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Star Wars Imperial Assault – count us in!

The announcement from GenCon that we’re most excited for came from Fantasy Flight Games about Star Wars Imperial Assault.
Star Wars Imperial Assault is going to be awesome!

The format of the game is just like another hit board game that the boys and I love playing – Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd Edition.

Descent is set in a fantasy world where a group of heroes ventures out on a series of quests against a mighty overlord. As the campaigns progress, our characters and abilities become more powerful and we enjoy a lot of great strategic battles in dynamic quest maps.

So when we heard we’ll soon be able to battle in a similar manner in the Star Wars universe, how could we not get excited!

August 25, 2014December 20, 2023 Trent 2 Comments family, Star Wars, strategy, theme

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Game Design Merit Badge in action!

I don’t think I’ve anticipated working on a merit badge with as much enthusiasm as I have for the one we began tonight – Game Design!

Boy are these scouts in for a treat!

The Boy Scouts of America added the Game Design merit badge to the mix in March 2013. And I’ve been waiting for the chance to work on it with our scouts ever since.

August 19, 2014August 25, 2014 Trent 2 Comments

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Travel the world with Expedition: Famous Explorers

As we draw to the close of summer, many families are fondly looking back on their fun family vacations. Others

August 13, 2014August 25, 2014 Trent 0 Comments

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King of New York – Can’t Wait!

When we heard the game publisher, iello, was going to make King of New York, it was immediately added to our “games we can’t wait for” list.

The details on the release of King of New York are hush-hush for another week. The big promotion starts next week at GenCon (the largest board game convention in the US). So we’re really looking forward to hearing more soon.

But prior to that, we’ve got something special to share – an exclusive sneak peek at one of the cards: Broadway Star

August 5, 2014August 13, 2014 Trent 2 Comments

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Card Game Preview: Dead Man’s Draw

As you can see in the video, it’s a very quick playing game with simple choices. The most basic choice is simply – do you reveal and play another card or stash what you’ve played so far?

Press your luck too much and you’ll be saying goodbye to the treasure.

And in our experience, everyone in the family enjoys press-your-luck type games.

July 31, 2014August 13, 2014 Trent 0 Comments

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Board Games and Appendix

It’s not often you see a family board game blog with “Appendix” in the title. But our board game family of 6 is now short 1 appendix.

Let’s just say it was quite the memorable 4th of July this year.

But let’s start at the beginning.

July 13, 2014November 11, 2016 Trent 1 Comment

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Best Games of 2013 – The Dice Tower Awards!

The best board games, card games, dice games, family games, and party games of 2013 have now been awarded!

With more than 3,000+ new games published in 2013, there were a ton to choose from.

But the 40+ top board game reviewers around the world were up to the challenge.

July 8, 2014May 3, 2016 Trent 1 Comment

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Which board games to play? Tough choice

This week we’re having a family reunion and I’m in charge of supplying the games.

Of course, supplying board games to play for the occasion isn’t a big surprise. It’s really something I do anyway whenever we get together with family.

The toughest question is which games to take…

July 2, 2014July 13, 2014 Trent 5 Comments