Welcome back everyone and sorry about the non-sense of the last few days. I hope everyone had a good Holiday and got lots of games. I’m not big on the whole year end list thing, but I get asked a lot what games I really like. Instead of repeating myself over and over in various emails [...]
Archive for December, 2011
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Happy Holidays
December 24th, 2011 
Dan Spezzano I wanted to take this time to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season. It’s been a good year for the site and I’ll reflect on that next week. I’ve been spending some quality gaming time with some very good titles as of late. It really has been a fantastic year to be in [...]
News Bag
December 21st, 2011 Dan Spezzano Have a few news items and I’m going to put them all into one post. I’m trying to get Facebook comments plug in on the site to make life easier but lets just say I can’t get the moderation to work and well unmoderated comments are scary. On to the news which includes Titan
Holidays…
December 20th, 2011 Dan Spezzano Received a few emails asking if something was up with the site and the answer is no. I’ve been very busy with work and the holidays. I’m also working on some site tweaks which is taking time away from writing. However that is about to change as I have a stack of new games to [...]
A Return to the Future with Fantasy Flight’s New Fortress America!
December 16th, 2011 admin It’s not every day that a tweet about board games makes you do a triple take, but when I saw this from FF today I was simply rocked and shocked: “It is the near future, and the U.S. is threatened on all sides by a global coalition. Can Fortress America survive?
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Fame and Fortune indeed.
December 13th, 2011 Dan Spezzano Fantasy Flight games version of Civilization is one that gets played a lot by some of the OBG staff. Myself and Chris have played many games. I think it is safe to say both of us were eager to get our hands on the new Fame and Fortune expansion for the game. The question is [...]
GenCon stays in Indy to 2020
December 7th, 2011 Dan Spezzano Call it selfishness but I love GenCon being in Indianapolis. I can drive there in under 4 hours, the city is clean and everything is in easy walk from the convention center. Also the people running GenCon, especially the volunteers are so easy to work with. Today they announced a deal to remain at that location until [...]
D-Day Dice Kickstarter winds down.
December 7th, 2011 Dan Spezzano With under 37 hours left this is your last chance to get in on the most successful kick starter campaign for a board game I have ever seen. I’m in at the $75 level but for $35 you can get in and get a lot of free goodies. If your new to kick starter it’s basically a [...]
Cosmic Alliance expansion for Cosmic Encounters
December 7th, 2011 Dan Spezzano There is no stopping the expansion train that is FFG. This new expansion for Cosmic Encounter adds 20 new races which brings the total up to….well I don’t know let’s call is a “bunch”. It also adds a team game. I really enjoy Cosmic Encounters, not enough to own it but I enjoy it. This [...]
Urban Sprawl: A review
December 7th, 2011 admin GMT further dips their toe in the Eurogame pool with this middle weight design, a follow-up to designer Chad Jensen’s superb (and 2011 Golden Geek game of the year) Dominant Species. While an abstract in every sense, players are ostensibly city planners, vying for control of growth and political office. In its more abstract sense [...]
Forbidden Alchemy preview at FFG
December 6th, 2011 Dan Spezzano FFG is busy churning out the news mill with a preview of their upcoming expansion for Mansions of Madness. The original game was one I was very excited for at the time but haven’t played much since. In fact my own copy has never been played. Chris has gotten the print and play expansions perhaps [...]
Khazad-Dum news
December 6th, 2011 Dan Spezzano FFG recently posted a new preview for the first big box expansion for the Lord of the Rings Card game. I haven’t said much about this game since we did our original review. The adventure packs have made the game a lot more robust and it really is an enjoyable single or two player game [...]
Cryptozoic announced WOW Deck Builder
December 6th, 2011 Dan Spezzano Cryptozoic has decided to get in on the deck building action with the announcement of Clash of Champions a World of Warcraft themed deck builder. The PR after the jump.