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Two New Games, One Designer, Two totally different reviews

By Gordon1018 at 7 February, 2010, 11:08 am

I have a few designers that are my favorites.  Friedmann Friesse has always been innovative and interesting (Power Grid, Funny Friends, Fast Flowing Forest Fellers).  Vlaada Chvatil is easily my favorite designer of late (Dungeon Lords, Space Alert, Galaxy Trucker).  The great thing about gaming is that there are always new people to experience games [...]

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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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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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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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wrap up- video part 2

By Gordon1018 at 6 January, 2010, 10:26 pm

Here’s the continuation of the Stevenson’s BGG.con saga.  Hope you’re enjoying the videos so far.
Leave comments.  We’d love to hear from you and if there are any games we talk about in this video you’d like to hear more about, let us know and we’ll do a bigger review in the future.
Thanks for wattching, tell [...]

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