Game Preview from Spielwarenmesse II: Cities of Splendor, or New Gems to Admire

After a hiatus caused by terrible internet service in the Martin household, the preview videos from Spielwarenmesse 2017 are flowing once again. You can see them all as they're posted if you subscribe to BGG's YouTube channel, or you can look at just the Spielwarenmesse 2017 playlist, or you can watch for highly-anticipated titles in this space, or you can run across them randomly on individual game pages, or you can ignore them all and eat pudding. The choice is yours.

To kick things off once again, here's an overview of Cities of Splendor, a work-in-progress by Marc André and Space Cowboys that contains four expansions for Splendor that can be used independently or in combination. I'm hitting the game fair in Cannes at the end of February, so perhaps I'll be able to bring back more details then, but for now we have this teaser:

New Game Round-up: Leaving Terra Mystica for Space, and Welcoming Sentinels to Earth-Prime

Feb 14, 2017

• If all goes well for Feuerland Spiele, at SPIEL 2017 we'll see the ludic debut of PIGS...IN...SPACE!!!!! Okay, perhaps the game won't actually contain extraterrestrial porkers, but Jens...

New Game Round-up: Guess Werewords After Dark, Then Build a Tiny Caverna for Two

Feb 13, 2017

• Unless I've misjudged the guy, Ted Alspach of Bézier Games seems determined to introduce werewolves into every game genre possible. Witness the announcement of Werewords, a party game due...

New Game Round-up: Take a Train to Ride the Empyreals, and Fluxx Your Way Through School

Feb 11, 2017

• Designer Trey Chambers and artist Nokomento worked together on Level 99 Games' Argent: the Consortium in 2015, and now the pair has a new game in the offing for release in 2018, a game that...

Game Preview: LYNGK, or Bringing Everything Together for Success

Feb 10, 2017

I first played Kris Burm's games in 2000 during the Mensa Mind Games in Atlanta, Georgia. My parents lived in the area, so I visited them to put in filial face-time (and save money) and traveled...

New Game Round-up: Garden Gnomes Finally Start Invading, Lang Readies More Bloodborne, and Alderac Keeps Smashing Up

Feb 08, 2017

Old cover and new logo• Sometimes announced games vanish into the mists never to be seen again — and sometimes they re-emerge in unexpected places, as with the announcement by Asmadi Games...