Tag: Monster Couch
Posted on June 23, 2025
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Do you think Monster Couch is now satisfied? They are the developer of the app version of the very well-regarded tableau-building card game, Wingspan. They have now released the final available expansion for Wingspan, Wingspan Asia, so they are caught up with the board… Continue Reading “Winging Your Way Through Asian Skies – Wingspan – Asia Expansion App Review”
Posted on February 12, 2025
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(Edit 6/3/25): The date’s been announced. June 16 across all platforms! Yes!!!! Even more exciting news for fans of the wonderful Wingspan app from Monster Couch! Yes, the latest (and last so far) expansion to the game, Wingspan: Asia, will be coming to the… Continue Reading “Wingspan: Asia expansion coming to digital in Summer 2025”
Posted on December 20, 2023
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Did you know that birds aren’t real? But for some reason, game designer Elizabeth Hargrave continues to try and convince us that they are! In 2020, Hargrave and publisher Stonemaier Games released the second expansion to the excellent Wingspan game, still one of my… Continue Reading “App Expansion Review – Wingspan: Oceania”
Posted on January 10, 2023
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OrcaCon is a convention held in Bellevue, Washington in January every year. Sadly, I wasn’t able to go last year and the two years before that…well, something happened. I’m not really sure what. I went to my first OrcaCon in January 2020 and then… Continue Reading “OrcaCon 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Alexander Pfister, Andrew Parks, Atlas Games, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Bluffing, Calico, Card Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Charioteer, CMON, Contracts, Core Worlds, David Fooden, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, Elizabeth Hargrave, Engine-building, Gizmos, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Kevin Russ, Lunch Time Games, Matt Calkins, Monster Couch, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Nick Little, Nicolas Robert, On Mars, Pearl Games, Phil Walker-Harding, Racing Game, Rondel Games, Seals of Cthulhu, Sean Epperson, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, The Bloody Inn, Thing 12 Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wingspan, Wingspan: Asia, Wingspan: European Expansion, Wingspan: Oceania expansion, Yukon Salon
Posted on January 1, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s the new year and welcome to 2023! As has been my tradition for the past 3 years, here is my annual post about the year that was, 2022 in this case. Unlike last year, where I talked about how 2021 really should be… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2022”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Ark Nova, Bayonets & Tomahawks, Boardgame Arena, Boardgames Chronicle, Capstone Games, Cat Lady, Combat Commander: Europe, GMT Games, Jump Drive, Marvel Legendary, Monster Couch, Rio Grande Games, Space Base, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Wingspan
Posted on December 8, 2022
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Exciting news in the digital boardgaming world came yesterday from Monster Couch Games, the developer of the wonderful Wingspan app. Quilts & Cats of Calico (which is basically the board game Calico from Flatout Games and AEG), which is a tile-laying game where you… Continue Reading “Quilts & Cats of Calico from Monster Couch Coming to Digital”
Posted on October 26, 2022
by whovian223
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(Edit: 11/7/23) – A release date has been announced! December 12 at 10:00 am PST! It’s nice when you look at your email inbox and find some welcome news instead of the usual spam and people bothering you about things you don’t care about.… Continue Reading “Wingspan: Oceania Expansion Coming to Digital”
Posted on May 9, 2022
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The Wingspan app published by Monster Couch Games has been a wonderful app since it came out in October 2020. Online play oddities aside, the game has very few bugs that I’m aware of and it’s a brilliant digital adaptation of the boardgame designed… Continue Reading “App Expansion Review – Wingspan: European Expansion”
Category: Apps, Board Games, ReviewTags: Android, Card Games, Elizabeth Hargrave, ios, Monster Couch, Steam, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Wingspan, Wingspan: European Expansion
Posted on December 14, 2021
by whovian223
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(Edit: 5/9/22) – And here’s the review of it. It’s great! (Edit: 5/5/22): It’s here! Looks good so far, but watch this space (or this blog!) for a review of it in the upcoming days. (Edit: 4/12/22): The release date has been announced! You… Continue Reading “Wingspan: European Expansion Coming to the App”
Category: Apps, Board Games, NewsTags: Android, Card Games, ios, Monster Couch, Steam, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Wingspan, Wingspan: European Expansion
Posted on January 1, 2021
by whovian223
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Welcome to 2021! 2020 was a very hard year, not just as a boardgamer but as a person in general. The arrival of COVID-19 and extreme measures taken to counteract it have really taken a toll on me and Dude Take Your Turn in… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2020”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: CascadeCon, COVID-19, Dice Tower, Dice Tower West, Elder Sign, Eric Summerer, Fantasy Flight Games, Kiki Aimerito, Monster Couch, OrcaCon, Roll Player, Shards of Infinity, Stephen Buonocore, Stone Blade Entertainment, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars: Big Box, Thunderworks Games, Wingspan