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Just a quick news post to start the week (it’s Family Day up here in most of Canada, so we’re all at home freezing our bits off instead of at work freezing our bits off). Last year, I discovered the brilliantly fun game The… Continue Reading “Pursuit of Happiness expansion – Experiences”
One of the things I like about boardgame blogging is the community that builds up around it. I have “met” (virtually, for the most part, but not totally) a number of wonderful boardgaming people on Twitter and some on Facebook too. Indeed, somehow this… Continue Reading “Friday Blog Roundup – 2/14/19”
Happy Valentine’s Day! What a fitting day to share the love I have for my Top 5 Games. We’ve reached the end, those of you who have been holding your breath to see what my Top 5 games played are. Hopefully you didn’t hold… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time (5-1)”
Gamelyn Games has been putting out Tiny Epic games consistently for the past few years. Funnily enough, the only one I’ve played is Tiny Epic Galaxies (most recently with the Beyond the Black expansion), but I’ve heard good things about the other ones. Today,… Continue Reading “Tiny Epic Tactics Announced – Kickstarter February 19”
Something looks familiar. Something coming from Fantasy Flight Games in the Star Wars universe sometime in the next few months. Late last week (Editor – Late to the party as usual!), FFG announced Star Wars: Outer Rim, a game where you can play as one of the… Continue Reading “Star Wars Outer Rim from Fantasy Flight Games”
Bezier Games is most well-known for tile-laying games like Suburbia or Castles of Mad King Ludwig. Or, even more recently, the incredibly variable One-Night series (like One-Night Ultimate Werewolf or One-Night Ultimate Alien). Now, my world has just shifted off of its axis. Bezier has now announced the release… Continue Reading “Going Against Type – Bezier Games to Release CABO Card Game”
Good news has reached us here at Dude Central! Since I’ve already posted twice on this issue (once criticizing Stronghold for the Twitter block campaign and then asking them to end it when they took the Aftershock Kickstarter campaign down), it’s only fair to… Continue Reading “Stronghold Games & Rex Brynen Reach Agreement on Aftershock Name Controversy”
(Edit – 12/20/19: For those finding this post some other way, the review is up!) Long-time followers of this blog know how big a fan of Smash Up I am. I’ve done tons of reviews for expansions (ok, three, but tons sounds better, doesn’t… Continue Reading “Smash Up: International Incident Coming March 22!”
After a steady couple of days (thanks, Reddit!), it’s time to get back to the real business of this blog. That’s right, fashion shows board games! Apologies for the delay in getting back to the Best Games Played of All Time after a rollicking… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time (15-11)”