Posts Tagged ‘GMT Games’
“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!” – 1989: Dawn of Freedom Reviewed
Game Name: 1989: Dawn of Freedom Publisher: GMT Designer: Jason Matthews and Ted Torgerson Year: 2012 Players: 2 Ages: 15+ Playing Time: Two Hours Genre: Card driven game of geopolitics Retail Price: $67.00 Components On...
Terror in the Night: Bomber Command Reviewed
Game Name: Bomber Command Publisher: GMT Designer: Lee Brimmicombe-Wood Year: 2012 Players: 2 Ages: 15+ Playing Time: Two Hours Genre: WWII Aerial Bombing Wargame Retail Price: $67.00 Components One 8.5″ x 11″...
Like Us on Facebook and Win 1989: Dawn of Freedom!
Now through April 30th simply “like” The Gaming Gang on Facebook and have a chance to score a copy of 1989: Dawn of Freedom, coming soon from our friends at GMT. 1989 is a game that is really on Elliott’s and ...
Playdek Announces GMT’s Commands and Colors Coming to Mobile Devices
We already know that we can look forward to a PC version of Twilight Struggle coming from our friends at GMT and now we’ve learned Playdek has announced a partnership to bring Commands and Colors: Ancients to mobile devic...
Urban Sprawl is a Good Thing? GMT’s Urban Sprawl Reviewed
Game Name: Urban Sprawl Publisher: GMT Games Designer: Chad Jensen Year: 2011 Players: 2-4 Ages: 13+ Playing Time: 90 minutes to three hours Retail Price: $70.00 Category: Hefty Eurostyle Strategy From GMT: Players assume the r...
GMT Bring the Resistance to Combat Commander
Building upon the successful Combat Commander line, GMT Games has released the expansion Resistance! Battle as never before behind enemy lines in a dozen new scenarios. The expansion features special rules and components for fi...
1989 Dawn of Freedom Due Q1 2012
GMT Games is in final development for 1989 Dawn of Freedom. This game is about the collapse of the Soviet Empire with mechanics similar to Twilight Struggle, but rumored to be even better.
Out of Work? GMT Wants to Send You Two Free Games!
We don’t make it a secret around here of our unadulterated love of just about all things GMT. Not only does the company consistently provide some of the best thinking man/woman’s strategy games available – bar none – bu...
When 3x Just Isn’t Enough, Space Empires 4x Reviewed
Space Empires 4X is an empire building and conquest War Game. There are a lot of galaxy domination games on the market, but Space Empires has some innovation built into it to distinguish it from other games in the pack.
GMT Races Thunder Alley onto P500
Stock car racing fans should get their motors running with the announcement that GMT is bringing Thunder Alley to their P500 preorder system. This looks like an interesting design with a lot of appeal to both serious and not so...
Space Empires 4X Now Available at Retailers
Space Empires 4X from GMT Games is available at select retailers now. If you've been looking forward to it, now is the time to pick it up.
Live Online Demo from GMT for Infidel
Coming Thursday, Sept 1st at 8:30 PM EST GMT Games will host a live online demo of their game Infidel.
Live Online Nightfighter Demo from GMT Monday Night
You'll have to hurry! Monday, August 22nd at 8:30 PM EST GMT Games will be hosting a free live online demonstration of their newly published Nightfighter wargame.
Multiple Contacts Coming In: A Review of Nightfighter
This was quite an ambitious undertaking. The simulation of nighttime air defense against bombers in WWII. Nightfighter allows you to play with a number of different aircraft on both sides of the war.
Early Thoughts on ConSimWorld Expo 2011
One of the premiere wargaming events, in the US, is currently taking place in Tempe, Arizona. Organized by John Krantz, ConSimWorld Expo (an offshoot of the ConSimWorld website) is celebrating its eleventh year and it’s bigge...
Urban Sprawl…Getting Some Elbow Room from GMT
Coming this August: Urban Sprawl from GMT! Build the city, tear it down, and build it bigger! The player with the most Wealth and Prestige wins the game!
A Wargame Design for the 21st Century: Fighting Formations GMID Reviewed
Designer Chad Jensen’s latest, Fighting Formations: Grossdeutschland Motorized Infantry Division, is a platoon-level tactical war game wargame set during the Second World War focusing on historical battles fought by that divi...
GMT and VPG Team for Fading Glory
Two of our favorite companies, GMT and Victory Point Games, are teaming up once again for the addition of Fading Glory to GMTs P500 list. From VPG: Fading Glory is the second game (No Retreat – The Russian Front Deluxe ...
The Gaming Gang Episode 11 – Guest Alan Emrich and Reviews of Cargo Noir, The Lost Cause, and C&C: Napoleonics
A look at some of the latest gaming news as well as reviews of Cargo Noir from Days of Wonder, The Lost Cause from Victory Point Games, and Commands and Colors: Napoleonics from GMT.
The boys also introduce their newest segm...
The Gaming Gang Episode Nine: Tobago, TactDecks, Cookie Fu and More!
Due to unforseen computer issues the show was a day late, but we more than make up for it! James Engelhardt joins Jeff this episode and they take a look at some of the latest gaming news as well as review Tobago from Rio Grande...
Manoeuvre Your Way to Fun: GMT’s Manoeuvre Reviewed
This is by no means a true historical simulation and is more of an introductory game to share with non-wargaming friends. You can run through a game in around an hour or less, in my opinion, and there’s plenty here to bring y...
A War Without End? – A Review of Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ?
I’m not sure if a game can be important, as in “important” in the great scheme of things since we are talking about a game of course. I obviously know board games are used as learning tools and to teach. If we're looking ...
Don’t Tread on Me: A Review of Washington’s War
Rather than getting bogged down with a complete rehash of the rules (which can be downloaded direct from GMT at no cost) let’s take a more high level look at the playing experience of Washington’s War.
Silly Animal Carnage: A Review of Leaping Lemmings
Leaping Lemmings has pretty cute art and a silly, oddly morbid theme where you are attempting to get your family of genetically engineered lemmings to leap to their death in the most spectacular way.
The Conclusion of Our Exclusive Interview with GMT’s Tony Curtis
Let's pick right up from where we left off with my interview with GMT's Tony Curtis...
Jeff McAleer: Twilight Struggle is a fabulous game and is almost always in the top five over on Board Game Geek - I believe it's current...
Want a Chance to Play Twilight Struggle on your PC?
GMT Games announced that they have begun working with programmers to develop computer versions of their popular games Twilight Struggle and Labyrinth.
Our Exclusive Interview with Tony Curtis of GMT – Part One
I’d like to start off by thanking Tony Curtis, one of the managing partners of GMT Games, for taking time out to agree to this exclusive interview right here on The Gaming Gang. I do want to point out that we conducted this i...
One of Jeff’s Favorite Game Companies
Being involved in every aspect of putting together what folks see and hear on The Gaming Gang it’s not difficult to realize that Elliott, James, and I spend a quite a bit of time talking to a lot of people behind the scenes a...
Yo Ho, Yo Ho: A Review of Blackbeard
If you're looking to be Johnny Depp playing a pirate in a movie you should just move along right now. If you want to have a great time as you play a game simulating what the life of a pirate may have been? Come right in!
A Prehistoric Rumble: A Review of Dominant Species
GMT is perhaps the premiere publisher devoted to producing top notch war games. As a company GMT hasn't dived headfirst into the eurogame market (and I hope they never stop cranking out some of the best traditional style war ga...
