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...
The game Ooga! (SimplyFun, 2005 - Dominique Ehrhard and Pierre-Nicolas Lapointe) sounds like "Tim the Tool Man" from Home Improvement invented it. It's a game...
I have been following Chris Brook's blog for a couple years now, as I consider it one of the best on the web. When I heard that he and his fellow gamers were...
Episode 30 of the Dice Tower has been posted! http://www.boardgamenews.com/index.php/boardgamenews/C28/ In this episode, we take a break from our normal...
I love a game that has a bluffing factor to it. I really stink at such games, but they are so much fun to play that I disregard my shear horrible play....
As soon as I saw the name and artwork for Holey Cow! (Briarpatch, 2005 - P. Joseph Shumaker, Jr.), I was sure that I would enjoy the game. I'm a fan of...
I first played Manila (Rio Grande Games, 2005 - Franz-Benno Delonge) at Origins 2005. As soon as the first game was over, I immediately wanted to play it...
When Eagle games first started producing games, such as War: Age of Imperialism, and The American Civil War, they took a lot of heat online, with comments such...
From the very first moment that I played Elasund: the First City (Mayfair Games, 2005 - Klaus Teuber), I could tell that it was a game inspired by Herr Teuber....
A few years ago, I reviewed the game Affenraffen. In it, I stated, "The game does not require much brainpower at all to play. There are very few strategic...
If you ever have the pleasure of being at the same convention as James Miller, count yourself a fortunate person. James carries around a crate of games and is...
We've posted the latest version of the Dice Tower, our board game podcast. http://www.boardgamenews.com/index.php/boardgamenews/C28/ In this episode, we review...
(I assume that readers of this review already know how to play Memoir '44) When Memoir first came out, I wrote a review, reveling about how rumors of...
(I assume that readers of this review already know how to play Memoir '44) This review will be short, simply because the expansion Memoir '44: Winter/Desert...
The problem with most trivia games is that they reward the person who has the biggest stockpile of useless, obscure knowledge. Sometimes this can be...
Lasers are cool. Deflexion (Deflexion, 2005 - Del Sugura, Luke Hopper, and Michael Larson) has lasers. That automatically should alert you to whether or not...
What better way to write my 400th review, than about a game that includes over 400 cards - Parthenon: Rise of the Aegean (Z-man Games, 2005 - Andrew Parks,...
Palatinus (daVinci and Mayfair Games, 2005 - Alessandro Zucchini) is a small area control game using the theme of the seven hills of Rome. It plays quickly and...
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