All Entries in the "board games" Category
Carcasonne IOS App Finally Updated
Rivers, beautiful rivers. Words cannot express my joy with the new carcasonne tile sets. Behold! There are also double meeple tokens, new ways to score roads and cities and more tiles. A couple of test games showed that they make it much harder to block a city by creating a non-playable space. The supplements do [...]
Review: Reiner Knizia’s Tigris and Euphrates for the iOS
Board games have a major defect; the need that 2-4 player to sit around a table at the same time. There is no personality issue, just a logistical one. Getting four adults in the same room at the same time while juggling other commitments is a challenge. Computers helped, but it was not very portable. [...]
Gen Con 2011 Play Report Part 2–With Bonus Swag!
This is a quick wrap-up of the games I played with a brief section on game purchases made at Gen Con 2011. After the terrible Terrorwerks experience we engaged in World War 1 aerial combat in the Fantasy Flight area. The “Wings of War” furball pitted 28 players against each other in a last-man-standing format. [...]
Gen Con 2011 Report Part 1
Gen Con 2011 is over and I survived! Normally it takes nearly a week for me to pull my life back together and get this post up, but I am strangely energized. Perhaps it was my decision to limit my backpack’s weight to an absolute bare minimum. Nothing like strained shoulders to sap the strength. [...]
Nexus Games Bankrupt and Liquidating?
Rumors appeared today on Board Game Geek that Nexus Games, publishers of “Wings of War” and “War of the Ring,” is in financial trouble, possibly liquidating. I must repeat, this is only a rumor, but I had the email for the PR guy at Nexus and got this response: This mail address is not [...]
Learn From Other’s Mistakes: The End of a Board Game Publisher
Reiver Games published several board games over the past two years and was the full-time occupation of the company’s founder. It also ceased to exist as of June 6th, 2011. Reiver sadly joined a long list of game publishers that did not make it. Jack, the owner, kindly wrote a long post about what he [...]
Review: The Last of the Independents from Numbskull Games
The Last of the Independents is a recent Euro-style board game from Numbskull Games. The idea behind this game is to out engineer, out manufacture, and out advertise your competition as an Automobile company circa 1950′s. Aside from the unique setting, this game is also noteworthy that it is a strategy board game that does [...]
GAMA Trade Show Best of Show Winner 2011–Star Trek: Expeditions from Wizkids!
Every year GTS rolls around and Livingdice faces a brutal task. We choose the one game that stands above all others, the “GTS 2011 Best of Show.” We do our level best to give every game an equal shot, regardless of company size or marketing budget. Earlier winners include the groundbreaking, but sadly unsuccessful “Ex-Illis” [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 13
Today’s GAMA Trade Show 2011 exhibitors include Green Ronin, Bandai, Three Sages Games, Gamers Rule, and Cactus Game Design Company Green Ronin Green Ronin had a nice spread of all there recently released books. And they seem to have new stuff around every corner. Most exciting (to me at least) was the Dragon Age RPG: [...]