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It’s just day after day after day after day of great news coming out this month. Today’s monthly email from Jamey Stegmaier at Stonemaier Games contained another great announcement, hot on the heals of the Viticulture one. In what almost seemed like an aside,… Continue Reading “Kennerspiel Winner Wingspan Taking Flight in Digital Form”
It’s been a week of news last week, so why not start this week with another excellent tidbit that I can’t wait for? Shem Phillips, co-designer of one of my favourite games (Architects of the West Kingdom), has announced that an expansion will be… Continue Reading “Architects of the West Kingdom Getting More Stuff”
Fans of the Epic Spell Wars series of card games designed by Matt Hyra and published by Cryptozoic Games have another reason to be excited this Fall. Cryptozoic has announced the there will be a new deckbuilding version of the classic card game coming out… Continue Reading “Epic Spells Wars Moves into Deckbuilding”
Wow, it’s a busy week for digital boardgame news! First Through the Ages, and now Viticulture news! Yes, Digidiced (developers of many great digital apps such as Castles of Burgundy, Patchwork, etc) have announced that they are doing the digital adaptation of the Stonemaier… Continue Reading “Viticulture Coming to Digital via Digidiced!”
Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization, developed by Czech Games Edition for most digital platforms, is widely considered to be one of the best digital board game app out there. I have to say it’s one of my favourites as it’s almost… Continue Reading “Through the Ages expands through even more ages!”
July was vacation month. I was off the entire month and was away from my normal game group for half of the month. Thus, it’s not surprising that I only played two “new to me” games in July. But tell that to the rabble… Continue Reading “New to Me – July 2019”
The first day back at work after a month off is always going to be hard. I wouldn’t know normally because I’ve never done it until this month. While it wasn’t too hard to get back into the swing of things, it was kind… Continue Reading “Ascension: Delerium arrives on the App!”
The July vacation continues (what, you didn’t think I was avoiding posting for some other reason, did you?), but I couldn’t let this one pass when I heard about it. Raiders of the North Sea is one of my favourite games of all time,… Continue Reading “Raiders of the North Sea digital releases July 30!”
When I first bought an iPhone way back in the day (maybe it was 6 or even 30 years ago?), one of the first boardgame apps I saw and downloaded was the Looney Labs insane card game Fluxx. I know Fluxx gets a bad rap, and… Continue Reading “Fluxx Returning to Mobile Platforms July 18”