Posts Tagged ‘Sneak Peeks’
A Sneak Peek at Who’s Got Game
Game Name: Who’s Got Game Publisher: Ark’s Mind Designer: Adam Kornblum, Neil Strauss Year: 2012 Players: 4 – 12 (Even Number) Ages: 18+ Retail Price: $29.99 Category: Party Game From Ark’s Mind: Neil Strauss, seven-ti...
Meet Victory Point Games 2.0
Big changes have been taking place at The Little Game Company That Could and one of them is the announcement of the new Gold Banner line of games coming soon from Victory Point Games. These new releases will feature a higher le...
Fantasy Flight Games Gives a First Look at Descent 2nd Edition
Fantasy Flight Games will be bringing Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd Edition to the gaming community sometime in the next few months. For now, they have released a first look at the new edition on the FFG Website. Here is th...
The South Shall Rise Again! in Playtesting at Victory Point Games
Here’s a look at the current playtesting of the upcoming historical/horror game, The South Shall Rise Again!, to be published by Victory Point Games. VPG designer, developer, and our pal John Welch has this report: The ta...
No Time for Tea: A Preview of In Defeat, Defiance
No Time for Tea: A Preview of In Defeat, Defiance, a Heroes of the Blitzkrieg Expansion Module By Dale Holmstrom After a long dry spell of not being creative—unless you count having your first child at the age of forty-three ...
A Gamer’s First Impressions of Warparty
Mark Walker of Lock ‘n Load Games shared this first impression he received regarding the new title Warparty which is coming soon… First Encounter By Norm Lunde At this year’s NJCON (see www.njcon.org) I had th...
A Sneak Peek at Gunship: First Strike
Gunship: First Strike is an Escape Pod Games core release in a planned series of tactical space combat games. Players fight to win battles in a futuristic civil war with a variety of ship types. From the agile and speedy Fighte...
Sneak Peek: Khazad-dûm for Lord of the Rings – The Card Game
Here’s a quick look at the first deluxe expansion, Khazad-dûm, for The Lord of the Rings – The Card Game from Fantasy Flight Games. From FFG: “For a while we had news and it seemed good: messages reported that Mo...
Mark H. Walker Looks at Heroes of the Pacific
After a brief hiatus from World War II, the award-wining Lock ‘n Load game system returns to the Second War to end all wars with a vengeance. Twelve frantic firefights from America’s island-hopping campaign in the Pacific c...
Sneak Peek: Against the Odds Tackles Bradley’s D-Day
Against the Odds Magazine brings forth their third “Campaign Study” and this time it’s a look at the first two days of the D-Day invasion from the American point of view. The entire magazine will be devoted to...
The Quick and the Dead: A Look at Heroes of the Gap from Lock ‘n Load
Let’s face it, there are a lot of us war-gamers who yearn for the good ole’ days of the Cold War. Back then there was a clear good guy and a clear bad guy in the world, and it all made more sense. After the fall of the Berl...
The Gaming Gang Extra Number 12: A Preview of Vul-Con 2012
Elliott and Jeff spend a Sunday morning chatting with Jay Mann and Rick Ivansek, the organizers of the upcoming Vul-Con convention taking place in Phoenix, AZ this February 25th and 26th 2012.
The event is being billed as â€...
A Sneak Peek at PostHumous Z
PostHumous Z was a one man project that took designer Nathan Little two years to complete. An entire year was spent on the mechanics and gameplay, the other was spent creating original artwork for the game, of which no small pa...
Sneak Peek: For The Crown…Victory Point Games
I recently had an opportunity to playtest a new game to be released from VPG. The game is called For the Crown and is designed by Jeremy Lennert. In essence, it is a chess deck building game. While this may sound odd, it is...
Guards! Guards!: A Discworld Playtest Report
David Brashaw and Leonard Boyd from Backspindle Games were kind enough to share this exclusive look into the playtesting of their upcoming Discworld themed game, Guards! Guards!
An Early Look at Some of the 2011 Z-Man Games Line Up
Z-Man Games has begun to give a look at part of their 2011 line up of games and here's a look at some of the titles that will be making their way to your table tops.
Sneak Peak at TC Tennis from Victory Point Games
As we mentioned in our last show, Victory Point Games is jumping into the sports game arena with TC Tennis! Obviously the “TC” stands for designer Terry Coleman. From what I’ve seen of the components it looks ...
Gamewright and Ceaco Sneak Peek at NYC Toy Fair Offerings
As the New York Toy Fair approaches, Gamewright and Ceaco have announced some of their upcoming family titles for the first half of 2011. You don’t have to be heading to the Big Apple to get a quick look at some of the re...
Recreating the Masters: A Sneak Peek at Pastiche
Coming soon, from Gryphon Games, is Pastiche. The object of the game is to collect as many victory points as you can by completing numerous classic paintings by the European masters.
A First Look at the Heroes Expansion Minis for Defenders of the Realm
Currently in development is the heroes expansion for Eagle Games' excellent Defenders of the Realm and TGG has a first look at the prototypes of the miniatures to be included. The tentative name for the expansion is Defenders o...
Godzilla is Getting Ready to Stomp Your Table Top!
It's time for fans of Japanese giant monster movies to rejoice as the grandaddy of all time, the big radioactive lizard himself, Godzilla prepares to make his way to your gaming table! Toy Vault Inc has announced the King of Mo...
It’s Not Easy, Hitting the Green
I confess that I have been looking for a good golf simulation board game for a while now. I have tried all of zero games. Golf is ideal video game material, and does very well in that medium, but I have played some good basebal...
Sneak Peek: Mousquetaires du Roy
Coming up at this October’s game extravaganza in Essen, French publisher Ystari Games will reveal its first novel-to-game adaptation with the release of the semi-cooperative game Mousquetaires du Roy (“The King’s Musk...
