Fun:
- What a Merchants and Marauders player does when he’s bored
- Pimp My Game: Pandemic meets Legos!
- GenCon cosplay
New Games:
- Recently released: Dominion: Dark Ages, Essence: Archetypes & Emotions, Legacy: Gears of Time, Mythic Battles, Carole
iOS:
- The big news this week was the release of both Dominion (kind of) and Thunderstone. Both are free but charge you for expanding the basic set
- Dominion was released on HTML5 platform by Goko, but the launch was first on the Internet and at the time of this sending is still not through the iTunes store. Also the launch did NOT go well. Inaccessible sites tormented the fledgling company. The latest news as of yesterday though is that Goko has taken their game back into beta explaining that “it wasn’t able to scale fast enough to support the load.”
- Thunderstone Gateway’s release also didn’t go well. The market is inaccessible until a released update hopefully this week so you have only the subset of the original cards. In addition, there was a lot of backlash from the board game community because it’s tied into the Facebook Thunderstone app. If you have the cards on Facebook, you have them on the iPad. But Facebook is a very controversial app for some and they avoid it at all costs. With Playdek having such success with Ascension, players wanted a similarly self-contained app for Thunderstone and that didn’t happen. The gameplay is really good, but I’m getting bored with the cards I’ve got. Also, there’s no pass and play which is upsetting. And there’s no option for playing the “Epic” mode that is available on Board Game Geek (although that’s not official, it would have been nice to see it).
- LeHavre is 99c!
- All Playdek games reduced in price through 8/23
- Stone Age in development
- Catan update has been submitted to the iTunes store and it contains the Cities & Knights expansion
- Ascension: Immortal Heroes expansion later this year
News:
- Pandemic is going to be released to Toys ‘R Us stores for a wider distribution starting in September
Recently Played:
- Friday night gaming with my wife was nice. We played some Core Worlds, Race for the Galaxy and the card game Casino
- The next day we got together with friends and played Puerto Rico, Kingdom Builder and another game of Race for the Galaxy
Happy Gaming!
Credits: Board Game Geek, Google News
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