We interrupt our regular Tuesday news program for this weeks irregular news program. The nominees for this year’s Spiel des[…]
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Category: Featured
Kennerspiel des Jahres 2012
Can you smell it? It’s that time of the year again. Smells of excitement. The nominees for the three German[…]
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Farmerama
Browser games being made into board games is still a very rare phenomenon. Besides Angry Birds, I can only think of this one: Farmerama. Are there reasons to be suspicious of Flash game adaptations?
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Strike Dice
Strike Dice is a game that promises epic conflict and adventure. After all, there are monsters on the box and the game board shows the conflict of Good vs. Evil. Also of Sight vs. Hearing, a conflict that recieves too little attention these days.
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Coerceo
Abstract strategy games for two players. There are many of them already, you could think that all the good ideas have been done. And then a game like Coerceo comes along, completely redefines how you use the board in a classic black-vs-white abstract game and is all fresh and exciting. You should never consider a genre complete, there are always great ideas still to be dicovered.
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Take it easy!
Simple, abstract games can be so frustrating sometimes. You spend 10 turns, waiting for the right tile, and just after you decide it won’t come up and put something else in it’s place, it comes up. DO you know that feeling? No? Then you don’t know Take it easy.
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Coming Soon: Off Your Rocker
We had the opportunity this weekend to try Chris James and Stratus Games’ next game, Off Your Rocker, which is[…]
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2 years of Meople’s Magazine
YearPublisherAuthorPlayers – Age – Time – StrategyLuckInteractionComponents & DesignComplexityScore So, this is the point where I’m supposed to say “Wow,[…]
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Pickomino
Not every game can be a brain-twisting, deeply strategic game. A gaming evening/weekend/vacation needs the fillers, the quick, light games that nevertheless everyone enjoys. And that’s where Pickomino, a game that you wouldn’t expect to show up in a serious gamer’s play time, has its niche.
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Onirim
Every night when you go to sleep, your mind gets lost in the Dream Labyrinth. It will wander there for a while and then get back to you in time to wake up. Unless, of course, you are one of the Dreamwalker, for them it’s a fight to return every night, having to find the eight oneiric doors first, chased by nightmares. And they are all alone – or sometimes with one more companion – with the risk of never waking up.
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