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New Game Round-up: Crashing Through 2014, Cutting Cake for a Happy Birthday & Raising the Lighter on the Cities of Darkscorch

• U.S. publisher Crash Games has announced that Michael Eskue's Council of Verona has been picked up by French publisher Ferti for release in Europe and Canada.What's more, Crash's Patrick...

Crowdfunding Round-up: Nile-Trippers, Tile-Flippers, Cheese-Nippers, Tiger-Strippers, Cargo-Shippers & Jack the Rippers

Yes, another crowdfunding round-up already! Let's see how quickly I can race through these projects, while also stepping outside the usual Kickstarter borders along the way.• U.S. publisher...

Crowdfunding Round-up: Futuristic Baseball, Transported Heroes from the Past & Present Day Mysteries Reborn

Can you believe it's already time for another round-up of game-related crowdfunding projects? Mind you, it's not like such posts are on an official schedule, but rather a "let's clear out my...

Game Overview: Gravwell: Escape from the 9th Dimension

At Gen Con 2013, I spoke with designer Corey Young in the BGG booth and previewed his game Gravwell: Escape from the 9th Dimension, which publisher Cryptozoic Entertainment had in limited supply...

New Game Round-up: From Media to Games with Regular Show, Bravest Warriors & Video Game High School

• Cryptozoic Entertainment has the Bravest Warriors Co-operative Dice Game due out in July 2014, as noted in this BGGN post, but apparently it's not the only game company to snag a license for...

New Game Round-up: Magicians Practice Vudù, Robots Rescue Jupiter & Attack Wing Moves from SF to F

• In early February 2014, I linked on Facebook to a post about WizKids Games making miniatures for Dungeons & Dragons. I don't cover role-playing games, after all, but I thought folks might...

NY Toy Fair 2014 — Game Previews III: Sushi Go!, Pyramix, Dodge Dice, Over/Under & Space Spinners

• Hoo boy, I gotta get moving on all these videos that I recorded at NY Toy Fair 2014, not to mention those still languishing from Spielwarenmesse 2014, which opened six weeks ago and is...

Designer Diary: Mad City, or My Longest and Shortest Design Yet

I guess it could be true for me to say that Mad City was the game I designed the fastest — and from a certain point of view also the game that took me the longest to design.Around 1999 or 2000,...

Game Preview: AbluXXen, or Oh, You Didn't Want Those Cards, Did You?

This year of 2014 is just over two months old, but I might have already found my game of the year in AbluXXen, a card game from Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling that German publisher...

New Game Round-up: A Trio of Space Cadets, Desperados Moves from Darts to Dice & Friese's Future Funken

• In addition to Space Cadets: Away Missions (a 1-6 player standalone co-operative game due out Q4 2014) and Space Cadets: Dice Duel - Die Fighter (an expansion for the team-based Space Cadets:...

Spielwarenmesse 2014 — Game Previews XII: Desperados of Dice Town, Korrigans, Brenn, Metal Cards Adventures and More from Matagot

• In honor of Festival International des Jeux, the annual game festival in Cannes, France — which I'm watching only from the sidelines, alas, while sharing photos from others on my Facebook...

Extraditing Penguins from Westeros, a.k.a. Updating BGG's Policy on Game Merges

Separated at birth?So, funny thing — it turns out that a lot of BGG users have a problem with the game listing for Penguin being transformed into a shared game listing with Game of Thrones:...

New Game Round-up: Lookout's Line-up for 2014, Twenty Years of Busted Fingers & Playing for Love

• German publisher Lookout Games has presented an overview of its release plans for 2014, and while I have only the barest of details about most of the games, I still thought it best to share...

Crowdfunding Round-up: Arcadia DreadBall Inception of Convicted Pijin Stones after a Coup in Tokaido Town Center

• And the crowdfunded projects just keep on coming, but since so many of them collect their desired funds from the crowd, why wouldn't they? Witness the debut of the Collector's Edition of...

Game Preview: DC Comics Deck-Building Game: Heroes Unite

One of the things that's amazed me about the success of The Avengers, The Dark Knight, Man of Steel, Captain America: The First Avenger, and other recent superhero-based movies is that few people...

New Game Round-up: Fantasy Flight Reboots Knizia, Z-Man Rereleases Carcassonne Minis & Patients Relapse into Acute Care

• U.S. publisher Fantasy Flight Games has announced the mid-2014 release of a quick-playing, dice-based conquest game from designer Reiner Knizia titled Age of War, and the design turns out to...

Spielwarenmesse 2014 — Game Previews XI: Scharfe Schoten, Leg los!, Cherry Picking, Putz die Wutz, Zicke Zacke Ei Ei Ei & Enigma from Zoch Verlag

• Yes, I still have more game preview videos to run through from the vast archives that John K. and I shot at Spielwarenmesse 2014, the annual toy and game fair held in Nürnberg, Germany. This...

New Game Round-up: Cryptozoic's 2014 Line-Up — Walkers and Villains, Heroes and Hobbits, Ninja and the NHL, Plus Cake!

U.S. publisher Cryptozoic Entertainment has unveiled a plethora of forthcoming releases for 2014, and I've summarized them below with more complete descriptions usually being available on each...

NY Toy Fair 2014 — Game Previews II: Guess the Mess, Get a Life, Strike a Pose & Hearts of AttrAction from R&R Games

• While I shot a dozen or so game preview videos at NY Toy Fair in mid-February 2014, much of the time I just wrote down notes on gameplay and took catalog brochures, trying to hit as many...

Spielwarenmesse 2014 — Game Previews X: Venezia 2099, Tricky Tracks, Dice Run, Bug Race & 1944: Monty vs. Patton - Race to the Rhine

• Weeks after Spielwarenmesse 2014 — the annual toy and game fair in Nürnberg, Germany — I'm still publishing game preview videos that John K. and I recorded at the show. What's up with...

New Game Round-up: Munchkin, Mars, Mating & More from Steve Jackson Games in 2014

While at NY Toy Fair 2014, I met with Steve Jackson Games' Phil Reed, and he presented an overview of some of the company's releases for 2014, which (not surprisingly based on SJG's sales...

NY Toy Fair 2014 — Game Previews I: Mars Attacks: The Dice Game, Ticket to Ride: 10th Anniversary, Chopstick Dexterity MegaChallenge 3000 & Gale Force Nine's Line-up

• I spent just one day at NY Toy Fair 2014 — the annual toy and game trade fair held in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on the west side of Manhattan, and not even a full day at that...

Crowdfunding Round-up: Ships and Shrimp, Holmes and Heroes, Art and Aeronauts & Much More

• Yes, I just ran a crowdfunding post the other day, but that slacker Riddle barely covered anything, focusing solely on games that he appeared to be interested in backing — as if that's some...

Crowdfunding Round-up: Peppers, Druids, Dragons, Dynasties and Proof that Even Google Thinks W. Eric Sucks

It's award season! The Oscars, the Golden Globes, the Emmys, the Super Bowl, and most importantly the Golden Geeks! I am particularly partial to a certain title in the card game category, but...

Spielwarenmesse 2014 — Game Previews IX: Mauerhüpfer, Skull King, Big Deal, Larry, Karten Kniffel, Marvel League, Würfel Bingo & Mensch ärgere Dich nicht: Das Kartenspiel

• Time for another round-up of game preview videos recorded at Spielwarenmesse 2014 — the annual toy and game fair in Nürnberg, Germany — with the spotlight turning on German publisher...

Days of Wonder Goes Big for the Ticket to Ride: 10th Anniversary Edition

The U.S./French publisher Days of Wonder was founded in 2002, but it rose to prominence in 2004 with the release of Alan R. Moon's Ticket to Ride, which won the 2004 Spiel des Jahres and seemed...

New Game Round-up: Adventures with The Witcher, in the Rocket Patrol and Through Evolutionary History

• Hmm, "old" news from January 2014 but something not covered previously in this space: According to The Witcher website, U.S. publisher Fantasy Flight Games will publish The Witcher Adventure...

Spielwarenmesse 2014 — Game Previews VIII: Akrotiri, Tichu, Arboretum, Pocket Battles & The Battle of Kemble's Cascade

• Today's round-up of videos from Spielwarenmesse 2014 — the annual toy and game fair held in Nürnberg, Germany — differs from others as I'm interlacing a fair amount of written material...

New Game Round-up: War and Peace in Archipelago, Escaping Prisoners in Alcatraz & German Foxes in America

• Designer Christophe Boelinger, who runs French publisher Ludically, has announced a new expansion for his 2012 release Archipelago. Here's what you'll find in Archipelago: War & Peace, which...

Spielwarenmesse 2014 — Game Previews VII: Norderwind, Dimension, Burgenland, Matchball & AbluXXen

• Time for another handful of preview videos recorded at Spielwarenmesse 2014 — the annual toy and game fair at Nürnberg, Germany — starting with the remainder of the videos we shot in the...