Category: Board Games

It’s really fun. The covert gamer’s-game nature of this Hasbro-branded, direct-to-Toys-R-Us product has been slowly percolating up into the consciousness of hobby gamers for a couple months now – you might have seen Phil Reed name-check it when he wrote up his 3D Frag standards. Or you might have heard

GameTable Online has made an arrangement with Wingnut Games to bring the bovine glory of Battle Cattle to online gaming. The D&D parody version, Quest for the Holy Pail, is also included in the license, bringing even more cow combat to those poor souls who can’t tear themselves away from

Living Dead Entertainment, in association with Udo Grebe Gamedesign, has announced plans for The Hellgame, a boardgame wherein each player controls a group of three daemons. Using their triumvirate of evil, each player attempts to gain control of one of Hell’s circles and have his claim recognised by Lucifer himself.

The latest newsletter from Rio Grande Games contains some interesting announcements. Shipping right away are Industrial Waste, the environmentally-conscious business simulation, and The Vatican, a free expansion set for Web of Power. Coming in February are Where’s Bob’s Hat? and Mexica followed by Puerto Rico, a simulation game set in

Invisible City has released its latest free game: Jam Doodle. In the game, one player draws a doodle and then must describe it in enough detail that the other player can reproduce it without seeing it or asking any questions. Variants are included to allow the game to accomodate up

Cheapass has unveiled Diceland.com, the new web site for James Ernest’s intriguing dice game design (and latest attempt at a licensing fiefdom – it’s harder to take that aspect seriously after watching entire bins full of licensed Button Men get thrown away at a major gaming fulfillment house, but still).

Invisible City Productions has just released an article featuring variants and commentary on all of their free games released in 2001. It also has a preview of things to come; not only does it list all of the games planned for release in 2002, but it also suggests that commercial

Well, actually, you should buy it because it’s been the most commonly-played game out of everything I’ve been bringing to game nights over the past three months. It’s called Laguna, and it’s German. Its regular game page on Funagain is here if you want to see pictures, but if you’re

See, ’cause the last headline said Delta, and one of these games has… Delta in the… right. FFG has posted details about two new board games, Delta V and Maginor. The former, designed in house, appears to build an interesting strategy game onto a Memory board, while the latter is

Rio Grande Games has just posted a new newsletter. Though it doesn’t contain any particularly ground-breaking announcements, there is some information on a new limited-edition Gipf kit which should be of interest to fans of the series of interlocking abstract strategy games. Games Journal December Issue Online The December issue

Glastyn Games has announced that FrachtExpress, the rethemed, family-oriented German version of HellRail, is now available in American stores. Most people will probably want to stick with the English-language, damned-soul-filled edition from Mayfair Games, but it’s always nice to know that you have freedom of choice….

FFG finally got the Lord of the Rings board game expansion Friends and Foes back from the printer, and is kicking it back out the door as fast as they can. It looks like the rebranded FFG version of last year’s award-winning (heh) board game will be going great guns

Once again, Rio Grande Games has provided a newsletter on their web page. Most of the games described in it have already been mentioned in past newsletters, though Industrial Waste and Top Secret Spies didn’t ring any bells for me (nor were they described in any way — though they’ll

I’ve looked over the latest releases from , and I like what I see so far. The three new Button Men: Samurai add three guys and three gals to the fray, with stylish artwork by Ric Frane. The pack to watch for is Sadakuro/Okaru: the ninja Sadkuro has focus dice