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Meople News: Take care, this is a long one, and it has orcs

12 June, 2015 Kai Weekly News

Fantasy Flight Games The preview posts of the last weeks told us all the basics about Fantasy Flight’s new Warhammer[…]

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Meople News: Rice with Tiny Dragons

Meople News: Rice with Tiny Dragons

9 January, 2015 Kai Weekly News

Modiphius Entertainment Kevin Wilson, designer of Arkham Horror and many other great games, has signed to develop a game for[…]

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Meople News: The Glass Robots of Orléans

5 September, 2014 Kai Weekly News

Fantasy Flight Games The third new school of magic in Bestial Forces, the next Wiz-War expansion by Fantasy Flight Games,[…]

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Meople News: Mr. Panic Mansion

Meople News: Mr. Panic Mansion

9 October, 2012 Kai Weekly News

Fantasy Flight Games With the newest expansion, Mansions of Madness will turn into Meadows of Madness or something like that,[…]

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Meople News: Puzzled Sentinels of Winter

19 April, 2012 Kai Weekly News

Two days late, but not forgotten, here are the news for this week. Rumours that the delay was caused by[…]

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Meople News: Beyond the Coffee Pyramid

31 January, 2012 Kai Weekly News

This news post is a really long one, you better get another cup of coffee before you start – when[…]

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  • Evolution: The Origin of Species

    Evolution is one of the more vicious card games out there – eating your opponents animals is a great survival strategy. But the game’s author is a biologist by trade, so at least it is scientifically acurate viciousness.

  • 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?

  • Smash Up

    The ultimate question about life, the universe and everything can finally be answered. Who would win in a fight, Pirates or Ninjas? 42. Sorry, doesn’t make sense after all. But at least you can answer all the other big questions as well. Dinosaurs or Robots? Aliens or Zombies? All that and more now has an answer, and the answer is Smash Up.

  • Russian Railroads

    Russian Railroads is a European optimization game, subtype worker placement. Every game, you try to do better than the one before, optimize your strategy and score a bit higher. But it’s not a typical game of the genre. Where you often have a lack of options in other such games, only one or two routes to victory which you try to use as well as you can, Russian Railroads gives you many different, viable ways to score. Its many moving parts create a fascinating whole that will let you find new ways to a higher score for a long time.

  • 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.

  • Battle for Supremacy

    Superheroes and Villains are loose in the not-so-peacefull city of Centropolia. We all know how these two types never get along, and so it doesn’t take long before the public property damage reaches the million dollar border. Actually, we don’t know that, all we care about im Battle for Supremacy is punching the other guy on the nose.

  • Alcatraz: The Scapegoat

    They say no one ever escaped from Alcatraz. If you want to be the first, you will have to work together with the other inmates. But watch out, or you might be left behind, because for all its cooperation required, Alcatraz: The Scapegoat is anything but a cooperative game.

  • Codenames

    I still think Vlaada Chvátil has this little check list on his desk where he goes “Oh, here’s a genre I didn’t make a game in yet” and then just sets out to design a game for that genre. And whatever genre he picks, he’s good at it. The latest example of that is Codenames, a word association game. And if you think that word games are boring, like I did, then maybe Vlaada can change your mind.

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