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Giant Carcassonne breaks out at Gen Con!

August 17, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a lot going on at Gen Con and sometimes it happens away from the booths and panels. The official Gen Con Facebook shared this picture of such an outbreak of geeky goodness. It’s Giant Carcassonne! Look at the size of those meeples. You’d not have to worry about the cat attacking the board and […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, Carcassonne, gen con

The Risk board game table

July 18, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Yup. This entire table is set out so you can play Risk on it. It’s a huge gaming board for one of the most aggressive board games played by kids around the world. I wonder where they got models of suitable scale? (Via Reddit.)

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: board games, household, risk

5 stunning tile games that inspired MAGE Company

March 6, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Alex and Mike of MAGE Company got in touch about their Kickstarter for Hoyuk and introduced me to the great looking, tile-laying and area controlling game. It’s funded on Kickstarter with more than $16,000 in the bank, asking for $15,000 and with more than three weeks left to run. [Back this Campaign] I wanted to […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, mage company

Golem Arcana attempts a whole new board game genre

October 5, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[Back this Campaign] There’s an impressive pedigree of talent on this project. We’ve got Jordan Weisman at the helm. He’s already help create BattleTech, Shadowrun, Earthdawn as well as the click base concept you see for MageKnight and Heroclix. Harebrained Schemes have had some serious Kickstarter success in the past. Is Golem Arcana a step […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: android, battletech, board games, harebrained schemes, ios, kickstarters, Shadowrun, tablets

A look inside: Batman – Arkham City Escape board game

September 29, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Is it too early to be thinking of Christmas gifts? Perhaps we should concentrate on the matter at hand – escaping Arkham City prison. The board game Batman: Arkham City Escape is a two player game, with the playing board a large area of a walled-off section of the Arkham City prison. One player acts as […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: batman, board games, Cryptozoic

404: Law Not Found – 3DTotal take robot madness to Kickstarter

September 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A Kickstarter from the UK with free shipping to the US and the EU. Publisher 3DTotal has raised thousands on their first day on Kickstarter with 404: Law Not Found and are halfway to making their goal.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, kickstarters, robots, sci-fi

The Oleg Story heading to Kickstarter

July 25, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Edward Snowden story as a board game? The Gary McKinnon as a board game? Not quite. Throw in a touch of the A-Team or Tango and Cash and we’re getting closer. Details of The Oleg Story board game from Latest Pursuit appeared on BoardGame Geek at the start of the month with the promise […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: board games, kickstarters

Cthulhu Wars Kicktarter races past $1,000,000 with hours to go

July 7, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816687860/cthulhu-wars [Back this Campaign] The creator of Call of Cthulhu has seen his Kickstarter race through the one million dollar mark. With less than a day on the clock the pledge fund is at $1,224,958 and rising. Backers are supporting efforts to create a combination of a strategy board game with the Cthulhu mythos from […]

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, Call of Cthulhu, cthulhu, kickstarters, models, Sandy Petersen

A look inside The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey board game

June 28, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This July we’ll see a new The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey board game from Cryptozoic ship to hobby stores. In fact, this may be Amazon’s page for it. Designed by Reiner Knizia the The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey game makes use of two boards, a handful of dice, 14 dwarf cards, 18 resource titles, 2 […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, Cryptozoic, previews, the hobbit

Kobolds Ate My Baby … the musical

March 11, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Did you think someone would take Kobolds At My Baby and turn it into a musical? Into a loud, cheese rock, style musical? Well, for better or for worse, it has happened. The fact that there’s a Kickstarter, by 9th Level Games, for Kobolds Ate My Baby in Colour might have something to do with […]

Filed Under: Music, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, board games, John Kovalic, kickstarters, monsters

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