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The Games Journal
A new issue of The Games Journal is out. As usual, the articles are top-notch. The best article in my opinion is the review of Age of Steam. Spielboy has also received some small updates.
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Spielboy
First issue of Spielboy is out. The site is a strange parody of Playboy, with articles about board games. And yeah, there’s some (semi) nudity — with games, of course. Strange. I don’t care much for the nudity (I read it for the articles), but it seems like a funny idea. We’ll see how the…
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The Games Journal
The latest issue of The Games Journal is out. There’s an interesting article on objectively rating games and another about control vs luck/chaos in games. Go take a look!
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Goban beauty
Blake Haber contacted me and sent a link to his web site about Go. It is highly recommended; he has some very interesting and untraditional Goban designs. There’s also some information about Go books and a nifty movie clip, which is very much worth looking through.
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Recent action
I’ve been hanging around at the Puolenkuun Pelit web forum. There’s not much about board games, but it’s been curious to watch and participate nevertheless. Also, they’re planning a gaming weekend in September, which looks like a good event. Yesterday I prepared my talk about board games, which I’ll be having tomorrow when the game…
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The Games Journal
A new issue of The Games Journal is out. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but the articles seem interesting. Especially the one about the evolution of German games — it should be handy when I prepare my talk for the game studies group next Thursday.
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Puolenkuun pelit
Finnish gamers might want to check out the Lahti-based game store Puolenkuun pelit. Their website has nice, bright colours and perhaps a bit annoying design, but they do have some good board games in stock (however, I don’t know about their level of service; I’d guess it’s decent, at least they seem to have some…
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The Games Journal
A new issue of The Games Journal is out. This time, because of some technical problems, there are no articles, just a game, puzzle, letters and four reviews. So, it’s not quite as good as it usually is, but I do think it’s great that they published even something. Hopefully the next few issues will…
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The Games Journal
A new issue of The Games Journal is out. Check it out, I especially recommend the player interaction article by Greg Aleknevicus.
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The Games Journal
A new issue of The Games Journal is out. In includes a rather interesting article about categorizing games based on player experience by Richard Vickery. There’s also an article by yours truly about tournaments, a story about the Sid Sackson auction and a propaganda for diversification of the board game industry. On top of that,…