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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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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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?
Read moreMeople News: Tahiti Runners
Finally, gaming is back here in the Meeple Cave. We have a friend staying with us this week, so not[…]
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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.
Read moreMeople News: Aztec Cardinals
Days of Wonder The scenario previews for Small World Realms just keep getting better: the latest one, A Dig Too[…]
Read moreCoerceo
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.
Read moreMeople News: Defenders of the Pirate Sheep
Alderac Entertainment Smash Up, Paul Peterson’s shufflebuilding game – shufflebuilding because you shuffle two decks together, unlike deck-building where you[…]
Read moreTake 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.
Read moreMeople News: Fortress in the Shire
The news week was short this time, the last news roundup only being from last Thursday, but the news this[…]
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