Cyclades extension, waiting for it ?
After a short period of peace in Cyclades’ islands, time has come again for alliances, negotiations and hostilities. Greece is […]
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The G*M*S Magazine Podcast Episode 11
Welcome back to the G*M*S Magazine Podcast. This episode is all about boardgames and boardgamers with two excellent interviews. First
Monsters Menace America
I don’t care who you are, unless you’ve been under a rock or living in sub-saharan Africa for the last 50 years, chances are that you know who Godzilla is. And if you know what he is, you know what he does: break shit and kill people on an epic scale. While the 1954 release of Gojira in Japan spawned countless other “big monster terrorizing a city” flicks, the most recent notable one being Cloverfield, it did not spawn all that many board games of the genre.
Keep up the Fire! by Victory Point Games
By Mark Rivera from Boardgames in Blighty Designer – John Welch Art – Tim Allen note – Thanks to Victory
Guards! Guards! Play-test review
To start with the game is designed by a small company called Back Spindle Games. By itself, that is a good sign. A brand like the Discworld doesn’t come easily, and for a small company to be able to get that sort of license, they must have made a good impression.
Faux-Cabulary review
Fwaposaurus. Hypobushy. Bangoism… What would appear to be a keyboard gone mad or a writer gone drunk, it’s nothing else than the new nouns for new things you never thought needed a name. And what fun is to make them!
Guards! Guards!
My good friend Michael Fox from the Little Metal Dog Show was lucky enough to meet David Brashaw and Leonard Boyd from Backspindle Games at UK Games Expo for a video demo of their long term labour of love, Guards! Guards! which is based on the Terry Pratchett Discworld novel. Michael picked up their prototype and did his review and now its my turn.
The Resistance… is NOT futile!
The more I play games, the more I realize how much small game companies are overlooked. The mainstream gaming press tends to gravitate toward the behemoths of the industry; the ones with infinite reviewers to send games to, virtually unlimited marketing resources, the ones who have $50,000 booths at game fairs. That’s fine and dandy, but there’s more than that around. Some of the best games are the overlooked gems that you’ve never heard of, or simply didn’t know enough about to pick up a copy.
Medieval Mastery
Well, Medieval Mastery is a for 2-6 players aged 10+ and involves players in the roles of feudal Kings warring over their lands. You will need to send your knights forth to do battle across various types of terrain , whilst managing resources that are available to you.
Airlines Europe
I think that it would be fair to say that Alan Moon is probably best known for his very successful game Ticket to Ride which certainly was a key game in broadening my personal gaming horizons beyond war gaming. In fact, as I tend to cycle games in and out of my collection to maintain a reasonable size and keep to limited storage space, Ticket To Ride has been a keeper since I picked up my own copy (in a charity shop no less).