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Category: Outside world

  • Spielboy

    A new issue of Spielboy is out (actually, it’s been out for a while now). Check it out!

  • The Games Journal

    A new issue of The Games Journal is out. The articles didn’t impress me much, but this time the game reviews were the best part of the journal. I like the two-person dialogue of the Hellas review, it’s something I could try myself, too. Mitchell Thomashow’s review of Tom Tube has some quite interesting pondering…

  • Interesting Go resources

    Here are some interesting Go resources: Kifu generator creates nice diagrams from SGF files. If you want to study your games off-line, this one’s for you. Mind Sports Zine has an interesting Go section which hasn’t been updated in a while, but still has lots of useful information. Go Learn, a series by Charles Matthews…

  • The Games Journal

    A new issue of The Games Journal is out. This time the article selection isn’t that inspiring… There’s an article about tie-breakers, which I don’t find very inspiring. Why is it so hard to accept that games can sometimes end as ties? I don’t see a reason to invent new tie-breakers, especially if the game…

  • New game-related blogs

    There are two new blogs listed on the sidebar of my blog. I’ve been reading Boardgames-To-Go by Mark Johnson for a while now (since he switched providers and got a RSS feed). It’s good read and highly recommended. Then this Dutch blogger mailed me about her blog asking for permission to use my RSS feed…

  • Gamer sense of humor

    Who says gamers don’t have a sense of humour: GeekList of X-rated games — terribly funny! BoardgameGeek entry #69: Bollox GeekList of haiku reviews GeekList of devilishly good games — there’s no fun like satanic fun

  • The Games Journal

    A new issue of The Games Journal has been published. Quite good, too. Greg Alecnevikus has written an interesting article about his Space Hulk project and Dave Shapiro has written a good article about “milestone” board games. There’s also a review of Balloon Cup and bless me, I’ve never figured out the card distributions vary…

  • Kill Doctor Lucky

    Cheapass Games website has a page full of interesting Kill Doctor Lucky variants. There’s the one I’ve been thinking about — the one in which players can kill each other. I should try some of them one of these days… (via nimrods)

  • Don Bone interview

    Terminal City Gamers have posted an interesting interview of Don Bone, the designer of Sunda to Sahul, on their web site.

  • New Boardgamegeek functions

    BoardGameGeek keeps getting better and better. Latest new gadget is a list of game rating correlations with other users. That way you can know who other users enjoy similar games as you do, so you can perhaps value their opinions more. That’s rather neat and pretty useful. You can also get a list of recommended…