in the mean time, the wonderful folks at Handelabra Games announced over the long weekend that Spirit Island, the cooperative game where players are the natives… Continue Reading “Spirit Island Coming to Steam Early Access April 16”
Category: Apps, Board Games, NewsTags: Aeon's End, Bottom of the 9th, Cooperative Games, Early Access, Greater Than Games, Handelabra Games, R. Eric Reuss, Sentinels of the Multiverse, Spirit Island
Posted on April 9, 2020
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After yesterday’s Through the Ages app review (still on sale until April 10!), I thought I’d pass along a few other Steam sales that are going on for popular and excellent boardgame apps that you might want to try out since you’re as socially isolated… Continue Reading “Boardgame Apps – Steam Sales”
Category: Apps, Board Games, NewsTags: Ascension, Asmodee Digital, CMON, Czech Games Edition, Digidiced, Epic Card Game, Galaxy Trucker, Isle of Skye, Playdek, Sales, Scythe, Steam, Through the Ages, Twilight Struggle, White Wizard Games, Xenoshyft
Posted on April 8, 2020
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With social distancing and us isolating ourselves, apps are becoming even more important in our boardgaming lives. For the longest time, I’ve been referencing how awesome the Through the Ages app from Czech Games Edition is, but I’ve never actually, you know, reviewed it… Continue Reading “App Review – Through the Ages”
Category: Apps, Board Games, ReviewTags: Android, Card Drafting, Civilization Building, Czech Games Edition, ios, Steam, Through the Ages, Through the Ages: New Leaders & Wonders, Vlaada Chvátil
Posted on April 8, 2020
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Late last year came the news that Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) and The OP (formerly USAOpoly) were joining forces to bring licensed characters to the Smash Up universe. Finally, yesterday, the announcement came as to what the first team-up will actually be: Smash Up: Marvel.… Continue Reading “AEG & The OP bring Marvel Comics to Smash Up”
Posted on April 6, 2020
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Say that 3 times fast. I received an email from Board & Dice overnight with a cool new announcement! They keep coming with these things. Yes, it’s Board & Dice with another unpronounceable board game name (though the picture shows that they obviously don’t… Continue Reading “Board & Dice Announcement – Tawantinsuyu!”