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Planet Defenders – Essen Preview
Planet Defenders – Essen Preview Designed By Wei-Min Ling Artist Maisherly Publisher EmperorS4 Games 2-4 Players 30-60 min In Planet Defenders players are trying to capture wayward robots using the 3 super planet defenders robots. To do this players use … Continue reading
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Mary Dimercurio Prasad: Review of My Village
A review of the board game My Village by Stronghold and Eggertspiele including a short comparison to Village. Continue reading
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2015 Designer of the Year Award: Upon Further Consideration…
As most regular readers of this website know, every February I post my Designer of the Year article, in which I choose the person who I feel created the best collection of games during the previous calendar year. One of … Continue reading
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Dastardly Dirigibles (Game Review)
Designers: Justin De Witt Publishers: Fireside Games Players: 2-5 Time: 60 minutes Ages: 8+ Times Played: 6 (with review copy provided by Fireside Games) OK, let’s get this out of the way: the name of this game always … Continue reading
International Gamers Awards – winners announced!
The International Gamers Awards committee has announced the recipients for the 2016 IGA in the General Strategy category: In the multi-player category, the award goes to Mombasa, the creation of award winning designer Alexander Pfister and published by eggertspiele. Rather … Continue reading
Stellar Conflict – Taking Light Speed to Warp Speed (Game Review)
Designers: James Ernest & Tom Jolly (Light Speed) Anastasios Grigoriadis & Konstantinos Kokkinis (developed Stellar Conflict) Publishers: Artipia Games & Stronghold Games Players: 2-4 Time: 10 minutes Ages: 10+ Times Played: 9 (with review copy of provided by Stronghold … Continue reading
Bear Valley (Game Review)
Designer: Carl Chudyk Publisher: Stronghold Games Players: 2-6 Time: 15-30 minutes Ages: 8+ Times Played: 9 (with review copy of provided by Stronghold Games) Bears, bears, they got no cares Bears don’t drink from a cup Sharp teeth and … Continue reading
Area 51 – A First Look
Area 51 – A First Look By Stefan Alexander Art by Christian Opperer Publisher – Mücke Spiele Ages: 12+ Length: ~15 minutes per player Players: 2 – 6 players (probably best with 3-4) First Look by Jonathan Franklin Have … Continue reading
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2015 Meeples Choice Award Winners
The voting for the Meeples Choice Awards has ended. 30 games were nominated during the preliminary round and during the final round, the following three games were chosen: CODENAMES FOOD CHAIN MAGNATE THE VOYAGES OF MARCO POLO Codenames was the … Continue reading
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Nominees for 2015 Meeples Choice Awards
Well, the Spielfrieks user group just finished the first round of voting for the 2015 Meeples Choice Awards (using our spanking new voting application). There was a 7-way tie for 24th, so we wound up with 30 nominated games. It’s a … Continue reading
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