The nominees for the Spiel des Jahres series of awards have been announced today. These are Germany’s ‘Game of the Year’ awards and is probably the most important of all of the board game awards.The nominees for Spiel Des Jahres are:Augustus – Paolo Mo…
Talat $29.99 SRP Talat is a 3 player strategy game sure to challenge players and reward great play. Talat involves moving towers of three different heights and in three different shapes on three game boards to eliminate opponent’s pieces and gain safety at the other side of the boards. Players play two other opponents [...]
If you read the first part of Getting My Girlfriend Gaming, you will already know that I have a weakness for impulse buys. If you haven’t read that, then you should know that I have a weakness for impulse buys.As soon as something catches my attention …
I’d been asked by Geeksplode! to write up a guest post for them on my thoughts on tabletop gaming as a comparison to video games.This was something that I’d been thinking about a lot recently and with my recent re-entry into the world of video games, i…
Kings of Air and Steam $59.95 SRP Early in the 20th Century, modern factories crank out goods like clockwork. Race your mighty but unstable airship to pick up cargo and haul it through the clouds to depots safely outside city limits. Then hustle the most valuable shipments by train into the cities that want [...]
Okay! It’s time to crank this up a notch. Clearly attempting to use games that were already in my collection just wasn’t cutting it with the girlfriend. The games were either too long winded and boring in theme (Euro’s) or just too complex for a board …
This weekend have been quite busy, Friday was spend playing Blood Bowl the Card Game down at the club. It was the first times we tried out the expansion and it seemed quite fun. I got to try out the Khemri team and with their Regeneration ability they were fun to play. Then on Saturday [...]
I love video games and a couple of weeks ago we saw the news that Plaid Hat Games where producing a board game based on the lore and setting of Bioshock Infinite. It’s a shame that there's not more games based off of video game properties. Boa…
I have been incredibly preoccupied this week having had to move house with only a days notice, and have not had the time to play any board games, let alone manage to write up a full feature post. However, I couldn’t let a whole week go past withou…
Evening all,Another instalment of this weeks gaming down at Enfield Gamers which was all very much Mantic-tastic.First up was another helping of Dreadball. With luck a number of us should be at the Mantic Day for Dreadball in Nottingham this Saturday, …
Yesterday I got recruited to play a game of Axis & Allies down at the club with some friends. When I was younger I played it a lot with the old advanced rule packs but I haven’t played it in probably 10 years or more so I had no experience of the new versions. We [...]
We are Fighters!We are Survivors!We are The Resistance![Day 1]There’s not a lot of us left now. Most of us have been killed or driven underground by the Imperials. There is dissension among our peoples and the recent run of bad luck for our Missio…
A bit more proxy Dreadball live last night at the Enfield Gamers saw myself and Chris match up again for a fairly leisurely game exploring a little bit more of Season 2. I took Robots whilst Chris continues with Z’Zor ably assisted for a bit by Rob who…
I got a new game today , the Dawn of the ZEDS by victory point games. Hmmm, Interesting setup with the game coming with a slip type cover and the box itself was red cardboard with fold in front. According to the description on the box it includes • One 32-page Rules booklet (Extended Example [...]
In this Box Breaking Matt takes a look at Zpocalypse. Zpoc is a semi-cooperative board game that take place in a post apocalyptic world. The game lends both a tactical miniatures feel and RPG flavors to create a unique game experience. You can learn everything there is to know about [...]
Last time I talked about how my addiction to hobbies has possibly built a wall between board games and my girlfriend that I may not be able to knock down. Today I’m going to discuss the other mistake I made in introducing her to this fantastic past tim…
I had a three player game last night and it was a blast. Before the game I heard “oh its not a co-op is it!” but once we started and the encounters started happening it was all good. We had the rules sorted but just got plain cocky and got beat. We needed to build [...]
Ever since getting into Board Games I’ve been trying (unsuccessfully) to get my girlfriend into playing the odd board game with me too. This hasn’t been going well so far up to the point that now she just refuses to play whatever I propose. I believe I…
I just had my first game of Smersh. I will be having many more as it was great fun and for me a different type of board game. It was fun reading the encounter out and also listening when read to you and trying to imagine the situation. Cool. Rules seem pretty simple and the [...]
With a smattering of Season 2 goodies in sticky mitts a few of us got our proxy on to give the new teams a run out and hone so moves for the upcoming Mantic day.Personally I’d plumped for the Robots and Z’Zors, based solely on looks as is often my case…
So I mentioned the other day about one of my current favourite games, ‘Race for the Galaxy’. Ever since picking this up I’ve been itching for more and more games. I take it everywhere with me in the hopes that someone will want to play. Luckily for me …
Wow, I know I have been using this word a lot lately but this is for real. 8th Summit published the game “Agents of Smersh” . Very good value from Coolstuff.com via NZ Post youShop and arrived within 2 weeks. I don’t think this is available in NZ as it is from a KS project and I [...]
It’s the best time of the year, I don't mean Christmas with it’s over indulgence and prezzies. I don't mean the summer when it’s one of the five days in the UK calendar where it’s brave enough to sit outside without a waders. I mean i…
This Saturday I had been informed we were playing ‘The Resistance’ since one of our members had picked it up a few days earlier. I was looking forward to this as I had heard from others about how fun this can be with a decent group. The anticipation wa…
The last few News Colliders have all been about video games but that’s not why we’re here. No we prefer our games cut from card and prefer to sit opposite our opponent and look them straight in the eye so this news collection has some news on a…