All Entries in the "Card Games" Category
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. [...]
Nightfall: Blood Country
AEG just announced a new expansion for “Nightfall.” Nightfall: Blood Country comes out in October and leverages that ever important redneck demographic. Here is the press release: Cities have fallen, cities have stood, but outside of those protections, humans must face the creatures of darkness on their own terms. In the lawless countryside of Nightfall, [...]
Thunderstone: Thornwood Siege Unboxing
“Thunderstone: Thornwood Siege” arrived today and I thought a quick unboxing post in order. This is not a stand alone supplement for Thunderstone like Dragonspire. Thornwood Siege is not playable without the base game or Dragonspire. The set contains 284 cards with the usual mix of hero, village, monster, randomizer cards and 18 tokens to [...]
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: [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage–Part 12
Today’s featured vendors include Mayfair Games, Cryptozoic, Wizards of the Coast and Wizkids!. My co-conspirator has one more post tomorrow to complete our exhibitor coverage and then we name our “GTS Best of Show 2011″ winner on Monday. The end draws nigh! Mayfair Games “Vikings of Catan” is a new metal miniature token set [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 8
GAMA Trade Show 2011 coverage continues with Looney Labs, Chivalry Games, Digme Productions,Flying Buffalo, Arcane Tinman, Acrylicos Vallejo, and WorldWise Imports. Looney Labs The Labs were showing off three new products. First is Pirate Fluxx, which released in February. As the many other Fluxx flavors, this adds Pirates to the game. There are a couple [...]
Unboxing: Nightfall Preview Edition from AEG
Nightfall from Alderac Entertainment Group releases in a few weeks, but AEG kindly sent me a “preview” copy today. The preview copy of “Nightfall” is just a bare-bones box with the cards and the instructions. The full retail version will have the card dividers and sufficient space for the rulebook. Sadly I cannot actually play [...]
Thunderstone: Dragonspire Unboxing
AEG forwarded a copy of Thunderstone: Dragonspire today and I thought a very quick unboxing post in order. Once I get a chance to play it, I will put up some more thoughts. A quick look through the rules shows that Dragonspire is either a supplement for use with previous versions of Thunderstone or a [...]
Thunderstone: Dragonspire Releases February 2011
Dragonspire, the latest supplement for the Thunderstone deck-building game releases next month. Here are a couple of shots and the press release: The Doomgate is open, and Doom has been released into the world! The forces of destruction stalk the lands, destroying all they touch. There is but one dim flicker of hope: the Thunderstones, [...]