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Gaming year 2008

So, how was the year? Pretty wild, if you ask me. Good new games (2007-2008 games) Dominion - Well, I played 28 games of this, and most of them outside BrettSpielWelt. That's a pretty nice number, considering how late this...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2009 7:46 AM

Finnish Players' Picks 2008

Oops, looks like I forgot to publish the Finnish Players' Picks results for 2008. Well, better late than never! To see the top 28, see Finnish Players' Picks 2008 GeekList. For complete list (in Finnish, but the data speaks math),...

Posted by Mikko on October 23, 2008 8:20 AM

It's Essen time again

The Christmas is coming, by which I mean Essen. There's a pile of new games getting published, but I'm really not very interested in most of them. I mean, there's plenty of nice stuff coming, but in the end, I...

Posted by Mikko on October 17, 2008 7:04 AM

Thursday session: New England Railways

My Thursday games started with a quick 2-0 loss in Truc and a four-player game of Race for the Galaxy. It's been a while since I played Race, but I was in good form and able to win (ok,...

Posted by Mikko on September 19, 2008 7:01 PM

Hot games for Q1/2008

Oh my, another quarter gone! The previous one was good, how about this one? Wabash Cannonball is the hottest of the hot, and no wonder. I've loved every game so far. I'd like to try a five-player game at some...

Posted by Mikko on April 3, 2008 1:11 PM

Games day with Tommy and Stefu: Trains and stuff

Tommy and Stefu came over to spend a day playing games. Johanna was very kind to take Nooa to her parents so we could have our place for us. A chance to play longer, meatier games in such a great...

Posted by Mikko on March 30, 2008 2:29 PM

Tracon III

I spent most of my yesterday attending Tracon. Tracon is a yearly convention here in Tampere, this was the third time it was organized. Tracon is mostly about anime, manga and role-playing games. In the first two Tracon's, I don't...

Posted by Mikko on February 17, 2008 8:21 PM

Race for the Galaxy

Race for the Galaxy is one of the hot games right now. The fans - Brian Bankler, for example, his Tao of Gaming is a must read - are babbling about it a lot, and no wonder, as it...

Posted by Mikko on January 28, 2008 7:10 PM

Board game club: Antiquity

It's been a while since I last visited the board game club. Bad timing and busy weekends... It was a real pleasure to go and to celebrate, I decided to play something heavier that doesn't quite work with our...

Posted by Mikko on January 21, 2008 11:41 AM

Hot games for Q4/2007

And here's the one final bit of trivia for 2007, the hot games for Q4. Shouldn't be any surprises in store, but it's good to have this one link in the chain of quarterly reports! Goodness continued from the previous...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2008 6:56 PM

Gaming year 2007

Another year of games is soon over. Gaming year 2006 was good, but I think this one was even better! At least in quality, not necessarily in quantity... Good new games (2006-2007 games) Agricola - This year brought two very...

Posted by Mikko on December 31, 2007 7:18 PM

Shogi and Race for the Galaxy

I met Olli for a quick round of two-player games. Since the ever-friendly postman brought me my Shogi board, that was what we played. Olli has this thing with abstracts: he doesn't really like to play them, because he...

Posted by Mikko on December 18, 2007 7:29 PM

Thursday session: Agriculture again

While waiting for our fellow gamers, we played a three-player game of Race for the Galaxy. This time everybody knew the rules and played fast and we were able to finish the game in just 15 minutes or so....

Posted by Mikko on December 14, 2007 12:26 PM

Thursday session: Race for the Galaxy and Canal Mania

We started the session with Race for the Galaxy. Our game took something like 40 minutes this time, so it's getting faster, perhaps. I went with the novelty goods, as my start cards were bent that way. I got...

Posted by Mikko on November 23, 2007 12:15 PM

Thursday session: Race for the Galaxy

Good games today: three rounds of Race for the Galaxy and one Fairy Tale. That was all we could manage: it's slow going with new players. Our games took 45 minutes, 45 minutes and 30 minutes. Based on that,...

Posted by Mikko on November 8, 2007 8:41 PM

New games in the collection

I got my copy of Race for the Galaxy yesterday. It looks pretty nifty, though the art is perhaps a bit dark. Then again, I suppose it is dark in space... I'm glad the cards are of decent size,...

Posted by Mikko on November 7, 2007 12:07 PM

Back from Helcon!

Another Helcon is gone (well, they're still playing, but I'm already back home) and boy, it was a good one! We started games on the train to Helsinki. Robert managed to get himself to the wrong train (for some reason...

Posted by Mikko on November 4, 2007 12:57 PM

Tom Lehmann

Before, Tom Lehmann simply didn't register on my radar. I'm too young or something for the TimJim Games and Fast Food Franchise to mean anything to me. However, now I take a look at my list of three most-anticipated games...

Posted by Mikko on May 23, 2007 5:20 PM