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New Game Round-up: Dice in the West, Predators in the Aliens, Investments in Wonga & Playing in the World

• Diceperados from Keewoong Kim, designer of King's Pouch, is one of three releases scheduled for 2015 from Divedice/Korea Boardgames, and here's an overview of the game from the...

Videos from Spielwarenmesse 2015 II: Auf den Spuren von Marco Polo, Mein erstes Bohnanza, Bubble Bomb, Spinderella & Oh nein! Die Schnackelstein!

• Designers Simone Luciani and Daniele Tascini won the 2012 Premio Archimede, an Italian game design competition with Auf den Spuren von Marco Polo. That same year they made a public name for...

Lost Cities Returns to the U.S. Market; Other Kosmos Titles to Appear, Too

Reiner Knizia's Lost Cities, a long-time introductory item to modern game design on the U.S. market, has been out of print for a few years, but now original German publisher KOSMOS is bringing...

Crowdfunding Round-up: Drugs and Deities, Hyborians and Hepcats, Cones and Cadets & Yes, Exploding Kittens, Too

Man, it feels like I haven't done one of these crowdfunding round-ups in forever, and since the most recent one was from December 2014, that's kind of true. Six weeks is like eighteen months in...

Videos from Spielwarenmesse 2015 I: Pandemic: State of Emergency, Merchants & Marauders: Seas of Glory, Sylvion, Targets & Piratoons

• Time to start video coverage of another convention, this time Spielwarenmesse 2015, the annual toy and game fair in Nürnberg, Germany that is massively massive.Seriously, you think that...

New Game Round-up: Updates, Spinoffs and Expansions for Stronghold, Fire & Axe, Dead of Winter, Pax Porfiriana & More

• Stronghold Games and Portal Games have collectively announced a new edition of Ignacy Trzewiczek's Stronghold, labeling this second edition a "reprinting and reworking" of the game first...

Pics from Spielwarenmesse 2015 I: Catan: Das Spiel, Broom Service, CardLine Marvel & Star Wars Carcassonne

As was the case in 2013 and 2014, BoardGameGeek showed up at the 2015 Spielwarenmesse — the giant toy and game fair held annually in Nürnberg, Germany — with John Knoerzer and me filming...

New Game Round-up: A Restocked Temple of Elemental Evil, A New Look for Catan & Extra! Extra! Heads to Press

• The Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Board Game series, which plopped out three titles in 2010 and 2011 — Castle Ravenloft, The Legend of Drizzt, and Wrath of Ashardalon — will have a new...

New Game Round-up: El Grande Goes Big, Marco Polo Goes East, Queen Goes for Parfum & Monsters Go Boom

• German publisher Hans im Glück has released information about two titles due out in early 2015, with one of them being the long-awaited return of Wolfgang Kramer and Richard Ulrich's Spiel...

New Game Round-up: Pegasus Spiele in 2015 — Mages & Monkeys, Mokka & Mombasa and Much More

• I added a half-dozen new releases from Pegasus Spiele to BGG's Nürnberg/New York 2015 Preview in early January 2015, but since they were German editions of earlier releases, I didn't...

Game 411/Video Overview: Rise to Power

Rule & Make is an Australian publisher founded in 2013 by Alistair Kearney and Allen Chang, who are also the designers of its first release: Rise to Power. This card-driven, quasi-city-building...

Two Changes to the BGG Database: Playing Time and Integrable Games

This post features news about BGG, not game news on BGG, so feel free to skip it should such a post not interest you. I'm including the news here, though, because I'm one of the admins who...

More on the Asmodee, Ystari, Pearl Games Connection; Asmodee by the Numbers (Image Heavy)

On Jan. 21, 2015, I published an article titled "Asmodee Has (Apparently) Acquired Ystari Games and Pearl Games", with the article pointing out (courtesy of a head's up from Swiss blog Gus and...

New Game Round-up: Five-and-a-Half New Titles from Eggertspiele in 2015 from Kramer, Kiesling, Friese, the Brands & More

Viktor Schulz from eggertspiele says that the publisher will have no finished games ready at Spielwarenmesse, but multiple titles are in the works for release in 2015, starting with the delivery...

New Game Round-up: Foxy Bluffing Madness in the Dungeon from IELLO & Broom Service from Alea

• I've covered some of the new items coming from IELLO and its distribution partners in the first half of 2015 — new art for a new version of Stefan Dorra's Nyet!; a reimplementation of...

Asmodee Has (Apparently) Acquired Ystari Games and Pearl Games

Marabunta, for those who don't know, is a publishing brand within Asmodee that was founded in 2012 and that debuted with the release of Paolo Mori's Libertalia. As I noted in 2012, Marabunta is...

New Game Round-up: Driving in German Kraftwagen, Working in the Big Easy & Chewing in the Workplace

• In addition to running Spielworxx, developer Uli Blennemann is also brand manager of board games for ADC Blackfire Entertainment GmbH and he's overseeing the work on Matthias Cramer's...

New Game Round-up: A Quartet from KOSMOS — Paths of Fire, Customers with Hunger, Clay with Kneads & Raccoons of Adventure

• Another day brings another wave of titles announced by one of the German publishers that will be showcasing its future releases at Spielwarenmesse 2015. This time the spotlight is on KOSMOS,...

New Game Round-up: Kites from Kotarski, Hands from Van Den Bulk & Drilling from Laurie and Jolly

• While looking for news of games that will show up at Spielwarenmesse 2015 in Nürnberg, I ran across a case of games that would be there from a publisher that wouldn't. Dutch publisher White...

New Game Round-up: Yomi Fights for Release, Mr. B Games Announces Big Plans & ABACUSSPIELE Readies Jumbo Cacao Mammoths

• In 2014, David Sirlin of Sirlin Games ran a Kickstarter campaign for Yomi (second edition), a revamped version of his fighting card game Yomi that had debuted in 2011. That initial version of...

Fresh Releases and Imports from Blue Orange Games – Attila, R, Crab Stack, Thumbs Up! & More

• Time for more overviews of new games that will be on display at the toy fairs in Nürnberg, Germany and New York City, but in this case many of the same games will be featured by two...

New Game Round-up: Smash Up Epic Fantasy Characters, Deliver Sweet Desserts, Fight New Villains & Ship Goods to Osaka

• AEG and Fun to 11 have announced a partnership for publication of Epic PVP: Fantasy, a card game from Ryan Miller and Fun to 11's Luke Peterschmidt that sounds like a twist on the...

New Game Round-up: New Adventures for Dominion, New Tickets for Zug um Zug & New Almes for the Poor Gamers Who Want More Almes

• As noted on BGG News in Oct. 2014, the supposed final expansion for Dominion — Dominion: Guilds in 2013 — has turned out to be the penultimate expansion for Dominion (at least for now)...

Game 411: Heat

The response to my first "Game 411" post — which presented an overview of the Uwe Rosenberg design Patchwork — was fairly positive, so let's try another one, this time featuring Dave...

New Game Round-up: Lewis & Clark Leads to Discoveries, Building The Front Nine & Before Greenland, Neaderthals

• While some publishers are announcing new titles for the first half of 2015, titles that they'll show off in January and February at the Spielwarenmesse in Germany or New York Toy Fair in the...

New Game Round-up: Expand Suburbia, Embrace Vikings & Encounter Bravest Warriors — Someday

• Designer/publisher Ted Alspach of Bezier Games has announced a second expansion for his Mensa-award winning Suburbia: Suburbia 5★, which adds fifty new building tiles to the game, five new...

Game 411: Patchwork

As an experiment, I've put together this photo series of Uwe Rosenberg's Patchwork, released in Europe by Lookout Spiele and in North America by Mayfair Games, along with an overview of how to...

Designer Diary: The Muse of Musée and How to Pronounce It!

Musée is a 30-minute card-laying game for 2-4 players from Eagle-Gryphon Games. Collect and curate fine art! Score by filling up and carefully theming your art museum!First things first — how...

New Game Round-up: Make Gum, Solve Codes, Publish Papers, Collect Gold & Um, Collect Gold

• Time for a few more announcements of games that will be shown off at the Spielwarenmesse trade show in Nürnberg, Germany, with short (very short!) descriptions of a few titles from HUCH! &...

New Game Round-up: Rule the Cacao Fields, Rescue Us from Bombs & Return to Tigris & Euphrates for Arabian Nights

• On Dec. 10, 2014, I tweeted the cover image of a new edition of Reiner Knizia's Tigris & Euphrates from Fantasy Flight Games. FFG had provided only the cover to the press — no information...