Friday’s gaming started off strong with my first go at a fantastic new Rio Grande card game (non-collectible) called Race for the Galaxy. Race is a Euro-style empire building game featuring fast, simultaneous play and a satisfyingly complex mechanic. The designers managed to cram a surprising amount of information onto each card, but clever layout [...]
I blew off my second slot in lieu of some hearty exploration of the expo floor. Some really great stuff this year. I was disappointed to learn that the first printing of Days of Wonder’s new Small World has apparently sold out completely. I’m playing a demo tomorrow, and from the buzz I’d been expecting [...]
I was very jazzed to hear that Fantasy Flight Games‘ excellent WWI fighter dogfight game Wings of War is coming to XBLA. I had demoed the game at GenCon ’07, and was very excited to pick it up. The board game’s Famous Aces starter box had been out of stock for a while though, and [...]
So, it’s been a while since I posted. Basically, the nuttiness of the holiday has simply been keeping me busy as heck. We started painting the kitchen in December, and ended up racing to get everything buttoned up before the holidays. There’s still a little touching up to be done, but we at least got [...]
Many fans will be delighted to hear that Jordan Weisman’s new company Smith & Tinker has licensed the rights for the Battletech, Shadowrun, and Crimson Skies properties back from Microsoft. Here’s a link to the press release. Go Jordan! Can’t wait to see what his next move will be.
Just a quick note to check out the latest installment of the Radio Active podcast (#34) over at Ken Newquist’s speculative fiction website, Nuketown. Ken kindly asked me to join him to collaborate on a review of one of our gaming group’s newest obsessions, Arkham Horror. Arkham Horror is published by Fantasy Flight Games, and [...]
Well, I’m quite excited. This Friday night is board game week! See, I’ve been gaming weekly with a great bunch of guys for the past six years or so. Here’s a link to our campaign website. The main focus of our weekly Friday night game is several ongoing Dungeons and Dragons (d20 3.5 ed.) campaigns [...]