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Category: Outside world

  • European partnership Crokinole championship tournament

    The first European partnership Crokinole championship tournament will be fought on February 11th in Dresden, Germany. More information will be available at the Crokinole Companions web site at some point. If I was anywhere near, I would definitely participate, but I’m afraid Crokinole isn’t a reason good enough to spend the money on travel, even…

  • New blogs

    Check out Boardgamers’ Pastime, a fairly new blog from Mario Lanza. The entries so far look great and the Tikal logo is absolutely gorgeous. Also worth checking out is the latest project of mine, Best of Board Games, which aims to link to various interesting board game resources. It’s a bit of a work-in-progress at…

  • The Gone Gaming Board Game Internet Awards

    Here’s something you don’t see every day: a board game website award! The Gone Gaming Board Game Internet Awards is a bunch of awards for the best board game websites in different categories. Vote for Gameblog!

  • Play-by-web Puerto Rico

    I want to try the play-by-web Puerto Rico at PR-Game.com. The interface is, erhm, interesting, but I want to see how it turns out. I’m missing Puerto Rico action, so I thought that might be a good avenue. So, anyway, I started a game for four players. Hop in if you’re interested. Players of all…

  • Yours truly on Radio Free Finland

    Phil Schwarzmann from Finland for Thought, who you also might know from Spielfrieks or BoardGameGeek, hosts a weekly live podcast called Radio Free Finland. Every week he interviews some guests about a topic or other, and this week I was on the show. We talked about board games, Finnish blogosphere and my experiences in Who…

  • God, Candyland and the travels of Die Macher

    Yehuda wrote an article called The Designer’s Rules in the Gone Gaming blog. Go read it, as it was both funny and educating! And God said, “Let there be choice!” And there was choice, and each player now had two pawns, such that when they flipped a card, that player had to choose which pawn…

  • Rick Thornquist is back

    Everybody and their brother already blogged this, but hey, I’ve got a personal interest in it: Rick Thornquist is back, reporting board game news! This time it’s through his own site, Boardgame News. The site features a wide array of columnists and reporters, providing readers with regular columns and news from around the world. Here’s…

  • Loads of blogs

    As long as we’re linking is a big list of board game blogs. I picked several new ones on my Bloglines lists. Thanks, Yehuda!

  • HABA games in Finland

    Parents of small children, note: Lahjalinna sells HABA board games in Finland. The HABA area at the Essen fair looked absolutely gorgeous. I know when we get kids, I must get some of those games.

  • The One Hundred

    Mark Jackson and Stephen Glenn are publishing the results of a project called The One Hundred, where they’ve asked 65 eurogamers their 15 favourite games ever, scored the results and compiled them into a list of 100 best games ever. The results are published one by one… It should make interesting reading for a while!