Another year’s Essen has passed, and it has the usual, predictable results on the board game news situation: there is[…]
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Spiel ’10 at Essen – Day 2
Today was our second and the general last day of Spiel ’10, and as every year it’s a shame it’s[…]
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Our Day 1, that is. For those among us lucky enough to have vacation days left, the world’s biggest board[…]
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Last weekend, we were at Oxford visiting a friend and gaming buddy who is now living there and working on[…]
Read moreKingsburg
Kingsburg is a medieval dice-fest about building up your shire (no, not The Shire, but you can always add a bit of roleplay if you want) and defeating demons and dragons that attack each winter, all through bribery at the court. It seems the ends do justify the means here.
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Another week, another news post, and there is some tasty tidbits again: We get a first look at the visuals[…]
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Palazzo is a fun, quick auctioning game with a slightly mathy scoring system. It has a theme – or so I’m told – something about building houses in Florence, but it doesn’t really matter much.
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Considering it’s 3 weeks until Essen, it’s kind of slow on the news front. Of course, I’m still building up[…]
Read moreWitch of Salem
The Witch of Salem is one of many board games set in Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, and its art really makes that world come to life. Four scholars of the paranormal set out to keep the Great Old Ones imprisoned in R’lyeh. Will they succeed?
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Yay, only the second week of weekly news, and already I couldn’t keep my schedule of “every Friday evening” that[…]
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