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Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2025 (Part 20)
After the Gathering of Friends finishes, I fly over to Salt Lake City. I take a day off after flying in with a cold on no sleep, no food, ending up with fevers and chills. But the next day I … Continue reading
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Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2025 (Part 18)
One of the notable differences between normal gaming conventions and the Gathering is the number of high profile designers walking around and the relatively high proportion of prototypes on the tables be they works in progress, or close to final … Continue reading
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Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2025 (Part 11)
I played the new Athena expansion for Akropolis recently which I thought elevated the game. The original is fine but it felt too old-school for me – draft and play tiles in scoring combos on your tableau, repeat X times. … Continue reading
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Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2025 (Part 10)
It seems to have happened so often in the last little while. I play something that wasn’t great, look it up later on BGG when I’m writing my snapshot, see it has 3 or more designers and I immediately jump … Continue reading
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Ten Years of Opinionated Gaming
I posted my first game review to this site 10 years ago today. It was a review of Hare & Tortoise, the first entry in my 36-part series revisiting the Spiel des Jahres winners. Each entry featured not only a … Continue reading
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Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2025 (Part 22)
Before BGG started in Sep 2000, public discourse on games was mostly held on a reddit-type discussion board on Usenet called rec.games.board. For those who were around back then, this is the place where Scott Peterson had multiple colourful … Continue reading →
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