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Finnish Players’ Picks 2004
Ok, finally: Finnish Players’ Picks 2004 voting is over, votes have been tallied and I can announce the results: Puerto Rico wins, again. Carcassonne is second and catches up, losing only by two votes. Once again, there’s a GeekList of the top games (here’s last year’s list). The whole list can be seen at the…
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The Games Journal
The October Games Journal is finally out. There’s no doubt about the best article of this issue: it’s Dan Bosley’s Misadventures in Gaming. I’m so glad to see he’s back in action! You can find 19 earlier episodes at Terminal City Gamers article page. They are simply hilarious!
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Weekend games: Fifth Avenue
The weekend is over and I finally have time to write about the games I played. The first thing we tried was the game I was most interested about: Fifth Avenue. And yeah, it was interesting. After one game, my initial rating is eight, which is pretty good considering Fifth Avenue’s a bit low average…
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Finnish Players’ Picks, coming right up!
Friday’s are slow at work. Thus, I had plenty of time to tally the votes for the Finnish Players’ Picks. However, I’m not telling you anything yet, you’ll have to wait for another boring day at work before I do the GeekList. All I’m saying that top of the list had both same old hits…
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GeekSpeak
The guys at BoardGameGeek have done a radio show. You can download the mp3 from Aldie’s GeekJournal, it’s about 16 megs and 61 minutes. I wasn’t going to listen to it first, but then Iain said it was ok. I got it on my portable mp3 player and listened to it at work while I…
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Games ahead
It’s been quiet recently. My gaming activities have been more focused on the console games side, but hey, things are heating up here as well. Next weekend I’m heading to Jyväskylä to see my mother and Ismo and as usual, games are in schedule. I’m looking forward to finally try Fifth Avenue, but I suppose…
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International Gamers Awards 2004
The winner of the International Gamers Awards is St. Petersburg. Neat. When I wrote about the nominees, I wished but didn’t expect it to win. Now the game has won both IGA and DSP awards — my taste in games is better than I thought, it seems. It is no surprise that I was correct…
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RSS feed with comments
Because I have little to write about games, I’ll meddle with blog technology. Iain had one, it was cool, I want one: a RSS feed with comments included.
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Settlers of Catan outselling Monopoly in the Netherlands
Gameblogger tells a rumour about Settlers of Catan outselling Monopoly in the Netherlands last year. If that’s true, it’s certainly good news. Even with the Finnish Catan now out, I wouldn’t bet on that happening in Finland.
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Yours truly at Madeira
Here’s a picture of me at Madeira. Our hotel had, in addition to a tennis court, table tennis, two swimming pools and a spa, some nice little outdoors Chess equipment. We didn’t play, but I did pose for a picture one evening. As for my clothes, well, we were heading for the hotel restaurant which…