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Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room: Prime Time by Golden Egg Games

Prime Time is a Recources Management game for 2 to 4 players in which each player takes the role of a Television magnate who must build their channel and for that must buy actors, producers, writers, show ideas… The game was Kickstarted a while ago and, as it is Elad Goldsteen´s tradition, delivered pretty much…
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Spiel 2013 interviews. Special Episode with Arctic Union

Arctic Union is an organisation that caught my eye a long time ago for being a collective of designers and publishers who decided to join forces and unite under one banner to showcase and sell their games. And they’re a nice bunch of guys to boot, so we decided to do a special episode dedicated…
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Reflections on Spiel 2013

By Paco Garcia Jaen One more year, we have taken the camera equipment and gone to Germany to what is *the* gaming event of the year for tens of thousands of people and thousands of companies. Once again, we battled the gigantic crowds of so many thousands, that finding out how many is as difficult…
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Podcast episode – The Board Game Interview Room: Stephen Buonocore from Stronghold Games

It is a well known fact the board game world is full of pretty amazing people. Resilient, creative, clever, friendly… Quite frankly it’s a joy to behold.

Of course sometimes you find the odd weirdo who is not pleasant and who you’ll try to avoid for the rest of your life.

Stephen Buonocore couldn’t be further from that sort of people. He is one of the most approachable, genuine, clever and shrewd people the gaming world has ever seen.

Boardgame video unboxing: Cosmic Empires

By Paco Garcia Jaen To say that going to going to Spiel gives you the chance of meeting game designers and see games that otherwise would be close to impossible to see is like saying that the Moon orbits the Earth. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise if you haven’t heard of Cosmic Empires…
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