Category Archives: Site News

Thanksgiving – time to be thankful for… the start of Essen reviews!

Posted on November 23, 2017 by

For the Americans here – it’s Thanksgiving – a national holiday to give thanks that we’re not Canadian.  No, actually, it’s maybe to give thanks that we’re not British?  Though the original settlers who celebrated the first Thanksgiving still were … Continue reading →

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Game Award Chart (Finally) Updated!

Posted on February 3, 2017 by

Well, it’s still not perfect, but we finally got the Game Award Chart updated. And, by we – I really mean Craig. We’ll try to do a better job of keeping this updated as the awards roll in this year… … Continue reading →

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Italian Game of the Year (Gioco dell’Anno): nominations

Posted on September 14, 2016 by

After months of careful judgments, the Italian Game of the Year (Gioco dell’Anno) committee, officiated by Roberto Genovese with Beatrice Parisi, Fabrizio Paoli (coordinator), Luca Bonora, Riccardo Busetto, Massimiliano Calimera, Fabio Cambiaghi, Paolo Cupola and Caterina Ligabue, nominated this 5 … Continue reading →

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The Opinionated Gamers Preview Essen SPIEL 2016

Posted on August 27, 2016 by

As we do every year, the writers of the Opinionated Gamers will preview some of the new games to be presented at the SPIEL fair in Essen, Germany.  Sadly, as the number of games at the show rises every year, … Continue reading →

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July is for Re-dos, Repeats, Rethemes, Re-releases, Re-prints and more!

Posted on July 1, 2016 by

As we move into the hot summer months, I took a look at my stack of review games and noticed that there are a lot of second comings out right now – whether that be re-releases, re-themes, sequels, re-prints, etc. … Continue reading →

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TBLYP: Throw back leap year post

Posted on February 29, 2016 by

Well, this is only the second leap year post we’ve ever had, and I thought it would be funny to make it be the same one – so let’s take a look back at what we were talking about 4 … Continue reading →

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Gathering of Friends Coverage

Posted on April 9, 2015 by

As some of you may know, the 2015 Gathering of Friends kicks off this week.  As usual, the OG will have plenty of coverage.   This will be my second year attending and I will be attempting to provide more … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year from the Opinionated Gamers

Posted on January 1, 2015 by

Well, we’ve made it through another (calendar) year – and thanks to everyone who continues to read our little blog…  We’re not quite yet to our fourth birthday though – that will be 1/24/2015. When I founded the blog in … Continue reading →

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Italian Games of the Year announced

Posted on October 8, 2014 by

And the winner is … Just a little break in the endless rush of Essen preview/review to announce the best Italian award … Two years ago Italian publishers and Lucca Comics & Games staff had a meeting concerning the evolution … Continue reading →

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HP got games with Ventonuovo

Posted on June 24, 2014 by

I don’t know if this could be a new frontier of the print-and-play or just a singular event but I think it is something of interest to talk about. It was announced during last edition of PLAY: The Games Festival … Continue reading →

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