I’m a little late in posting about the latest free game of the month from Invisible City, but it’s just as well — I’d hate for it to get lost in the sea of GenCon posts. Magic Spell casts players
Author: Demian Katz
Rio Grande Update
The ever-productive Rio Grande Games has released yet another newsletter featuring a variety of products. Popular classics Tikal and Torres are getting re-released, and newer offerings include That’s Life!, a re-titled version of a German game of the year nominee;
Invisible City Offers Two for the Price of None
This month, Invisible City, home of free monthly games, offers not one, but two gifts to the world at large. First up is BAG, which is sort of like Scrabble, but you’re lining up pictures that represent related concepts rather
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
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
From the “slight change of pace” department…
Another free game of the month has arrived from Invisible City. Tumblewords is sort of like a hybrid of Connect Four and those word search puzzles often found in special large-print editions for the elderly. If you’ve got some spare
Freebie Update
The Internet is a great source of freebies for gamers, and two reliable producers of cost-free goodness have both struck again at nearly the same time. First, Project Aon went and released another free Lone Wolf adventure, The Legacy of
Rio Grande Sells Smallest Continent
It is once again Rio Grande Games newsletter time. Most of the featured games this issue were already shown last time around, but there is one new entry — Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling’s Australia, a board game giving players
Invisible City Plays Hide and Seek
Invisible City has just announced their free game of the month for February. In Navigator, two to four players explore a map, trying to track down each other’s hideouts. On a related note, the Invisible City site has a new
New Arborell Gamebook Arrives
Although the elusive Earth and Stone is still under development, a new interactive mini-gamebook has been added to the online Chronicles of Arborell series. In Shards of Moonlight, a prequel to the main series, the reader takes on the role
Rio Grande Begins the New Year
Rio Grande Games has just posted their first newsletter of 2005. Rather surprisingly, yet another Carcassonne expansion is on the way, this time with a fantasy theme. Carcassonne: The Princess and the Dragon is due out in March. I don’t
Invisible City Finds Dinosaurs, Explodes
It’s been a few months since I’ve posted an Invisible City update, but that hasn’t deterred them from producing several new free games in the meantime. If you need something new to do with your Icehouse set, be sure to
Rio Grande Holiday Update
Rio Grande Games has posted another newsletter containing a couple of interesting pieces of news. First of all, it has the release status of a variety of titles, so if you’re thinking of doing some holiday shopping, you’ll know what’s
Sports Gamebooks Reach the UK
It’s not often that a new gamebook series hits the market these days, but Fighting Fantasy publisher Wizard Books has just launched a new product likely to bring page-flipping to a different demographic. The Football Fantasy Gamebooks allow players to
Eldritch Horror: The New Alternative to Red Meat
If you need some Halloween excitement and you don’t have time for one of our RPG suggestions, all is not lost. Thanks to the wonders of Invisible City‘s latest free Game of the Month, you can participate in a Cthulbeque.