Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending February 28, 2020. Gaming News Gen Con badge registration is live! Make sure you grab your badges now and keep your eyes on this space for details on our annual Gaming with GeekDad event. Hopefully, everyone got the […]
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Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending February 21, 2020. Gaming News Gen Con badge registration is live! Make sure you grab your badges now and keep your eyes on this space for details on our annual Gaming with GeekDad event. Hopefully, everyone got the […]
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Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending February 14, 2020. Gaming News Gen Con badge registration is live! Make sure you grab your badges now and keep your eyes on this space for details on our annual Gaming with GeekDad event. Hopefully, everyone got the […]
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Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending February 7, 2020. Gaming News Gen Con badge registration is live! Make sure you grab your badges now and keep your eyes on this space for details on our annual Gaming with GeekDad event. Also, the housing lottery […]
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After a seemingly interminable wait, the Retro Champ portable NES/Famicom player from My Arcade is now available for purchase. For real! Announced last January at CES 2019, the Retro Champ promised authentic console gaming on the go for both your beloved Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges and your prized Famicom imports—with no need to fuss with […]
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Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending January 31, 2020. Gaming News Gen Con badge registration is live! Make sure you grab your badges now and keep your eyes on this space for details on our annual Gaming with GeekDad event. AEG and Thunderbox Entertainment […]
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‘Battle Babies’ Is a wacky deck-building card game about recruiting an army, battling your friends, and looking at cute babies. This post was sponsored by Stuffed Horse Games. Stuffed Horse Games has just launched a Kickstarter campaign for their first offering, Battle Babies. Battle Babies is a hilarious deck-building card game where you take part […]
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Reading Time: 9 minutes Put on your work boots and make sure your health insurance is paid up, because we’re headed to the dinosaur ranch. Feed and breed those dinos for lucrative contracts, and try not to get stepped on in the process! What Is Tiny Epic Dinosaurs? Tiny Epic Dinosaurs is a game for […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The team at XYZ Game Labs is on a nice roll: A Borderlands-licensed version of their first game, RobotLab was a hit at Gen Con 2019; they’ve hosted two successful Gen Con tournaments of their second game, Inoka – a rock-paper-scissors type card game with more strategy and fantastic art – […]
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Reading Time: 9 minutes Photo: Gold Cauldron Games Shape-shifting wizards, elemental spells, and risky wagers abound in Wizardz Bluff! Wizardz Bluff originally launched on Kickstarter in 2018 but was not able to fund, so designers Ron and Jayson Smith did some further development and tweaking, and are coming back with a new campaign next week. […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes The carnival is coming to town! And it’s up to you to make it the most impressive carnival this town has ever seen…do you have what it takes to build The Grand Carnival? What Is The Grand Carnival? The Grand Carnival is an action-selection, tile and polyomino placement game for 2-4 […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes image: NOA While it’s not exactly accurate to call 1993’s The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening a “hidden jewel” or a “lost chapter” in the LoZ saga—both the original Game Boy title and the 1998 GBC rerelease were critical and commercial successes—the game does stand out as a rarity of sorts […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Today I’m happy to introduce the American Tabletop Awards! I was invited to be a part of the award committee, which is made up of ten people involved in the board game industry and media, and we’ve been discussing and voting on games over the past few months. I’m excited to […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes My fully-fortified stone castle in After the Empire. (Prototype shown) Photo: Jonathan H. Liu Well, this fall has been a bit of a whirlwind for me! I took a little bit of a breather from Kickstarter reviews this summer because I was traveling, and I have a number of prototypes lined […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes You have probably never really wondered what might come from a team-up of one of the biggest names in gaming with the all-time winningest player on Jeopardy, but just in case you did, wonder no more: the answer is Half Truth, a trivia party game with a unique mechanic. What Is Half Truth? […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Collect ingredients, craft potions, and then use those to create powerful spells! Who will be the most successful of the Animalchemists? What Is Animalchemists? Animalchemists is a card game for 2 to 5 players, ages 8 and up, and takes about 20 minutes to play. It’s currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, with […]
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Reading Time: 9 minutes image: NOA Lest I bury the lede here, let me start off by saying that Fire Emblem: Three Houses is another undeniable must-own for the Nintendo Switch. Developed jointly by Intelligent Systems and Koei Tecmo Games, it is a dramatic tour de force that puts a high fantasy anime epic in […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes <img data-attachment-id="337689" data-permalink="https://geekdad.com/2019/07/weekly-dd-actual-play-launches-on-geekdad/dungeonsanddragons_launch/" data-orig-file="https://i1.wp.com/geekdad.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/07/dungeonsanddragons_launch.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1200,675" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="dungeons_and_dragons_launch" data-image-description=" D&D DieRolling Launch on GeekDad ” data-medium-file=”https://i1.wp.com/geekdad.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/07/dungeonsanddragons_launch.png?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i1.wp.com/geekdad.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/07/dungeonsanddragons_launch.png?fit=1000%2C563&ssl=1″ class=”wp-image-337689 size-full” src=”https://i1.wp.com/geekdad.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/07/dungeonsanddragons_launch.png?resize=1200%2C675&ssl=1″ alt=”DieRolling Launch” width=”1200″ height=”675″ data-recalc-dims=”1″ />DieRolling are six Dungeons & Dragons Twitch/YouTube streamers from England Dungeons & Dragons actual play live streaming is here! Introducing DieRolling – the proud new partner […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes AEG hosts a Big Game Night at Gen Con each year where they run demos of their games. This year, AEG is opening up the event to folks who can’t make it to Gen Con, too: game stores have the opportunity to host a Big Game Night, which also gives them […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes I love dexterity games. Anything that involves stacking or slicking or rolling or balancing. Games like Jenga, Junk Art, and Suspend. They’re easy to learn and–even better–easy to teach. They don’t come with any of the assumptions or stigma of heavy, crunchy boardgames. Instead, you can break them out at a moment’s notice and […]
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