Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Board Game Madness 10/18


Fun:
  • Tom Vasel has begun releasing his annual Top 100 games of all time. They’re fun to watch. If your tastes lean a little towards thematic games, you’ll love this list. Oh, and his daughter has her own list of kids friendly games too/
  • Purple Pawn put together a few gamer videos on Settlers of Catan and D&D
New Games:
  • Village: This one seems interesting in that you are taking your family through a number of challenges to gain notoriety and fame as time goes on. Prominent members die and other ones take their place. Possible release later this year.
iOS:
  • I have not upgraded to iOS 5 yet, there’s some people I know who have had difficulties. But apparently there’s Game Center improvements including recommendations to other players with the same games from friends.
News:
  • Games Magazine (which I am a HUGE fan of) released their top games to purchase in 2012 (basically a top games in separate categories of 2011). I’m not such a huge fan of the list, but in defense of the publisher, it really is one reviewer’s viewpoint I believe. And I have no problems with his tastes differing from mine. Tikal II was #1 by the way. Oh, and one other thing on this, it was really interesting to note that board game sims dominated the list of electronic games. You can’t see that by the above link, but you can if you view it in the Games Magazine December edition this list is from.
  • Shocker in the Scrabble world as an Australian tournament saw a cheating scandal with hiding letters and strip searches!
Happy Gaming!

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