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Links: Lovecraft's Ledger, Another Nom for Leacock & More

Links: Lovecraft's Ledger, Another Nom for Leacock & More
Board Game: Arkham Horror
• Wired previews the next 221 Arkham Horror expansions from Fantasy Flight Games.

• Spiel Portugal "interviews" designer Michael Schacht, who spills a bit of info about future releases.

• On a related topic (site?), anyone looking for suggestions of "beefier" games following the SdJ and Kennerspiel des Jahres announcements should check out the nominee list for Spiel Portugal's Jogo do Ano (Game of the Year). Previous winners from 2006 to 2009 are Imperial, Brass, Agricola and Maria. The five finalists for the 2010 award are:

-----• Dominant Species
-----• Luna
-----• Navegador
-----• Troyes
-----• Vinhos

You might think that the 2010 winner should have been announced prior to July 2011, but check out the fancy, personalized award given to the winner of each of the previous years. I'm sure those take time to make!

• Designer Matt Leacock might be 0-for-3 in Spiel des Jahres wins, but his designs do keep being nominated: Pandemic in 2009, Roll Through the Ages in 2010 and Forbidden Island in 2011. Now Het Verboden Eiland, the Dutch version of Forbidden Island from White Goblin Games, has been nominated for Speelgoed van het Jaar (Toy of the Year) for 2011 in the 8-12 year-old category. The Speelgoed van het Jaar website hasn't been updated with the complete list of nominees for 2011, so I don't know what Leacock is up against. In 2010 the category was won by a €170 LEGO train system, while Tricoda, aka Code 777, won the 12+ category and LEGO's Minotaurus won the 6-8 category.

• At Go Forth and Game, Tom Gurganus interviews Kevin Nesbitt from Stronghold Games.

• Universal Head celebrates back-of-the-box shots.

• The Grand Rapids Press in Michigan (U.S.) profiles designing brothers Chris and Paul Nowak and their 2011 Mensa Mind Games winner Uncle Chestnut's Table Gype.

• [OT] While searching for shelving for my new home, I ran across this box in Target for one of those Ikea-ish pressboard shelving units:

From gallery of W Eric Martin

Looking more closely at the box, I was surprised by the selection of games stacked on these shelves. Can you name them all from this too-blurry close shot?

From gallery of W Eric Martin

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