Tag: Dune Imperium
Posted on December 1, 2025
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I knew November would be much better than October for my gaming, because there’s a really nice 4-day convention in November. I didn’t expect that it would be this much better, though! In November, I managed to play 36 games a total of 57… Continue Reading “November 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Bomb Busters, Bottoscon, Card Games, Combat Commander, Cover Your A$$ets, Deckbuilders, Doomlings, Dune Imperium, Ecos: First Continent, Final Girl, Galactic Cruise, Hansa Teutonica, Inventors of the South Tigris, Inventors of the South Tigris - Era of Experts, Lunch Time Games, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, SETI, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on November 11, 2025
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This past weekend was the 19th annual Bottoscon convention at the Inn at the Quay in New Westminster, Canada. We’re almost at 20! The con is run by Rob Bottos, a great guy who has taken to heart what many of us Canadians have… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2025 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, AllPlay, Aporta Games, Artipia Games, Bad Company, Bottoscon, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cascadia, CMON, CMYK, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Devir, Diamonds, Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Flatout Games, Galactic Cruise, Gizmos, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jackie Fox, Kinson Key Games, Kosmos, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Oddland, Origin Story, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, Roll and Move, Schadenfreude, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Pepper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, The Gang, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games
Posted on July 7, 2025
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(This is a review of both the expansion and the app version of it) The Dune Imperium games are very highly regarded, with the base game sitting at number 6 on Boardgame Geek and Dune Imperium: Uprising currently at number 11. That’s some positive… Continue Reading “You Got Your Cubes in My Gene Pool! – App Expansion Review – Dune Imperium: Immortality”
Category: Apps, Board Games, ReviewTags: Android, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Dune Imperium - Immortality, Dune Imperium - Rise of Ix, ios, Paul Dennen, Steam, Worker Placement Games
Posted on May 30, 2025
by whovian223
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Can I really go a month combining drinking and posting? Yes, I can! It’s been a month of posts, and thankfully you’ve managed to find your way back to the bar each week, even though historically I’ve been having trouble meeting this quota. That… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Games & Changed Opinions”
Posted on May 26, 2025
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(Edit 6/4/25): Wow, that was quick. They’ve now announced it will be available on all platforms on June 10! Two posts in a day, but this one excites me and I’ve just had time to actually write it up after a few days. Hence… Continue Reading “Dune Imperium – Immortality Digital Expansion Coming Soon”
Posted on January 1, 2025
by whovian223
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Happy New Year, everybody! I hope you had a safe and happy New Year’s Eve celebration last night, or at least just spent the changeover with your loved ones. Some of you may even have been asleep! As I did last year and for… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2024”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, Boardgames Chronicle, Bottoscon, Clio's Board Games, Combat Commander, Combat Commander: Europe, Dragonflight, Dune Imperium, Dune Imperium - Rise of Ix, Earth, Friedrich, Harmonies, Heavy Cardboard, I Found Bigfoot, Oh My Goods, OrcaCon, Our Family Plays Games, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, Players' Aid, Raiders of the North Sea, Space-Biff Reviews, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Thing 12 Games, Time of Crisis, Wingspan, Zilla Blitz
Posted on November 27, 2024
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If you’re a boardgamer and you haven’t heard of Dune: Imperium, what rock have you been hiding under? I know that Boardgame Geek is not the end-all and be-all of board games, the game itself is currently ranked 6th and the new “version” of… Continue Reading “Who the Heck is Ix? – App Expansion Review – Dune Imperium: the Rise of Ix”
Category: Apps, Board Games, ReviewTags: Android, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Dune Imperium - Rise of Ix, Expansions, ios, Paul Dennen, Steam, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 14, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s only been two years, but it’s that time again! The 2022 edition of my “Top Games Played of All Time” was predicated on my having played just over 400 games. As of the end of 2023, I had played 534 games in total.… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#50-41)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Abstract Games, Action Selection, Alderac, Andreas Schmidt, Blood Bowl Team Manager, Board & Dice, Cape May, Chad Jensen, Charlie Bink, Cranio Creations, Daniele Tascini, David Thompson, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dominant Species, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, Engine-building, Fantasy Flight Games, Flaminia Brasini, GMT Games, Heaven & Ale, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Lunch Time Games, Michael Kiesling, On Mars, Paul Dennen, Set Collection Games, Simone Luciani, Teotihuacan, Thunderworks Games, Trekking Through History, Trevor Benjamin, Underdog Games, Virginio Gigli, Vital Lacerda, War Chest, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 12, 2024
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Welcome to the new year! Sorry that the bar was closed last week, but I was off doing something much more fun than trying to figure out what I wanted to write about that week. With last week also full of other posts, I… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Game Promos – Yea or Nay?”
Posted on December 17, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit: 3/12/24) – It’s out of Early Access, and available on iOS/Android as well! One of the biggest games of 2020, hitting during the pandemic lockdowns but still going strong, was Dune: Imperium from Dire Wolf Digital. It was just phenomenally well-received, so much… Continue Reading “App Review – Early Access – Dune: Imperium”