Board Game Madness: Board Game Madness 3/27

Fun:

I-CON is this weekend!
The Geek Madness tournament to select the 2012 champion board game has reached the elite 8:

Pimp My Game: Somebody created FIMO major improvements for Agricola – very cute! And a close up.
Stupid human tricks
Now this is taking your games seriously…
Origins, a convention that is very board game friendly, has announced the nominees for their awards. I don’t know what the cutoff is as Automobile is not a new game, but here they are:

Best Board Game: Automobile, Dungeons & Dragons: Conquest of Nerath, Hibernia, High Noon Saloon, Pastiche
Best Family, Party or Children’s Game: Bears!, Faux-Cabulary, Get Bit!, Scavengers, Space Mission
Best Traditional Card Game: Cthulu Gloom, Nuts!, Star Trek Deck Building Game: The Next Generation, The Red Dragon Inn 3, The Struggle for Catan
Best Historical Board Game: Band of Brothers: Screaming Eagles, Lost Battles, No Retreat! The Russion Front, Strike of the Eagle, Test of Fire: Bull Run 1861, World War II: Barbarossa 1941

My two worlds collide! Someone put out a soundtrack to the novelization of The Settlers of Catan that can be downloaded as MP3s

New Games:

Smash Up: From the makers of Thunderstone and The Adventurers, AEG is billing this as a “shufflebuilding” game. Take any 2 of 8 factions (pirates, ninjas, aliens, dinosaurs, etc.) and smash them together to get a deck of badies that you have to fight off and steal more bases than your opponents. Humor is the key here. Release date August 2012.
The City-State of Tempest is a world created by AEG (see Smash Up above) that will be the theme to bind 3 new releases coming out in late 2012 and early 2013: Dominaire, Mercante, and Courtier. They plan on adding more, connecting characters and developing the world. Sounds fascinating!
Uncharted: One of my favorite video games, the Uncharted series (present day Indiana Jones-like treasure hunting adventure) for the PS3 featuring Nathan Drake is now being released as a board game. I don’t know a ton of detail, but apparently it will retail for about $30. Also, it’s apparently going to be a Hollywood film.
Dominion base cards: For those who never sleeved their cards, Rio Grande is releasing just the base cards from their popular game, although with new artwork. No word on date, but it will retail for $17.50.
Recent releases: Pizza Theory, Oz Fluxx, Dragon Valley, Fealty, Ugh

iOS:

News:

Will Wheaton (Wesley Crusher from ST:TNG) has long been a celebrity within the gaming community. Now he’s taking on board gaming. He’s working with Felicia Day (The Guild) to create a new web series called “Geek and Sundry” which starts on 4/2/12. According to Wheaton (via Board Game News quoting his blog): “By the second day of production, our crew was grabbing games out of our games library to play at lunch. All of our interns and production assistants have become complete game fanatics, and whenever I edit a show, all I want to do is go home and play that game until my face falls off.” The trailer is online now.
Boston.com has a good article on the “Board Game Renaissance” as they call it. This one is very in depth and looks at the history of how they came to the market and what different games have done for the industry

Recently Played:

Board game night this past week: Citadels, Lords of Vegas, Cards Against Humanity
Next day was a little word gaming with Plext
Some more Core Worlds with the Mrs. She’s obsessed! (not that I mind…)

Happy Gaming!

Board Game Madness