One of the big gaming events of the year has been cancelled, the Spiel 2020 is not going to happen[…]
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Meople News: Legacy of Tokaido
Brookspun Games To avoid confusion lets first talk about what Legacies isn’t. It is not a Legacy game. You won’t[…]
Read moreMeople News: Happy Holidays, everyone!
That’s it, folks! Another year has flown by. Whichever holidays you celebrate at this time of the year, I hope[…]
Read moreOceanos
Jacques Cousteau awakened the fascination for the submarine world in many of us. His film productions present the wonders hidden under the surface of the ocean, and yet they awaken curiosity for more. I think Monsieur Cousteau would approve of the way fellow Frenchman Antoine Bauza presents the underwater world in his game Oceanos: not as a place for warfare, like many games have done before, but as the object of curious discovery.
Read moreTokaido – Collectors’ Edition
Usually, when a game is about traveling a road, you win by arriving first at the destination. Of course racing is fun, but it’s not the only way to travel. Sometimes, going slowly and enjoying the trip is what you should be doing. Antoine Bauza’s Tokaido rewards that type of travel, here the winner is the player who had the richest experience along the way. That makes Tokaido very different from a racing game, and in the best way, too.
Read moreKennerspiel des Jahres 2016 – The Nominees
And we’re back with the Spiel des Jahres 2016 coverage. Today we’ll have a look at the Kennerspiel nominees and[…]
Read moreMeople News: Sins of the Stone Age
GMT Games I appreciate when GMT Games makes non-wargames. I enjoyed all games by them I tried, but the whole[…]
Read more7 Wonders: Duel
Mighty empires are fighting for supremacy over the ancient world. But where once up to seven empires where in contest, now there are only two. 7 Wonders: Duel condenses the action of 7 Wonders into a two player game, playing in two being the one weak spot 7 Wonders always had. To make that happen, many things had to change, but the game remains the same.
Read moreMeople News: Titanic Presidential Tragedies
This week was one of the most important weeks of the gaming year: the selection of Spiel des Jahres and[…]
Read moreMeople News: Harbinger of a Foreign Moon
Bombyx / Asmodee Antoine Bauza and Corentin Lebrat’s incredibly cute bamboo and panda game Takenoko is about to be even[…]
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