Board Game Madness 2/14

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! What game are you playing with your sweetheart tonight? Slaying the dragons in Runebound? Finding out where Jack the Ripper is in Mr. Jack? Or trading goods in the Mediterranean in... er... every Euro ever made?  

I kid because I can...

Fun:

• In the spirit of Valentine's Day, last week I put up a link to a geek proposal card from Ascension. I didn't realize there was a video too. This is awesome and the guys from Gary Games were involved too.
• Also for Valentine's Day, stories of how board gamer couples met, in only the way BGG can present: A geeklist
• Adding wildlife to any game automatically makes it better
• Someone pimped out Quarriors to get a little flavor from Board Game Geek
• Interesting look at some games that due to political pressures or just plain offensiveness in design and have been censored in some way
• Pimp my game: City models for Settlers of Catan (only on kickstarter, not in production yet)

New Games:

• Recent releases: A Fistful of Penguins, Hawaii, Last Will

iOS:

• Touch Arcade predicts Dominion (the RioGrande version) to be released this week
• Hive released this past week

News:

• I put out pictures of Lego: Star Wars: Battle of Hoth. Looked awesome. That's as close as I'll get to it. Apparently there's licensing issues preventing a US release according to W. Eric Martin of BoardGameNews
• Crossover alert: World of Warcraft and Starcraft 2 will now be board games. Only not what you think. How about Monopoly: World of Warcraft and Risk: Starcraft
• Popsci interviews a Seattle game store owner on the German Board Game Phenomena

Recently Played:

• Got together with a few friends for an impromptu game of Milles Bornes followed by Pandemic (where as usual, it looked good for a while and then shut down in a hurry – sorry world. You're all dead)
• Played game 2 of the Long Island Blood Bowl League's 2nd season and my beloved Death Rockers went down to the NY Knicknevins 2-1. It was painful. I'm now 0-2.
• Taught my son how to play Quarriors! He loved it.

Credits: Board Game Geek, Touch Arcade, Google News

Happy gaming!