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Foreign Policy: Guns of October
By Michael Peck: I played every game about the Yom Kippur War, so you don’t have to. Here’s what I learned. It was at 2 p.m. on the sixth day of October 1973 —
Read More »Welcome to the 2011 For The People BPA PBeM Tournament Page
By Tom Thornsen These games were completed by 4 May 2013 Don Chappell was the Game Master. Tom Thornsen and Michael Mitchell served as assistant GMs Tom Thornsen administered this web page and report game
Read More »Deseret News: Pay Dirt is an immersive board game about modern-day gold mining.
By Ryan Morgenegg The board game Pay Dirt is about the gritty and competitive world of modern-day gold mining in frigid Alaska. In this worker-placement-style game, players take the roles of enterprising mining companies
Read More »WSJ: This Spring, Mets Play for the Love of the (Trivia) Game
By JARED DIAMOND If you want to know which river is Europe’s longest, or which Chicago hotel was built in the Italian Renaissance style, someone in the dugout can probably tell you PORT ST. LUCIE,
Read More »“Tesla vs. Edison” from Antana Games now on Kickstarter
By Antana Games Staff New horizons and Tesla vs. Edison View this email in your browser Hi Everyone, We hope this note finds you well and getting fun games on the table on a regular
Read More »Deseret News: Versailles: a strategic palace building board game
By Ryan Morgenegg In the game Versailles by NSKN Games and U.S. publisher Passport Game Studios, legendary designer Andrei Novac creates a world where King Louis XIV of France hires two to five players
Read More »Deseret News: Game Review: Imperial Assault is Star Wars in a box
By Cody K. Carlson: When Fantasy Flight Games announced Star Wars: Imperial Assault at Gen Con, America’s largest board game trade show in August, it quickly became the most anticipated game of the year.
Read More »“The Lamps Are Going Out: World War I” – An Overview
By Scott Muldoon: On Saturday morning at GMT East this past weekend, Hermann Luttmann let us get a crack at Lamps, designed by Kirk Uhlmann. Kirk has done some wonderful work in boiling down
Read More »The Telegraph: Confessions of a ‘Grognard’: why I am an unashamed board game geek
By Dan Hodges “A confession. I am a Grognard. “Isn’t a Grognard a species of tropical fish?” assistant comment editor Tom Chivers asked me suspiciously when I outed myself this morning. No, a Grognard
Read More »The New Yorker: Dungeons and Dragons Saved My Life
BY Jon Michaud Dungeons & Dragons turns forty this year. The game, which I played in my youth, is entering middle age just a few years behind me. My interest in—or, I should say,
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