Board Game Madness: Board Game Madness 10/17

Fun:

The biggest board gaming convention in the world, Spiel 2012, is going on in Essen right now. You can get a live stream of Board Game Geek’s booth if you are into that right on the front page of their site.
I haven’t mentioned the show Tabletop in a while, but Wil Wheaton just took on Pandemic.

New Games:

Keyflower: Bid for tiles to add to your home tile and expand your kingdom over 4 seasons. At the end of each season, boats arrive with more workers allowing you to get more tiles which give resources or victory points. Release October 2012.
Snowdonia: Excavate the mountain and build your train line with your work gang in the snowy peaks of Snowdonia (isn’t that redundant?). Use your works and contracts to build more of the line than anyone else. Release October 2012.
Nothing Personal: Tom Vasel of The Dice Tower fame is releasing his second game. This is mob-themed as you try to get the most respect to be given the position as the new Capo. Very much a “take that” game it seems. Release later this year/early 2013.
Recent Releases: Banditos: Hippies and an Armored Truck, Casa Grande, Indigo, Saint Malo, Urbania, Giftzwerge, Shadows over Camelot: The Card Game

iOS:

Dominant Species released
Can’t Stop released
Lexatron, Scrabble meets Tron, released
Monopoly Millionaire released
Qin (Reiner Knizia) releasing on iOS at same time as board game in the next week
Elder Sign updated and now has a new campaign “Trail of Ithaqua”
Phantom Leader ready to submit
For the Win going to beta soon

News:

This weekend is Extra Life, a charity which supports children’s hospitals. 24 hours of gaming, are you up to it?
The board gaming blog I Slay the Dragon is building an FLGS database. Register your local store.
The guys at Days of Wonder gave an interview at VentureBeat and explained their rather morbid exit strategy in case the gaming thing doesn’t work out.
The Boston Globe interviews the designer of a board game about the Salem Witch Trials, now on Kickstarter
Roxio and CERN (the guys with the supercollider) are creating a bunch of games and content aimed at teaching kids about particle and quantum physics. This actually scares me a little bit…

Recently Played:

My son has been fantastic lately in and out of school, so I decided to put together a bunch of miniatures for him to finally have his Lizardmen Blood Bowl team. Then we played. We still have to work on his strategy. I also brought one of the new players in our league up to speed with a scrimmage where he soundly beat me.
My wife said, “Can I go out tonight?” I said, “On one condition, when you come back, we play a game of Dominion.” Actually we played three. And for you haters out there, she knows could have gone without “my permission”. But I might as well get something out of it, right?
My wife took my older son to a First Lego League training session so my 4 and a half year old son asked if we could play some games. Of course! We played Zombie Dice, I taught him out to play Othello and we played one of his favorites: Incan Gold. On that last one, we even have this funny thing we do when the treasures are shown before they get mixed in the deck, we get a nice “ooooooh aaaaaaah” in unison.

Happy Gaming!

Board Game Madness