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Gaming year 2006

Once again the year is over and it's time for the year-end report. Here's 2005 for comparison... Good games published in 2006 Age of Steam: London and Sun, 1830's Pennsylvania and Northern California - I've played one map from each...

Posted by Mikko on January 2, 2007 8:00 AM

Hot Games for Q3/2006

Here's a list of hottest games for the third quarter of 2006 for me. This is based on number of plays, my enjoyment of the game and the novelty value, so new games tend to show up higher on the...

Posted by Mikko on October 12, 2006 12:12 PM

Finnish Game of the Year awards

Finnish Game of the Year awards for 2006 are out now, and what a huge disappointment they are! Best children's game is Build-a-Burger (I would've given the award to Das kleine Gespenst, but I don't know anything about Build-a-Burger). Best...

Posted by Mikko on September 15, 2006 7:31 AM

Elasund and Farlander - final sessions

I met the two Ollis and Antti from Board Game Society forums (he was picking up the Power Grid he bought from me) for games last Thursday. Little I knew that our peaceful off-season university cafe would be overrun by...

Posted by Mikko on August 27, 2006 7:40 AM

Elasund

Finnish review of Elasund. Elasund--> Elasund is the latest Catan spinoff. Players are building the first city in Catan, trying to reap glory by getting their buildings to fill the city. The game has surface similarities to Catan - the...

Posted by Mikko on August 25, 2006 7:06 AM

Elasund, Elasund, Elasund

Met Olli today. The dish of the day was Elasund, the latest Settlers spin-off. The Settlers element is pretty much resource production roll to start the turn, 10 victory points to gather and... well, that's about it. Elasund--> The game...

Posted by Mikko on August 18, 2006 7:47 PM

New games

Got Elasund and Farlander from Tactic. Both are interesting games in their own way. Elasund Farlander--> Elasund is, of course, the latest game in the Catan franchise. The Catan basics are there (die roll for resource production, building to ten...

Posted by Mikko on August 10, 2006 7:01 PM

Friday, day three: Games, games, games

Here's what happened yesterday: Today was the day! I went downstairs to use the hotel laptop to send my reports, which I did, and then headed back to the room. I glanced towards the dining room, and who did I...

Posted by Mikko on October 15, 2005 9:31 AM