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Archive for September, 2004
The Glorious Sound of Cheapass
Thursday, September 30th, 2004More Rio Grande News
Thursday, September 30th, 2004While it seems like it hasn’t been long since the last one, Rio Grande Games has produced yet another newsletter. Most of the game descriptions have been seen in past announcements, but they have revealed more details on their forthcoming Carcassonne releases. The new expansion will be called The Count while the new stand-alone game will be called The City. If you’re a fan of the tile-laying game and can’t wait to find out more, there are more details available at BoardGameGeek here and here.
Rage addiction is apparently still a serious problem
Wednesday, September 29th, 2004Fans of the old Rage CCG have produced an entire expansion, complete with art, called Gauntlet. (“Red– Werewolf– is about to die!!”) White Wolf appears pretty proud of this – they’ve even designated the new set tournament-legal. At first I thought this was another CCG Workshop deal, like for
MSN’s Catan page looks like something all of a sudden
Monday, September 27th, 2004Those who are interested in the challenges of transitioning the most popular board game of the last ten years to the screen (not that screen – stop being difficult) might want to have a look at the updates on the official Catan Online site. You can read a developer diary post, see a screenshot at one degree of separation, or even “Learn about the Klaus Teuber.” More fun than a barrel of insert-resource-card-name-here.
All the joke titles I thought of for this post were too depressing
Tuesday, September 21st, 2004Election USA‘s marketing text begins with the following: “Why not run for President in this first boardgame from Mongoose Publishing? Remember, though, you have to be a Republican!” Yes, it’s a bit of political satire from the other side of the pond (where maybe it’s a little safer, commercially speaking). I’m always surprised that there aren’t more satirical games, given that game systems can caricature economic realities the same way cartoons can caricature appearances. People seem to have figured this out in the video gaming arena, but there still isn’t a lot happening of note, even there. Guess we’re still too busy drawing babes with swords.
Ex-40k guy does Starship Troopers; Mobile Infantry goes “waaaugh!”
Thursday, September 16th, 2004Well, now we know what former Warhammer 40,000 lead designer Andy “Return to the 36” Chambers will do next. He’s co-designing the Starship Troopers minis game for Mongoose. It’s still slated to hit early next year. Bugs vs. fascists, yummy.