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Previews from Spielwarenmesse 2019 I: Hadara, Corinth, Fired Up, and Era: Medieval Age

Previews from Spielwarenmesse 2019 I: Hadara, Corinth, Fired Up, and Era: Medieval Age
From gallery of W Eric Martin
The Spielwarenmesse toy fair in Nürnberg, Germany turned 70 in 2019, and after four days of recording game overview videos at the fair Lincoln Damerst and I felt seventy years old ourselves. So much walking! So little sleep! So many games seen and so few remembered!

Since we're already prepping for coverage of the Festival International des Jeux (FIJ) in Cannes, France — our livestream starts on Thursday, Feb. 21! — we're trying to publish the videos from Spielwarenmesse 2019 as quickly as possible in order to avoid getting backed up. What's more, for 2019 and beyond we plan to publish the convention overview videos on a new YouTube channel: BoardGameGeek Express. By doing so, we can present produced material such as GameNight! and The BGG Show on the existing BGG TV YouTube channel without flooding the zone with a hundred convention videos all at once, something we've done in the past to subscribers' regret. (When I tried to avoid flooding subscribers, I would end up spacing out the publication of videos for months, making that coverage less useful since it sometimes wouldn't appear until after a game was released.)

The first video on BGG Express is an overview of Era: Medieval Age, a game from Matt Leacock and eggertspiele that reworks the gameplay of Roll Through the Ages in a new 3D format. This title is the first in a trilogy, and company owner Sophie Gravel showed off a pre-production sample of the game ahead of its debut at Gen Con 2019:





I've also published preview videos for Fired Up, a SPIEL '19 release from Giorgos Eleftheriadis, Theofilos Koutroubis, and Drawlab Entertainment; Corinth, a Sébastien Pauchon design that Days of Wonder will debut at FIJ 2019 ahead of a March 2019 release in Europe and a May 2019 release in North America; and Hadara, a Bejamin Schwer design from Hans im Glück that I'll write about in detail soon for those who prefer letters to images.

We recorded about a hundred videos at Spielwarenmesse 2019, and I'll publish as many of them as I can in the next few days before heading to NY Toy Fair 2019. Yes, that's yet another show on the schedule!






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