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Finnish Game of the Year winners 2005
Finnish Game of the Year winners have been declared. They reflect the Spiel des Jahres awards closely. Best children’s game is Geistertreppe, 2004 Kinder Spiel des Jahres winner. Kids loved the ghost mechanism and thought the game was funny and exciting. What’s more to ask? Best family game is Ticket to Ride, 2004 Spiel des…
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Best of the Blogosphere
Alfred’s Best of the Blogosphere is a most welcome development. Alfred from Musings, Ramblings and Things Left Unsaid picks highlights from the board game blogs every week, pointing readers to the most interesting entries. I like it, but I think it could be even better. Make a new blog out of it and perhaps get…
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Mhing and votes
Johanna handed me my butt, properly kicked, after a quick match of Mhing. She won four rounds, I got two, with score total of 160-64. She’s phenomenal! Finnish Players’ Picks -votes have been trickling in. 51 gamers have already voted. The results look both interesting and unsurprising. I guess it’s not a big surprise which…
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StreetSoccer ratings
When I walked to work today, I thought about StreetSoccer. I don’t count the play-by-web games in my statistics, but if I did, StreetSoccer would be second on my most-played games list; I’ve so far played 270 games at Little Golem. Early on my career my rating dipped down to below 1400 (it’s an ELO…
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The Games Journal
The September issue of The Games Journal is out. It’s fairly thick, too! Greg Aleknevicus has written a good article on deduction games, while Bruno Faidutti comments well on the concept of game balance.
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Finnish Players’ Picks voting started!
Come September and another round of Finnish Players’ Picks voting! All Finnish gamers (and gamers living in Finland) are invited to vote for their favourite games. The rules are the same as usual: vote for five to seven of the best games you actually played last year. More information at the voting pages. There’s also…
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Architekton
I was thinking about getting Architekton (as a companion to another small-box Queen game, Turbo Taxi, which is a must-buy for me), but after I read Mary (sodaklady) write about in Gone Gaming: Techniques to Recruit The Non-gamer in Your Home, I’ve changed my mind. Mary’s entry hit my doubts fairly well — I’ll skip…
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Another new blog!
Gathering of Engineers is another group blog, started by the members of Rip City Gamers group. That includes Chris Brooks, Dave Eggleston (Death Metal Cafe), Eric Landes (Incunabula), KC Humphrey (game design guru) and others. The start seems promising.
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Boxes
Shannon Appelcline wrote a good article on game boxes in the Gone Gaming blog. The Problem with Game Boxes is a lament for the variety of different box sizes these games of ours come in: This might seem a pretty minor issue to kibitz about, but I suspect that storage issues affect just about anyone…
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Board game blog review (and linking)
I think board game bloggers could link to each other a bit more. Most blogs have a blogroll, that’s good (and quite a few link to me, that’s always nice!). Still, maybe few more entries with links to other board game blogs wouldn’t be bad? Pointing out the best stuff in other blogs, you know.…