Board Game Madness 11/1/11 (The Date of 1s)

Fun:

• I’ve found a video cast/TV show about Board Gaming called Shut Up and Sit Down. I LOVE this show. It’s funny, they review games from Power Grid to Descent, so it’s across the entire genre. Two English gamers that have a great sense of humor and good reviews on games. They’ve done 5 ½ episodes so far.
• Pastry gaming: Small World
• Drinking games: Agricola beer
• OK, the pieces to the new game Poseidon’s Kingdom may be too cute to play
• I’ve been known to play games in strange places from time to time. Zombie Dice or Lord of the Fries in a restaurant, D&D in an airport… but how about Sid Meier’s Civilization in a subway station???
• Contest #1: Want to win a free copy of Ticket to Ride Asia? Like DoW on Facebook and you and a friend (who may be me?) will win free copies.
• Contest #2: Want to win a free copy of Dominion: Hinterlands? Like ISlayTheDragon on Facebook and you (not a friend who may be me) will win a free copy. There’s other ways to win too.
• MeepleSource.com is putting out non-standard meeples to be used in your games. I am SERIOUSLY considering making my next Blood Bowl team meeples.

New Games:

• GameChanger: Identity Games has released an iPad add-on that allows you to play one of two kids games by plugging into the iPad and letting you use the board to interact with the digital interface. This is available for the holidays and one of the kids games is the Magic School Bus, a favorite of my kids.

iOS:

• Reiner Knizia’s Lines of Gold out now
• Ghost Stories updated for 4-monk play
• Elder Sign: Omens (Horror dice game) announced and available very soon apparently
• Bang! is now multiplayer
• Cyclades out now
• War of Words is available for the iPad and is apparently combat Scrabble. Not sure how this works, but you can blow words up.
• Tigris & Euphrates pushed back to November

News:

• 7 Wonders won a-(yawn)-nother game in Denmark. Don’t get me wrong, I really like the game and its accessibility to a large group of people, but this is getting a little ridiculous. Maybe I should just report on who wins second.
• Want to make custom pieces for your favorite games? Roland DG Corp is now doing 3D modeling with a more desktop-sized device (so they say… no prices yet)

Happy gaming!