A Gaming Life
“Perfect timing” is something that we say a lot but sometimes it just fits. A couple of months ago, I bought a bunch of games, including one that a friend of mine had been wanting to try for a while. It looked truly interesting,… Continue Reading “A Sequel to A Study in Emerald – the Game?”
Hot off the heels of their totally impressive mobile app adaptation of the Race for the Galaxy card game, Temple Gates is not resting on their laurels. Thom Lehman and Wei-Hwa Huang’s dice version of that game, Roll for the Galaxy is also being… Continue Reading “Temple Gates Continuing Their Mobile Assault on the Galaxy”
I feel like I have finally arrived as a gamer, after 6 years in the hobby. How do I know this? Because a major awards nominee list was released and I’ve played at least 30% of them! I guess I will have truly arrived… Continue Reading “International Gamers Awards Nominees Announced”
Poor Z-Man games. What happens when you have all of your publicity planned for a game, ready to go out on a certain day, and then suddenly the world explodes with not one, not two, but three events that would each individually make you… Continue Reading “Pandemic: Rising Tide – The King of Bad Timing”
Another bit of news that happened while I was gone, which falls into the “have a little bit of crap in your caviar dinner” category, is that the Lords of Waterdeep app from Playdek received a major update last week. First, it became a… Continue Reading “Lords of Waterdeep App – 2 Steps Forward, 1 Back”
Did you want to build an empire in less time than it takes to walk down to the store and back? Now you can, digitally! 8-Minute Empire the boardgame is designed by Ryan Laukat for Red Raven Games, and the digital app is developed… Continue Reading “8 Minute Empire released on Mobile/Steam”
After a long and unscheduled delay in posting here at Dude Central, how about we start with some actual news before going into stuff that I missed? That’s right, as promised last month, the expansion for The Networks has gone live on Kickstarter. The… Continue Reading “The Networks: Executives now on Kickstarter!”
Every year, just before GenCon, Fantasy Flight Games makes a bunch of new announcements that get the game world buzzing. Last week there were two: the Fallout: the Boardgame announcement (for which I’m pumped) and the announcement of Twilight Imperium 4th Edition (which didn’t… Continue Reading “Another Civilization Game Coming?”
Video games and board games have often had a bit of cross over (though I’m waiting for the First-Person Shooter version of Catan, myself). Titles like XCom: the Board Game come to mind as games based on video game franchises that actually end up… Continue Reading “Fallout: the Boardgame Coming in late 2017”
Paperback is a wonderful combination of word game and deck-building card game where you are trying to form words from the letter cards in your hands. The letters have money value when you play them, and you use that money to buy more letter… Continue Reading “Paperback Game App Gets Online Play”