These are games I'd like to sell or trade. I am in Uijongbu. Call me 010-9879-8406 for details. Updated Nov. 3rd 2005 Kill Dr. Lucky Counting Sheep Blink ...
We have a new episode of The Dice Tower! Joe, my partner in gab, and I have put together yet another episode in our series. In this episode, we talk about our...
I tread with a very careful step to review Sleeping Queens (Gamewright,2005 - Mrianda Evarts), simply because of the designer. And this is because she is a...
Interviews by an Optimist # 77, with Gary Christiansen, board member of the Columbus Area Boardgame Society, has been posted. He gives some great insights...
When a teenager, I designed dozens of board games, using only my knowledge of the few board games that I had at that point as a reference. All of these board...
Musings on # 20, about the recently republished Ra (Knizia) has been posted. Extreme opposing viewpoints in this one. You can find it at my site at ...
I'm a big fan of fantasy role-playing style games; and so when I heard about Runebound (Fantasy Flight Games, 2004 - Martin Wallace), I was intrigued for...
Interviews by an Optimist # 78 - with J. T. Kauffman, who developed an expansion for Allegiance: War of Factions, and currently works with Temple games, has...
As soon as I saw Plext (SimplyFun, 2005 - Alvin Madden) and read the rules, I knew that my wife would enjoy it. Word games are fascinating to us as a couple,...
With the furor raised by the controversial novel The Davinci Code, it's certainly not surprising to see several games on the subject. One of them, DaVinci's...
We have a new episode of The Dice Tower! Joe, my wargamer buddy, and I have put together yet another episode in our series. In this episode, we talk about our...
We have a new episode of The Dice Tower! Joe, my right hand man, and I have put together yet another episode in our series. In this episode,we take a break...
Every once in a while, a game comes out with which I have the reaction, "Why didn't anyone else think of this before?" I mean, the gulf between miniature...
Tom, Thanks for reviewing this! I saw this at Walmart locally for $8.99 and was tempted to buy it, but wasn't sure if it would be a dog. ;-) Guess i'll drop it...
We have a new episode of The Dice Tower! Joe, my ever present partner, and I have put together yet another episode in our series. In this episode,we answer a...
For the latest Musings On.., we debate the sometimes "hot" topic of whether or not playtesters should rate the games they're involved with. You can find the...
As of today, my blog, the Dice Tower, and Musings On... will be exclusive to www.boardgamenews.com, although references and archives of them will still be...
Which of us haven't sat around with our friends and debated (sometimes in a rather ferocious manner) over some issue that was extremely important, or somewhat...
I thought that Feudo, from Zugames, was a tremendous release of 2004 - combining a nice war game with "designer" tendencies, producing an excellent hybrid. As...
Since it's apparently all the rage to make up Top 100 lists, I thought I'd jump in on the bandwagon. Actually, as a speaker at the Malaysian game conference...
When I first read over the rules for Shacru, which is one of the three games included in Pacru (Pacru Ltd., 2004 - Mike Wellman), I immediately thought of the...
Interviews by an Optimist # 81, with Mikko Saari, noted Finnish game reviewer and blogger, has been posted. http://www.thedicetower.com/interviews/int081.htm ...
Episode 27 of the Dice Tower has been posted, which can be found here: http://www.boardgamenews.com/index.php/boardgamenews/C28/ In this episode, Tom Vasel and...
This is what happens when you post two reviews at the same time. Point # 7 under my Havoc review actually goes under my Siena review. Sorry about the confusion...
We've posted the latest version of the Dice Tower, our board game podcast. http://www.boardgamenews.com/index.php/boardgamenews/C28/ In this one, we're giving...
The cover of the box for Shark Park (Tenki Games, 2005 - Piero Cioni) will be immediately recognized by anyone who has kids, as it looks like it comes straight...