Archive for January, 2010

No New Games! No, Seriously it'll happen this time

By Gordon1018 at 28 January, 2010, 7:54 am

We’ve all done it.  We’ve promised ourselves, our spouses, and our wallets that there would be no new game spending.  And like a heroin addict, we;ve broken that promise.  We can’t help it.  There are so many new shiny games out there. To make matters, worse there are people like us here at Games Overboard [...]

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No D&D For WI Prisoners

By mercutiom at 25 January, 2010, 2:52 pm

Now I’m not really a D&D player, and yes, in the past I’ve even been one of those brutes making fun of them.  But I’ve softened over the years, and I’ve even tried my hand at a round or two (and been wiped out by my own team because, yeah, I was just that bad [...]

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A weekend in the woods with 9 friends, and 100 Games

By Gordon1018 at 21 January, 2010, 5:07 pm

Last weekend, we took a trip to Greer, AZ for a long weekend of fun in the snow (being from Phoenix, not many of us get to see it often)  We planned this a long time ago, and were really excited.  I packed up about 100 games to choose from and we took off.  The [...]

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Updating The Design

By mercutiom at 20 January, 2010, 7:36 pm

Just a quick note to all of our faithful watchers and readers out there (yeah, I’m talking to both of you) I’m working on redesigning the website.  I’m looking to put something together that has a better flow and allows us to feature some articles and videos is a more efficient way.
On that note, I’m [...]

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BGG.con 2009 Final wrap up part

By Gordon1018 at 19 January, 2010, 5:21 pm

Here’s the final part of the three part series about our BGG.con 2009 experience.  WE just got back froma  weekend of gaming and I played a whole bunch of new stuff, so you’ll be hearing from me a lot very soon.  In the “REad the rest of the entry” area I’v also re-embedded the other [...]

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