The Settlers of Catan have come a long way. From their little fictional island all the way to the USA in Trails to Rails and then all the way back to Europe to become Merchants of Europe. It’s been a long, strange trip.
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Meople News: Hot Rod the Sheepdog
alea Saint Malo, alea’s city-building game with pens and erasable game boards is running into some delays and will only[…]
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Loch Ness
Fog still lies over the Loch, the early morning was silent a minute ago. Now, the silence is disturbed by a stampede of photographers, running around the lake, setting up their cameras. Because, once more, Nessie has been spotted, and all the papers want the best photos.
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Meople News: Steampowered Aztec Abbey
Days of Wonder I’m sure this one will make many people happy: Days of Wonder announced a reprint of Mystery[…]
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Incognito
This week, we’re going on another trip to the past, specifically to 1988. Also to Venice. Incognito won the award for most beautiful game at the Spiel des Jahres awards that year, and it’s well deserved: it’s one of the prettiest deduction games I’ve ever seen, with all custom components. And it’s a clever game as well.
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Meople News: Druid Super Hero of the Year
Most of you will have heard it at this point: the Spiel des Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jahres have been[…]
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Village
Village is a medieval countryside life simulator. Only it cuts away the boring 99% of it and lets you make the decisions that shape your fameeply’s lives. Should the new kid learn a craft? Go into politics? Maybe go and see the world. Everything is possible, and everything might earn you a spot in the village chronice – or in an unmarked grave.
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Final Frontier
Expensive game components, the final frontier for board game publisher. These are the games of Victory Point Games. Their continuing mission: to bring you new games, to seek out new authors, new genres, to boldly ship their games in a ziploc bag.
You guessed it, Final Frontier is a science fiction game that keeps referencing a certain TV series. But is a good theme and paper components in a ziploc game enough to make a great game?
Meople News: Look out for the Atlantean Ginkgo
Z-Man Games Atlantis Rising has been announced quite some time ago, and that it will be released for Gencon this[…]
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K2
Mountaineering is not much used as a theme in boardgames. After trying K2, I really wonder why because it’s tense, exciting and deadly. There are no empty moves here, every turn has important decisions. A worthy nominee for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2012?
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