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Asmodee dazzles with My Hero Academia game and other deals

March 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Asmodee has had a busy day and has announced several new deals in North America.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, azul, board game, board games, card games, endless winter, everdell, fantasia games, iwari, jasco games, my hero academia, Plan B Games, tabletop tycoon, thundergryph games

Avalon Hill page points to new HeroQuest Game

September 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

A new sub-domain on Avalon Hill.com has a 10 day countdown for Hero Quest. The Quest is Calling.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, board game, board games, Chaosium, hasbro, HeroQuest, Restoration Games

An Unexpected Party: Weta to release a new The Hobbit board game

April 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game is designed for ages 10 and up, lasts around 50 minutes and is all about being a messy dwarf and annoying Bilbo!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: an unexpected party, board game, the hobbit, Weta Workshop

Funko Games debuts with Harry Potter, Batman and other geek culture strategy games

July 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Each game comes with a new range of 3-inch models and are expected to be in stores by October. They’ll officially launch at SDCC.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: batman, board game, dc comics, Forrest-Pruzan Creative, funko, funkoverse, harry potter, models, rick and morty, sdcc

Board games, models and dice caught up in US-China trade war

May 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

This is not a done deal. There will be hearings on the proposal on June 17th and if they pass then 25% tariffs could be in force by June 24th.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: board game, dice, legal, models

Steamforged Games announces Devil May Cry license and board game

April 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Steamforged Games proposed Devil May Cry board game is described as a fast-paced and easy to learn system that rewards style. Players are demon hunters; Dante, Nero, Trish or even V.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game, capcom, devil may cry, Steamforged Games

A legend returns! Trogdor the Burninator gets a board game

July 18, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you’re blinking your eyes in confusion, then count your stars that you’re a young geek. The rest of us will most likely remember one of the original geeky memes Trogdor! Shut up and take your money? [Back this Campaign] This Kickstarter is from Homestar Runner and with 28 days still on the clock, at […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game, dragons, kickstarters, trogdor

Chaosmos board game is a love letter to sci-fi master William Sleator

January 31, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

This post by Joey Vigour, the lead designer at Mirror Box Games, is about YA sci-fi author William Sleator and his book Interstellar Pig. Strange as it may sound, Interstellar Pig is the inspiration for the Chaosmos board game that’s close to raising $100,000 on Kickstarter. William Sleator is gone now, but every used bookstore […]

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game, Chaosmos, Interstellar Pig, Joey Vigour, Mirror Box Games, sci-fi, William Sleator

Tea versus evil: A review of the Discworld board game The Witches

November 27, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

  The Witches is the second of Martin Wallace’s Discworld board games. It follows Ankh Morpork. In Ankh Morpork I found myself dropping friends in heaps of trouble for fun and to win the game. In The Witches I found that you were often better off helping each other out – particularly when it came […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game, Discworld, Martin Wallace, reviews, Terry Pratchett, the witches

Sneakily straight forward: A review of the Discworld Ankh-Morpork board game

November 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

  The rules to Tree Frog Games’ Discworld Ankh-Morpork board game say; Ankh-Morpork is a relatively simple game. When it is your turn you play a card, do what it says on it, and then fill your hand back up to five cards. The next player then does the same, and so on until someone […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game, Discworld, Martin Wallace, reviews, Terry Pratchett, tree frog games

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