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Thursday, June 30, 2005
Origins photos and board game news
Yup, there’s a big ol’ pile of Arkham Horror. Also, Memoir ‘44, Mystery of the Abbey and Pirate’s Cove are all getting expansions and Ticket to Ride will jump to PCs. And some other stuff in a Gamewire post hella jam-packed with all kinds of crap. Check it.
Dear Internet, you’re fired
Okay, it’s the first full day of Origins, the Origins Award winners are supposedly sitting around on posters everywhere, and the best you can manage is one press release on this one for Eberron? Jeez. Tear yourselves away from staring at that crazy carpet pattern for a minute and put something online already.
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Skotos ships Lovecraft Country
Lovecraft Country is online, in beta form. This is one of the first upcoming projects they announced back in… what was it, 1999?
WizKids offers treasure to avid captains
For all you scurvy Pirates of the Spanish Main out there (or Crimson Coast, or whereever), WizKids has some loot for you. The company has announced its Pirates Plunder Promotion, in which sea dogs of the CSG variety can mail in just a few game wrappers (plus a receipt, so be sure to save it) to capture a share of the treasure. In this case, the treasure in question can be a rare Limited Edition Ghost Ship or two, or even the character busts previously only available in Approved Play events. So if you end up on dry land near a mailbox, consider the benefits of owning a haunted galleon or two.
Monday, June 27, 2005
Niagara wins this year’s Spiel des Jahres
GR has a translation, as amusing and confusing as you’ve come to expect from Babelfish and its cousins, of the German press release.
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Free Fun from Invisible City
Project Aon isn’t the only organization giving stuff away this month. Right on schedule, they’ve produced another free game of the month. This time around, it’s ‘Dillos in Austin, delightfully described as “a simulation for 2 to 4 ground-dwelling armored rodents.” If you only visit the city when I report on their free games here, you might also want to check out Shift, last month’s free game, which I think I neglected to mention at the time. Oopsie.
Project Aon Pleases Lone Wolf Fans, Depresses eBayers
There are a few rare and valuable books that could be considered the holy grails of gamebook collecting, and most of them are part of Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf series. One such book is The Magnamund Companion, a full-color, large-format reference book featuring everything from a short solo adventure to instructions on building miniatures. Often found selling for ludicrous sums on eBay, it can now be downloaded free and legal from Project Aon, the official online home of Joe Dever’s gamebooks. Just click on “The Books,” and you can find the PDF file in the “Other Materials” section. Enjoy!
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Doom boardgame expansion packs loads of minis, Descent compatibility
In continuing FFG news, Doom expansion full details. I get the feeling that most gamers who frequent the ‘Cave are waiting on Descent, the straight dungeon-delve remix of the Doom mechanic, if they are interested in this at all. So it’s at least of note that in this upcoming expansion, “[b]its are included to let you integrate my favorite improvements from Descent back into Doom.” Also, I don’t think I’ve yet made the joke that they should really work out how to make a board game out of Descent, the head-twisting PC-gaming contemporary to the original Doom. That guy who goes to cons with the nice tall 3D-dogfighting miniature rigs might be able to hack it.
Arkham Horror loose, roaming, probably drooling
Man, I was all set to make a post about how the only news seems to be that things are constantly getting their ship dates pushed back. But then I go to FFG and there’s the word that the long-awaited new edition of Arkham Horror has shipped to distributors and should be in stores shortly after Origins… which probably means you’ll be able to buy it at the show. And I just got through laughing at you all about RoboRally… serves me right, I guess.
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