Category: Board Games

Posts about board games

Epic Spells Wars Moves into Deckbuilding

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”

Viticulture Coming to Digital via Digidiced!

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 expands through even more ages!

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!”

New to Me – July 2019

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”

Ascension: Delerium arrives on the App!

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!”

Raiders of the North Sea digital releases July 30!

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!”

Fluxx Returning to Mobile Platforms July 18

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”

New to Me – June 2019

June was a very slow month for new to me games. Only two! And one expansion. Man, were they great ones, though. The expansion is to my favourite game of all time (at least for now) and I got another COIN game in! I… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2019”

Review – Deus

Some days you just want to stay in bed. And some days, you want to go out and conquer a bunch of hexagonal-shaped tiles with a bunch of barbarians on them before some other conquering civilization does. Because you snooze, you lose, know what… Continue Reading “Review – Deus”

Gaming With Dad

Yesterday was the first Father’s Day since my father passed back in December. For the most part, it was just another day and it didn’t hit me that hard. To be honest, I’d almost forgotten about it. There was just one comment at our… Continue Reading “Gaming With Dad”