A Gaming Life
Posted on February 10, 2020 by whovian223
Whew! I’m finally awake again after finishing last week’s Part 1 of my “New to Me Games – January” post. That really took a lot out of me. It’s been a week and I’m just now recovering! Excuse me while I hop on my… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2020 (Part 2)”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alderac, Artipia Games, At the Gates of Loyang, Bag Building, Bluffing, Card Drafting, Clank in Space: Cyber Station 11, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Druid City Games, Ecos: First Continent, Evan Lorentz, Farming, Fields of Green, Haakon Gaarder, John D Clair, Party Games, Renegade Games Studios, Roll and Write Games, Scott Caputo, Set Collection Games, Sinister Fish Games, Sorcerer City, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Tasty Minstrel Grames, That's Pretty Clever, Tile-Laying Games, Tim McKnight, Uwe Rosenberg, Vangelis Bagiartakis, Villagers, Wolfgang Warsch
Posted on February 4, 2020 by whovian223
It’s a brand new year! And this time, I can actually say that while talking about 2020 games (unlike last month). January was a busy month for new-to-me games. I went to two conventions on back-to-back weekends (that was a lot of fun but… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2020 (Part 1)”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Area Control, Bag Building, Bunny Kingdom, Caleb Grace, Card Drafting, Circadians: First Light, Corey Konieczka, Daily Magic Games, Dice Placement, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Henry Audobon, Horizons, Iello Games, Isaias Vallejo, Keymaster Games, Levi Mote, Living Card Games, Lunch Time Games, Marvel Champsions: the Card Game, Michael Boggs, Nate French, North Star Games, Parks, Pick Up & Deliver, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Garfield, Rick Holzgrafe, Set Collection Games, SJ MacDonald, Star Wars: Outer Rim, Tableau-building, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tile-Laying Games, Tony Fanchi, Villages of Valeria, Wolfgang Warsch
Posted on January 3, 2020 by whovian223
Happy New Year! As we start the new year here at the Cult of the New to Me, we want to look back at the previous month, because looking back is what we do! That’s right. We never talk about the new to me… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alexander Pfister, Bluffing, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Crowd Games, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dice Placement, Exploration, Filip Miłuński, Granna Games, Great Western Trail, Great Western Trail: Rails to the North, Hurrican Games, Lunch Time Games, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Nagaraja, North Star Games, Simone Luciani, Space Explorers, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Théo Rivière, The Taverns of Tiefenthal, Tile-Laying Games, Warsaw: City of Ruins, Wolfgang Warsch, Yuri Zhuravljov, Zman Games
Posted on December 30, 2019 by whovian223
Everybody likes exploring ancient tombs and seeing what the artifacts there may tell us about our ancient ancestors. Right? We all have an inner Indiana Jones inside us, striving to get out. Or maybe it’s just me? Anyway, with the 2019 game Nagaraja from… Continue Reading “Review – Nagaraja”
Category: Board Games, ReviewTags: Bruno Cathala, Hurrican Games, Lunch Time Games, Nagaraja, Théo Rivière, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on October 31, 2019 by whovian223
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 September 9, 2019 by whovian223
It’s my birthday! Yes, I’m turning the big 49 today, and in celebration, I’m going to tell you the 49 games I’m really anticipating over the next few months. Ok, no. I’m not that much of a masochist. Instead, the number 4 is part… Continue Reading “Birthday Post – 4 Games I’m Looking Forward To”
Category: Board Games, Opinion, PersonalTags: Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein, Alderac, Capstone Games, Card-Driven Game, Dan Blanchett, Ecos: First Continent, John D Clair, Lunch Time Games, Matthias Cramer, Mike Elliott, Plaid Hat Games, Renegade Games Studios, Tableau-building, Terror Below, Tile-Laying Games, Watergate, Worker Placement Games
Posted on July 1, 2019 by whovian223
June was a very slow month for new to me games. Only two! And one expansion. Man, were they great ones, though. The expansion is to my favourite game of all time (at least for now) and I got another COIN game in! I… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2019”
Posted on April 4, 2019 by whovian223
It’s March! Or it was March. This post is about March, at any rate. What was I saying? Oh yeah, I played lots of new to me games last month because last weekend was a convention weekend. I played a total of eight new… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Abracada...What?, Area Control, Ben Rosset, Betting, Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Brett Myers, Camel Up, Carson City: the Card Game, COIN Games, Cuba Libre, Daily Magic Games, Dice Forge, Dice-Crafting Games, Dice-rolling, Dual Powers, Gary Kim, GMT Games, Isaias Vallejo, Jeff Grossman, Libellud, Lunch Time Games, Matthew O'Malley, Quined Games, Régis Bonnessée, Steffen Bogen, Stonemaier Games, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Valeria: Card Kingdoms, Volko Ruhnke, Xavier Georges, Zman Games
Posted on April 3, 2019 by whovian223
Great news from the Stonemaier Games monthly newsletter that arrived in my inbox today. In what could be the game with the longest name that I’ve ever heard of, Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig is coming to digital platforms later in 2019.… Continue Reading “Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig Coming to Digital”
Category: Apps, Board Games, NewsTags: Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Daisu Games, Stonemaier Games, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on March 8, 2019 by whovian223
Yesterday, one of the best boardgame apps ever made finally appeared on Steam after a long period on iOS/Android. Galaxy Trucker, by Czech Games Edition, is a game that doesn’t really seem like it would be a good fit on digital. It’s a real-time… Continue Reading “Galaxy Trucker Ships Out to Steam”
Category: Apps, Board Games, NewsTags: Czech Games Edition, Galaxy Trucker, Steam, Tile-Laying Games
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