Posted on September 22, 2021
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We’re heading into the home stretch with our look at the Top 300 games on Boardgame Geek. I may even finish before October! Wouldn’t that be a hoot? I’ve actually really enjoyed doing this list, even as I stated last week that it just… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #220-211”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Kwapiński, Age of Empires III: Discovery, Alderac, Area Control, Area Movement, Auction Games, Awaken Realms, Blue Orange Games, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Civilization Building, CMON, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Dixit: Odyssey, Fantasy Flight Games, Frank Brooks, Fury of Dracula, Glenn Drover, Hand Management, Hidden Movement, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Imperial Settlers, Jean-Louis Roubira, John D Clair, Kevin Wilson, Kingdomino, Libellud, Lords of Hellas, Lunch Time Games, Modern Art, Portal Games, Pulsar 2849, Reiner Knizia, Space Alert, Space Base, Stephen Hand, Tile-Laying Games, Tropical Games, Vlaada Chvátil, Vladimír Suchý
Posted on November 5, 2020
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And we’re back from the long hiatus that I seem to periodically take, like, every month or so. I really need to have a chat with these demons that seem to get inside my head all of the time and keep me from feeling… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #150-141”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Awaken Realms, Captain Sonar, Card-Driven Game, Chad Jensen, Civilization Building, Cody Miller, Combat Commander: Europe, Eggertspiele, Einar Rosén, Far Off Games, GMT Games, Gord!, Inka Brand, Jakub Wiśniewski, Lautapelit.fi, Lunch Time Games, Markus Brand, Matagot, Michał Oracz, Nations, Near and Far, Nina Håkansson, Paths of Glory, Red Raven Games, Res Arcana, Robert Rosén, Roberto Fraga, Roxley Games, Rustan Håkansson, Ryan Laukat, Sand Castle Games, Santorini, Space Games, Tableau-building, Team Games, Ted Raicer, This War of Mine, Tom Lehmann, Village, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Yohan Lemonnier
Posted on August 3, 2020
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It’s been almost 4 weeks since the last post in this series looking at the Top 100 Games ranked on Boardgame Geek. I was riding high, feeling all the love the series was creating and posting something almost every week day. And then I… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Play or Played – #10-1”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Alexander Pfister, Ananda Gupta, Brass: Birmingham, Campaign Games, Card-Driven Game, Cephalofair Games, Christian T. Petersen, Civilization Building, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Dane Beltrami, Deckbuilders, Economic Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Gaia Project, Gavan Brown, Gloomhaven, GMT Games, Great Western Trail, Helge Ostertag, Isaac Childress, Jacob Fryxelius, Jason Matthews, Jens Drogemuller, Martin Wallace, Matt Leacock, Matt Tolman, Pandemic: Legacy Season 1, Rob Daviau, Roxley Games, Star Wars: Rebellion, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization, Twilight Imperium : 4th Edition, Twilight Struggle, Vlaada Chvátil, Zman Games
Posted on June 24, 2020
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Another week, another look at the BGG Top 100. I’m really loving the response to these posts. It really heartens me and makes me want to keep going (even though this is the first post since the last Top 100 post, which isn’t necessarily… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? #40-31”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Kwapiński, Adam Poots, Ameritrash, Awaken Realms, Blood Rage, Chris Cantrell, Civilization Building, CMON, Cole Wehrle, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Daniele Tascini, Eric Lang, Fantasy Flight Games, Friedemann Friese, Jonathan Ying, Justin Kemppainen, Kingdom Death, Kingdom Death Monster, Leder Games, Matt Leacock, Mechs vs Minions, Miniatures, Nathan Tiras, Nemesis, Pandemic Legacy: Season 2, Power Grid, Prashant Saraswat, Rick Ernst, Rio Grande Games, Riot Games, Rob Daviau, Root, Simone Luciani, Star Wars: Imperial Assault, Stone Librande, Through the Ages, Tzolkin: the Mayan Calendar, Vlaada Chvátil
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 October 31, 2019
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October was SHUX month. SHUX is a 3-day boardgame convention in Vancouver that was simply phenomenal. I had so much fun, and would have had even more fun if I hadn’t felt so terrible. Maybe next year! You know what conventions mean, right? No,… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 5x5 City, Alderac, Board & Dice, Brian Henk, Card Drafting, Card Games, Civilization Building, Clayton Skancke, Corinth, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Denis Plastinin, Dice-rolling, Dylan Mangini, Explorers of the North Sea, Garphill Games, Grey Fox Games, Hisashi Hayashi, Jamey Stegmaier, Jonny Pac Cantin, Lunch Time Games, Mico, Modular Games, Molly Johnson, Okazu Brand, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Pull the Pin Games, Renegade Games Studios, Robert Melvin, Roll and Write Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Shawn Stankewich, Shem Phillips, Sierra West, SJ MacDonald, Stonemaier Games, Tapestry, Tile-Laying Games, War of the Worlds: the New Wave, Worker Placement Games, Zorro Dice Game
Posted on October 1, 2019
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It had been a quiet September at Dude Central. There was a birthday party that nobody came to (it’s not my fault I accidentally put September 9, 2018 on the invitations. How was I supposed to know that everybody would actually look at the… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alea, Alexander Pfister, Area Control, Benjamin Schwer, Blackout: Hong Kong, Chariot Race, Civilization Building, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, George Skourtis, Hadara, Hans im Gluck, Lunch Time Games, Macao, Matt Leacock, Nocturion, Pegasus Spiele, Racing Game, Ravensburger, Resource Management, Stefan Feld, Vesuvius Media, Zman Games
Posted on September 3, 2019
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It’s September, and it’s hard to believe the school year’s about to start. Where has 2019 gone? August was a good month for new to me games, even if there were only three of them (I did playtest a couple at Dragonflight, but I’m… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea, Carla Horger, Chris Vorder Bruegge, Civilization Building, GMT Games, Herve Lemaitre, Jeff Horger, Kolossal Games, Mark McLaughlin, Racing Game, Sandbox games, Take-That games, Thunder Alley, Western Legends
Posted on March 9, 2018
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One of the most asked questions out there is “What’s the meaning of life?” While Czech Games Edition doesn’t have the answer to that question, they do have the answer to the second-most asked question: Is Through the Ages ever going to come to… Continue Reading “Through the Ages Coming to Steam!”
Posted on August 15, 2017
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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?”
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