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Going their separate ways• German publisher/distributor Heidelberger Spieleverlag announced on June 28, 2012 that it has revised its relationship with fellow German publisher/distributor...
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• Quicksilver, as is the case with many a crowdfunded game, is from a newcomer designer and publisher, in this case Paul Imboden and Split Second Games. (KS link) Here's a brief description of...
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• Gen Con, LLC has announced that actor/gamer Wil Wheaton is one of three Media Guests who will be present at the convention. From the press release: "Wheaton will sign autographs Thursday...
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French publisher Matagot has revealed a half-dozen releases due out in the second half of 2012 and the first half of 2013. Let's look at the former first since some or most of them will likely...
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• In what must be a complete non-surprise to gamers – or on the other hand a surprise worthy of a slap on the head – German publisher alea and designer Stefan Feld will continue their...
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• In addition to announcing a resolution to its Merchant of Venus tangle with Fantasy Flight Games, U.S. publisher Stronghold Games has announced its release schedule for the remainder of...
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• The 2012 Austrian game awards have been announced by the Games Committee of the Viennese Games Academy, with the Spiel der Spiele – the game of games – being Marcel-André Casasola...
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• On October 20, 2011, at the annual Spiel game convention in Essen, Germany, U.S. publisher Stronghold Games announced that it had signed a deal with designer Richard Hamblen for a new edition...
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• French publisher Moonster Games will release a new version of Yoshihisa Itsubaki's Streams in September 2012, with rules in English, French and Korean, and Asmodee handling distribution in...
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If you were born in the 1980s, like I was, then you may be familiar with my favorite toy from childhood: Battle Beasts. God, I loved those things. I can remember my folks taking me to Kay-Bee Toy...
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• Designer Bruno Faidutti, who announced in May 2012 that he planned to shutter his website and launch a new blog, has indeed launched that blog, but his Ideal Game Library and the rest of his...
Gen Con Indy 2012 takes place August 16-19, 2012, and as the largest and longest-running game convention in the U.S. – more than forty years! – it's no surprise that U.S. publishers will demo...
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It started with an idea. It wasn't even an idea for a theme or a game – just a mechanism for setting up a game. I wanted to capture the excitement of building decks in collectible card games,...
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• In his BGG blog, designer Ignacy Trzewiczek offers a fun anecdote of pulling a win out of nowhere by discovering things hidden in his own game Witchcraft that he never imagined existed.•...
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I get a remarkable amount of game design work done while I'm busy doing something else. In this instance, "something else" involved driving home at 120 kph (72 mph) after meeting with a...
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• In a June 20, 2012 news post, Gabriel at Ystari Games talks about attending the "Paris est Ludique!" gaming event on June 23-24 and bringing along Olympos (no surprise there), Serenissima (in...
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Hi, gamers! I've received a preview copy of Sheepland, so let's start with a quick preview of that July 2012 release; my full review will appear later on Opinionated Gamers.Cranio Creations:...
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• Tao Wong at Canadian online retailer Starlit Citadel reports on the state and sales of Z-Man Games two months after it went exclusive in the U.S. with Alliance Game Distributors (as covered...
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I still wonder when it first began – but I knew something peculiar was cooking when, during my attempt to flip a pancake fixing yesterday's breakfast, my spatula cut right through not only the...
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• Z-Man Games has officially announced Christian Marcussen's Clash of Cultures, and while the announcement did not come with a release date, Sophie Gravel from Filosofia – which owns Z-Man...
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• I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but some details have dropped for Eclipse: Rise of the Ancients, the "first full-sized expansion" for Touko Tahkokallio's Eclipse, the second printing...
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As I noted in my first crowdfunding round-up post, I'm concentrating all the game-related Kickstarter/IndieGoGo/etc. write-ups in a weekly-ish post so that BGGN readers can ignore/revel in such...
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• In his June 11, 2012 "Rolling for Initiative" column on ICv2, Scott Thorne writes about Wil Wheaton's TableTop after interviewing associate producer Boyan Radakovich (who is the designer of...
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Sometime in the late 1990s I started designing games, mostly card games with the occasional board game popping up here or there. I even came up with a few I was proud of. I was new to the board...
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• Fallen City of Karez will be the first release from newcomer designer/publisher Elad Goldsteen and his Golden Egg Games. Says Goldsteen, "It is a new genre of fantasy game featuring a deep...
• In addition to posting the rules (PDF) for its Dungeon Command series of games, Wizards of the Coast has posted three Dungeon Command previews (to date) by designers Peter Lee and Kevin...
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• Designer Chevee Dodd was interviewed by the podcast Perpetual Geek Machine, and in his 20+ minutes he discusses the origins of Scallywags – newly released from Gamewright – and game...
During my time as a sports writer, I was told that my writing captured emotion and drama and that my readers loved my perspective on the wide world of sports. Additionally, my editor told me my...
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• Designer Mark Rein•Hagen is best known the World of Darkness series of role-playing games, particularly Vampire: The Masquerade, but he's published a few "regular" games as well, the most...
Since mid-May 2012, I've been preparing convention previews for Gen Con 2012 and Spiel 2012 along the lines of what I did for BGG's Spiel 2011 Preview: a huge list of games, alphabetized by...
