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Links: Neuroshima Puzzles, 650 Game Summaries & More

A short round-up of links this time to contrast with the huge number of new game announcements being posted here on BGG News:• Want more Neuroshima Hex, even when you don't have an opponent on...

New Game Round-up: Beautiful German Wood, Games to Libya & More

And the games keep on coming. Here's the latest report on what's coming when:• German publisher intellego holzspiele has released yet another fabulous-looking coffee-table game, this one titled...

New Game Round-up: Fantasy Flight Returns to Terrinoth, Nightfall Falls Again & More

Lots of ground to cover this time:• BGG user Scott Weber attended a Realms of Terrinoth event at the Fantasy Flight Games Event Center, and he reports that during the event FFG unveiled a new...

Designer Diary: Figuring Out How to Reach The Heavens of Olympus

The Heavens of Olympus is the culmination of my first major attempt at designing a game. Because of this, I learned a lot of hard lessons about game design while iterating from version to...

Links: Gold for Skull & Roses, Ystari Goes to Press & More

A game news round-up to kick off your weekend, starting with a surprising award winner that hits the market the same day it took home the prize:• The winners of L'As d'Or 2011 – the game of...

Designer Diary: Eselsbrücke – "So This Donkey Walked into a Bar on a Bridge..."

People have always been enchanted by mnemonics as they help us memorize things that might otherwise be forgotten. If you look closely at what mnemonics are, you realize that they are often...

Asmodee 2011 Release Schedule for North America

When you talk about a release schedule for publisher/distributor Asmodee, you have to be clear which part of the world is being discussed as Asmodee has outposts across the globe. Spain, France,...

New Game Round-up: An Early Look at Games on Display at Cannes & More

The French gaming sites are loaded with info about titles that will be released or shown at Festival International des Jeux de Cannes – an annual game festival in Cannes, France taking place...

New Game Round-up: Rolling Freight Rolls Out, Québec Is Ludified & More

A guy takes a couple of days off, and the games spring up everywhere. Let's get to them...• APE Games has launched a Kickstarter funding program for Kevin G. Nunn's Rolling Freight. Said APE's...

Introducing 011, a game and art project combined

 Paolo Vallerga has released a number of games through his own company Scribabs that pay as much attention to the graphics and art as they do to the game design, Star System or Sator Arepo...

More on Mayfair's (and FunFair's) 2011 Release Schedule

Time to follow-up on this Feb. 15, 2011 post in which I laid out the release schedule for Mayfair Games and its new FunFair brand for much of 2011. I've now received the 2011 Mayfair Games...

New Game Round-up: More Race for the Galaxy, More Summoners & More

Lots of info about new games in this round-up, some items referencing material already talked about on BGG and some not:• Designer Tom Lehmann gives an overview of Race for the Galaxy: Alien...

Links: Another Take on NY Toy Fair, Giant Carc Cake & More

Lots of posts from hither, thither and yon – mostly yon:• Herb Levy's Gamers Alliance has a NY Toy Fair 2011 report that covers all the games that I've written about in my Toy Fair reports...

Filosofia Unveils 2011 Release Schedule

Canadian publisher Filosofia – which publishes games in French and licenses editions in English, German and other languages – has released a publishing schedule for 2011. The titles are a mix...

Designer Diary: Digging Through the History of Pergamon

The roots of Pergamon go back to the year 2004. That summer, I visited a number of Greek islands as well as parts of the Turkish west coast. My travels also brought me to the city of Bergama in...

NY Toy Fair 2011: More Views from Afar

So I'm still not at NY Toy Fair this year, but my in-box continues to overflow with material from publishers who are at the show, so I thought I'd post another round-up column of what we're all...

Links: Steve Jackson's Annual Report, Mark Rosewater on Choice & More

A sampling of game news floating through the aether, starting with the Munchkin behemoth...• According to Steve Jackson's 2011 Report to Stakeholders, Steve Jackson Games grossed $3.5 million...

Sitting in Trafffic, Solving Puzzles

Trafffic, from designer Annick Lobet, is the first title to be published in both English and French from Quebec publisher Le Scorpion Masqué.The game is played simultaneously, with 2-4 players...

Mayfair Games Unveils 2011 Line-up for Mayfair & Funfair

U.S. publisher Mayfair Games has unveiled not one, but two game release schedules for 2011 – one for the Mayfair Games brand proper, and another for its new FunFair brand, which includes games...

New Titles Coming from Cranio Creations

Italian publisher Cranio Creations, which debuted in 2009 with Horse Fever, has revealed details of three new games coming from the company. Here's an overview of the trio of titles:Dungeon...

Designer Diary: The Somewhat Bizarre History of Trollhalla

The game Trollhalla came about through the designer's momentary bewilderment in the canyonlands of Southern Utah, by way of the imagined ploddings of African elephants, courtesy of Viking...

Nürnberg 2011: Reports from Around the Web

The 2011 Nürnberg Toy Fair ended last week and the games shown at the convention will hit stores over the next ten months – which might give you enough time to make it through all these...

Design a Ticket to Ride Map for a Chance to Win $10,000

Look through the files on Ticket to Ride's game page here on BGG, and you'll find lots of fan-created maps for this Spiel des Jahres winner. Springfield, France, Mexico, South America, Africa,...

Links – Warcraft Disappears, Schmidt Makes Millions & More

• On February 9, 2011, U.S. publisher Fantasy Flight Games posted the following news item:Quote:After nearly ten years of publishing best-selling board games based in Blizzard Entertainment's...

Designer Diary: Riding the Train of Thought to Publication

Editor's note: Since Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim designed Train of Thought together, it made sense that the designer diary would also be written by both of them, but since BGG News doesn't have...

New Game Round-up – Dwarves, Monsters, More Monsters and More

Tidbits on upcoming games from a variety of publishers:• Designer Bruno Faidutti has posted more details about The Dwarf King, a trick-taking card game based on Barbu that IELLO will release in...

FRED Distribution Prepares a Tsunami of Sid Sackson Titles

Two days ago, FRED Distribution announced that it had acquired Face2Face Games from owner/president Larry Whalen. Now FRED has unveiled plans for how it will handle the biggest part of the...

Jolly Roger Games Brings You Pirates, Dinosaurs & Vacations

Jim Dietz at U.S. publisher Jolly Roger Games has passed along an update of games in progress at JRG.Artist Josh Cappel has been busy working on Pirates vs. Dinosaurs from designer Richard...

Pastiche – Sean D. MacDonald Talks Art and (Game) Design

Designer Sean D. MacDonald has released a few of his own game designs through NoMADS GAMES, most recently the tricky card game The Crow and the Pitcher in 2009, but this year MacDonald will see...

Asmadi Games Opens Preorders for Innovation: Echoes of the Past

U.S. pubilsher Asmadi Games has announced that preorders are open for Carl Chudyk's Innovation: Echoes of the Past, an expansion for the 2010 card game Innovation that is scheduled to debut in...