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First impressions of Greed, Inc.

We finally got to play Greed, Inc.. It's definitely as good as it seemed to be! The theme is fun and works well, and the simple mechanics come together as an interesting game. I got a good taste of...

Posted by Mikko on March 31, 2010 8:39 PM

First impression of Cannes

I'm mostly price insensitive when it comes to board games. I've learnt a long time ago that low price doesn't make a weak game any better. If a game is interesting enough, I'm ready to pay a lot for it....

Posted by Mikko on January 10, 2010 1:22 PM

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

Indonesia

On the Finnish site, a review of Indonesia just came up. Indonesia--> Indonesia is a serious business game from Splotter, the guys behind Antiquity and Roads and Boats, two highly esteemed heavy games. Indonesia is a worthy addition to that...

Posted by Mikko on June 13, 2006 2:30 PM

Storage solutions for Splotter games

I've been happy with my ziploc bag arrangement for Antiquity, but seeing Tommy's solution made me instantly jealous. So, since I was armed with a car yesterday, we drove to the Hong Kong junk paradise on the outskirts of the...

Posted by Mikko on April 14, 2006 7:37 AM

Game weekend at Tommy's, day two

Saturday was a full day of games, though curiously we didn't play as many games as on Friday night. The games were longer, though. Stefu joined us for Saturday, and Tommy's brother Miikka did a guest appearance as well. The...

Posted by Mikko on March 26, 2006 9:19 AM

My favourite designers

Larry Levy had a column in Boardgame News called Rating the designers. He wrote about two different approaches to rating the designers, Knizia approach (counting a sum-based score from ratings given to designer's games) and Seyfarth approach (counting an average)....

Posted by Mikko on January 30, 2006 10:25 AM

Helcon 2005 - Saturday

Saturday was games, games, games. About 50 people participated, playing lots of games. Few bigger ones were scheduled and the Memoir '44 tournament kept on going. Here's my games: Memoir '44--> Indonesia. Splotter was the theme of the day, and...

Posted by Mikko on November 2, 2005 10:43 AM

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