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NY Toy Fair 2012: Mayfair Games Tells You What It Told You & A Bit More

At the 2012 New York Toy Fair, U.S. publisher Mayfair Games was showing off Giza: The Great Pyramid from designer Dave Heberer, which was released in January 2012 as well as Fréderic Moyersoen's...

Links: Steve Jackson Games Makes More Millions, Takenoko Wins As d'Or & Nearly 100 Years of Questionable Games

• Repos Production is inviting suggestions for the "Semiramis" card that will appear in 7 Wonders: Cities. To participate in the contest, which runs through Feb. 29, participants must like...

New Game Round-up: Alcatraz Gets Bigger, New Spaceships from Old, Birds in Flight & a Trio of IndieGoGo Projects

• Polish publisher Kuźnia Gier has announced an expansion for Alcatraz: The Scapegoat that will likely be released at Spiel 2012. For now Kuźnia Gier's Piotr Żuchowski has revealed only that...

NY Toy Fair 2012: Playroom Entertainment Expands Existing Lines: Drei Magier, Bright Idea & One Million Bunnies

Playroom Entertainment and Killer Bunnies go hand-in-hand, and while the U.S. publisher is indeed extending its KB line in 2012, it also has a bunch of other titles on the go, starting with a...

NY Toy Fair 2012: Steve Jackson Games Does What It Does Best – Munchkin, Zombies, Cthulhu & More

I've already covered a bit of what's coming from Steve Jackson Games in 2012 – in this post a half-dozen new colors of Cthulhu Dice and a new set of six Munchkin Level Counters; in this post a...

NY Toy Fair 2012: R&R Lives Up to Its Name with a Trio of Party Games

So, New York Toy Fair 2012 – an event that ended on the previous Wednesday and to which I'm only now getting around to reporting on in detail (aside from my overview of how the hobby and...

Designer Diary: Warriors & Traders – The Beginning of the Adventure

Warriors & Traders is a pure strategy, historical game, combining several mechanisms including area control, action point allowance and trading. It falls under the category of light civilization...

Nuremburg 2012: Murmel Spielwerkstatt und Verlag Video Report

Here's our final batch of videos from Nuremberg 2012 - this time featuring a load of older and newer games from Murmel Spielwerkstatt und Verlag AG:Triapon, "Women, Life, Quality.ch", Sansi,...

New Game Round-up: Alain Epron Times Two, Alcatraz from Z-Man & Promos for Dominant Thunderstone Species Advance

 • Designer Alain Epron is going the crowdsourcing route for a reprint of Spiel 2011 hit Vanuatu, but with IndieGoGo being the crowdfunding vehicle of choice instead of Kickstarter.Epron...

Designer Diary: The Long Path of the Farmer

"This is definitely better than your last game." Believe it or not, that back-handed compliment delivered shortly after the first playtest of Farmageddon was when I thought I might have something...

NY Toy Fair 2012: Hobby Becomes Mainstream, and Vice Versa

On Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, I blazed through New York Toy Fair in seven hours and undoubtedly missed dozens of new games on display at the show. I plan to follow up with the contacts listed on the...

Nürnberg 2012: ABACUSSPIELE Video Report

One video from ABACUSSPIELE - Africana. Thanks to Scott A. Reed (skelebone) United StatesLawrenceKansas Patron Badge for 2004 through 2022 for the video report.

Nürnberg 2012: Gigamic Video Report

Here's an overview of several new releases from Gigamic: Panic Lab, Next!, Home Sweet Home, Colorpop, and Tea Time. Thanks to Scott A. Reed (skelebone) United StatesLawrenceKansas Patron Badge...

Nürnberg 2012: Booth Walk

Here's some video from the floor to give you an idea of the magnitude of the toy fair. Kick back and enjoy the soothing sounds of some of my favorite classical tracks, and pretend you are there...

Nürnberg 2012: Zoch Verlag Video Report

Here's an overview of several new releases from Zoch Verlag: Wollmilchsau, Tante Trudels Trödel, Riff Raff, Fox's Party, Flossen hoch!, Aquileia, Alles Tomate!.

New Game Round-up: Mage Knight Returns in April, Portal Presents Crusoe and Armies (But Not Together) & Alain Epron Also Has a Dice Game for 2012

• WizKids has announced that the second printing of Vlaada Chvátil's Mage Knight: Board Game has a U.S. street date of April 18, 2012. As for those gamers outside the U.S., WizKids' Scott...

Nürnberg 2012: Schmidt Spiele Video Report

Here's an overview of two new releases from Schmidt Spiele: Step by Step and Das Ligretto Fußballspiel. Thanks to Scott A. Reed (skelebone) United StatesLawrenceKansas Patron Badge for 2004...

Nürnberg 2012: Kosmos Video Report

Here's an overview of several new releases from KOSMOS:Waka Waka, Ubongo Trigo, Ubongo Junior, Star Trek: Catan, Spinnengift und Krötenschleim, Piranhas, Kraterschreck im Mondversteck, Grill...

Nürnberg 2012: Ravensburger Video Report

Here's an overview of several new releases from KOSMOS: Lucky Numbers, Maus-getrixt, Indigo, Farmerama, and Connections Thanks to Scott A. Reed (skelebone) United StatesLawrenceKansas Patron...

New Game Round-up: Kick Button in France, Use Sleeper Agents in France & Build a Snowdonia Railway (Not in France)

• French publisher Jactalea has unveiled details on the "button game" hinted at in its New Year's announcement, mentioned on BGG News in January 2012. Button Up! is a small abstract game from...

Nürnberg 2012: eggertspiele Video Report

Here's an overview of several new releases from eggertspiele: Village, Spectaculum, and Milestones. Thanks to Scott A. Reed (skelebone) United StatesLawrenceKansas Patron Badge for 2004 through...

Nürnberg 2012: alea Video Report

Here's an overview of the 2 new alea releases: Saint Malo and Las Vegas. Thanks to Scott A. Reed (skelebone) United StatesLawrenceKansas Patron Badge for 2004 through 2022 for the video report.

Nürnberg 2012: Queen Games Video Report

Here's an overview of several new releases from Queen Games: Urbanization, Maharani, Edo, and Escape: The Curse of the Temple Thanks to Scott A. Reed (skelebone) United StatesLawrenceKansas...

New Releases for 2012: Asmodee Times Three

Announcing upcoming game releases from Asmodee can be tough because there isn't a single entity titled "Asmodee" from which the games are issuing. Rather Asmodee has multiple divisions around the...

Links: Ascending to Marriage, Hasbro Gets Money for Nothing & The Return of Le Havre

• Designer Wolfgang Kramer is interviewed for ZDF tivi, which I believe is a German children's television show, on how he does what he does – i.e., design games that go on to win awards like...

Nürnberg 2012: Friedemann Friese's Fabulous Friday Feat and Cyril Demaegd on Serenissima and Essen Spiel News

Intrepid reporter Scott Reed was able to capture an update from Friedemann Friese about his Friday (Black Friday & Friday) project - this one sounds very interesting and ambitious! Also, an...

New Game Round-up: Rosenberg on Würfel Bohnanza, Easier Empire Building & No Hoth for the U.S.?

• Designer Uwe Rosenberg writes about the development of Würfel Bohnanza – just out now in Germany – on the AMIGO Spiel website. (PDF link on the bottom of this page.) Rosenberg talks...

Nürnberg 2012: Lessons Learned

For my last entry about the 2012 Nürnberg Toy Fair, I was going to post a few more board game pictures, but I've just read the pictorial review by Daniel Danzer (duchamp) here on BGG News and...

Nürnberg 2012 Re-View: 94 Pictures of 36 Games

My Nürnberg 2012 experience was – well – cold (18 degrees below zero Celsius). The days at the fair went by fast: I shot video interviews for SAZ (Spiele-Autoren-Zunft, or the Game...

Designer Diary & Game Preview: Gunship: First Strike!

It's taken twenty long years to get Gunship: First Strike! from the drafting table to the gaming table. This is the story of how my initial concept evolved over many years to turn into something...