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  • I got Media Mogul

    I finally got my copy of Media Mogul. The production standards are a step up from Kogge, but it still isn’t pretty. Quality is better, however — the cardboard chits are properly printed, not laser printer work glued on cardboard. I’ll try the game next Sunday in the board game club. I’ll let you know…

  • Viva il Re!

    I wrote a review of Viva il Re! — in Finnish as usual. I’ve also reworked the front page of my Finnish game site, hope you enjoy the new look, if you’re a reader. I initially rated Viva il Re! as 9 at the Geek, but my rating has since come down to eight. That’s…

  • Four Dragons

    Four Dragons, the new edition of Dia de los Muertos is available, at least in Finland. The theme change is an interesting thing — I do like the original theme a lot. Frank Branham, the game’s designer, takes responsibility of the theme change (as mentioned in a relevant Geek thread). I think the new dragon…

  • Puerto Rico for PC

    Boardgameplayer links to the screenshots of the Puerto Rico PC game. The game looks quite pretty, but I hope the pretty 3d art isn’t the only way to play the game — it just doesn’t look that effective user interface. It’s pretty, that’s for sure. Well, we’ll see if we’ll even see the game outside…

  • San Juan

    I wrote a review of San Juan — in Finnish, as usual. San Juan is a brilliant game, which I like a lot (as you might have guessed already). It takes Puerto Rico and creates a fast-moving and entertaining card game out of it. Enough mechanics are retained so that the game feels the same,…

  • Nodwick: The Card Game

    A review of Nodwick: The Card Game is available. It’s in Finnish. I’ve written a preview of the game earlier, if you want to know more about the game but can’t understand Finnish. I like the game, but I do acknowledge it’s very dependant on the players. With some crowds, it just drags on pointlessly.…

  • Black Vienna

    I was so intrigued by Black Vienna that I decided to make my own copy (there’s no way I’m paying 60 euros for the game). Instead of using the cards available at the Geek, I made my own cards. I didn’t like the pictures and the font used and besides, the colour cards wouldn’t look…

  • Age of Steam maps

    Age of Steam will get another expansion set in the Autumn (it’ll be published at Essen, like the previous one). The double-sided map includes Scandinavia and Korea. This information is from French Gone Cardboard site and confirmed by Martin Wallace, who also told me the Scandinavian map doesn’t include Finland. Also, the Western US and…

  • Hammer of the Scots, rules v.2.0

    As I promised earlier, I hereby announce the version 2.0 rules for Hammer of the Scots have finally been published. You can go get them from Columbia Games Hammer web site. I don’t have Acrobat Reader installed on this computer, so I haven’t taken a look at them, but if they incorporate the changes mentioned…

  • Hexen Werk starting rule

    This is the rule regarding starting player from Hexen Werk by Yun Games: "The player who resembles a witch best begins the game. In case no player looks like a witch, the player with the biggest nose will start. In case all have similar sized noses and no one looks like a witch, oldest player…