Review - ESSEN The Game: SPIEL'13 (2014) - Geek Attitude Games

The Blurb:

ESSEN the Game is a strategy game where each player is a visitor at the International Game Fair of Essen. With your wishlist, face the crowd and make your way to the stands of your favorite publishers. However, beware that games availability is limited. To achieve your goals, you have to manage your budget and encumbering. The number of games that you carry will reduce your moves in the fair. You will need to come back to the parking lot to store your purchases in your car before getting back to the fair in search of that special game.

High Noon in Punchtown

When I was on vacation last month, I had a day where my wife was working and I had nothing going on. The kids didn't want to do anything, so I called Mike and asked him to come over and play games. The first game out of the gate was Cowboys: The Way of the Gun. Cowboys is a pretty straightforward western shootout. You can play cards to help you, or hinder you opponent (such as making their gun misfire, or making them slip and fall over), or you can shoot people.  ...Or, you can run away, ya yellowbelly!

Review - Flapjacks and Sasquatches (2008) - Prolific Games

The Blurb

Flapjacks and Sasquatches is an easy, "take that" style card game in which you want to chop down the tree card in front of you. The card has both a "chop" value and a point value; using Axe cards, you roll dice to try to meet or exceed the "chop" value. When you do, you collect the tree (and the points). Flapjack cards can add to your roll, while blister cards can take away.

FFG Announces Newly-Expanded Lineup

First Announcement:  Fantasy Flight's Newest Franchise

Fantasy Flight Games has announced plans to further develop and expand their popular Eldritch Horror franchise with an innovative new spinoff, based in same popular universe.

Review - Cube Quest (2013) - Gamewright

The Blurb:

Cube Quest is a dexterity game in which lightweight hollow cubic dice are flicked across custom rubber mats. Cubes that leave the mats are defeated. Play alternates until someone wins by defeating the enemy king. Cubes also risk defeat in enemy territory; if they land "shadow" side up, they have been captured and must be rolled, like dice, to determine whether they escape. The cubes have different strengths and special abilities, such as taking extra flicks, immobilizing enemy cubes, reviving lost cubes, and hiding before strategic re-positioning. The game allows for custom army building using a simple point system. Pre-battle setup involves a tactical selection of cubes worth a total of 40 points maximum to fight alongside their king. Each player also chooses how to position their cubes, creating individual attack and defense formations and structures!

That time I went to Boardgame Mecca

Last December was my daughter's 13th birthday. We decided to take her to the one place our teenager would be super excited about....Harry Potter World in Florida. When the plane landed, I had a mission.  A mission that only the patient wife of a game addict would understand. That's right, true believers! I was going to Cool Stuff, Inc., and I was going to get to go before the rest of the official trip even started.

Review - Longhorn (2013) - Blue Orange Games

The Blurb:

In Longhorn, the players assume the roles of two particularly feared outlaws: Eagle Perkins and Jessie Artist Byrd. The aim of the game is simple: to steal cattle (and a few gold nuggets, if possible) to see who can amass the most money by the end of the game — or who can get his opponent arrested by the sheriff!