All Entries Tagged With: "board games"
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. [...]
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 [...]
Wizkids Star Trek Expeditions Board Game Release Date Confirmed
Wizkids had an early prototype of “Star Trek Expeditions” by Reiner Knizia at Gen Con 2010, but it was just an unplayable mock-up. After months of waiting, there is a release date: June 15th, 2011. I gleaned this information from the GAMA Trade Show 2o11 show book. Of all the things I covered at Gen [...]
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 [...]
First Look: Pastiche the Board Game from Gryphon Games
Gryphon Games has a new board game in the pipeline, “Pastiche.” The game releases in the next few months and Gryphon Games kindly forwarded the box art and rules to me for an early look. “Pastiche” is an art-themed set collection board game using the premise that each player gathers specific color palette cards and [...]
Defenders of the Realm, Fzzzt! and a Secret Prototype from Eagle Games Session Report
“Defenders of the Realm” popped on my radar back at the GAMA Trade Show in March, but they only had an early prototype with simple tokens instead of the finished miniatures. At long last, I got in a game at Game Depot this weekend. Additionally, I also got a quick game of “Fzzzt!” and a [...]