Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending August 7, 2020. Gaming News Cryptozoic will be releasing Dark Nights: Metal, a new box set for the DC Deck-Building Game. Richard Garfield’s The Great Dalmuti, which has been a favorite in my family for 20+ years, is getting […]
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Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending July 31, 2020. Gaming News I very much wish I was writing this edition of Re-Roll from Indianapolis, and maybe running into a few of you at Gaming with GeekDad on Saturday, but alas, it’s 2020. That doesn’t […]
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Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending July 24, 2020. Gaming News Pictures by Daniela and Christian Stöhr, published PD-Verlag, is the winner of the 2020 Spiel des Jahres, widely considered the most prestigious award in the board game industry. Thomas Sing’s The Crew, published […]
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The Unicorn Quest books. Pictures from kamillabenko.com My daughter is a voracious reader, but sometimes a book seems to resonate a bit more than others. She reads it even more intently than normal. She talks about it a lot. Elements of the story show up in her own play. The latest such story to hit […]
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This Week’s Word Is “Brexit.” Chris Beckett is an author I’ve been meaning to read for several years now, ever since Dark Eden won the Clarke Award. Finally, I caught up with is work, with his latest novel, Two Tribes. I was drawn to Two Tribes because of its themes of Brexit and climate change. Before COVID-19, if there […]
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‘Virtually Yours’ Jeremy Holt (Author) Elizabeth Beals (Artist) Adam Wollet (Letterer) This virtual world is taking us on its stride ever rapidly. And things are happening faster than ever. For instance, a couple of years ago, no one would have read a romantic comedy in graphic novel form, no one. And now here we are, […]
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Need some comics for your kids (or you) to read? Today’s stack is all about comics for kids—fun stories about drawing, exploring, and solving mysteries … all things that are a bit harder to do ourselves during lockdown, but reading these stories might give kids at least a little bit of normalcy in the midst […]
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Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending July 17, 2020. Gaming News Lone Shark Games is offering a Recovery Booster Pack, which includes 26 copies of a variety of their games, to physical retail outlets for a flat $100 to cover shipping. The package is […]
Continue Readingimage: NOA In addition to being Nintendo’s corporate mascot and the star of his own beloved platformer franchise, Mario is unique because of his sheer number of successful spinoff series. Whether kart-racing, battling it out with other first- and third-party characters in Smash, or taking on any number of arcade-style sports, Nintendo’s mustachioed plumber aims […]
Continue ReadingHere is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending July 10, 2020. Gaming News The New York Times reported that the North American Scrabble Players Association has removed racial slurs from the list of approved words in the game. In addition, “Julie Duffy, a spokeswoman for Hasbro, […]
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Midland’s assortment of weather radios. Image by Michael Knight Many parts of the United States are subjected to hazardous weather every year. One of the best ways to stay safe is to know when such weather threatens where you are located. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) runs a network of radio stations that […]
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Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending July 3, 2020. Gaming News Bicycle announced this week that they have named Wil Wheaton as their Global Board Game Ambassador. Wheaton, who is of course best known for sort of playing himself in The Big Band Theory […]
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60 years ago this month, the Ohio Art Company introduced the world to the Etch A Sketch, a remarkable (and sometimes remarkably frustrating) drawing toy. The concept was simple: one knob moved the stylus left and right, and the other knob moved the stylus up and down. Combine the two knobs, and you could draw […]
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Now that school is out, my kids and I have gotten caught up on a few movies that we missed from last summer and this spring, which also meant that I could finally peek into some of these art books. I always try to avoid reading them until after I’ve seen the movie because some […]
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Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending June 26, 2020. Gaming News Dice Tower and Boardgame Geek are teaming up to host Virtual Gaming Con, running through this weekend. Acclaimed designer Reiner Knizia’s newest title is Schotten Totten 2, an asymmetrical follow-up to 1999’s Schotten […]
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I know, I know, I just told you about two Kickstarter board games earlier this week, plus I ran a roundup post last week, but it does look like game publishers are getting back up to speed with projects, and everything is hitting all at once. Aside from the games I’ve already written up, there […]
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Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending June 19, 2020. Gaming News Speedy Roll is the 2020 Kinderspiel des Jahres (or kid’s Game of the Year). The game, published by Lifestyle Boardgames and Piatnik and designed by Urtis Šulinskas, allows players to roll a hedgehog […]
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Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending June 12, 2020. Gaming News In a Facebook post this week, GAMA announced that they were cancelling Origins Online, which has been scheduled for next weekend after the organization pushed back the live event several months ago. The […]
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