Returnal was too hard for me. Made be feel old. 😩

One of my favourites. Works very well on BGA too.

The BIG Arcs Interview w/ Cole Wehrle | BGSS ep_007

I feel very mixed about his #boardgames but Cole Wehrle is always a superb podcast guest.
youtu.be/xC0tLj_eeTE

Lyme Regis

Google Maps is terrible for pedestrians outside towns. I use offline OpenStreetMaps in OsmAnd.

DreamHack: Gaming's Glastonbury arrives in Birmingham DreamHack brings 50,000 fans to Birmingham's NEC for the gaming festival's first ever UK edition.

Oh my god, the BBC story is worse. It ticks every box on the fatuous mainstream games coverage list:

Present lazy stereotype of gamers ✅
Shock at global games revenue ✅
Realisation that adults play games ✅
Trite ending of newfound respect ✅

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tawdry is an underused word

Three papers lie on a white table: a typed set of rules for the game Railway Rivals; a sheaf a paper blank apart from a grid of hexagons; and a description of how to draw a map of central Scotland onto the hex-paper.

Can you believe this game won the biggest tabletop award in the world?

Railway Rivals by David Watts (2nd edition, 1978), the first crayon-rail game, where you draw tracks directly on the board. Doesn't look like much, but it's one of only two British games to ever win the Spiel des Jahres (...)

Sirāt is powerful. Should have been best picture.
#movies #film

Yes but you are in the indie games industry. I'm in IT and my LinkedIn feed is hideous. 🙈
On the other hand LinkedIn has got me a few contracts, so I'm not complaining.

Fürstenfeld
1 hour engine builder where you're trying to build production in a confined area and then build over your production with game-winning buildings. It's all about timing.
An interesting market manipulation battle for gamers. FF does this better than anyone.
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Khôra
Exactly what it looks like. You push markers up beige recessed tracks. There is a theme but there might as well not be. Zero player interaction. Basically a solo game. I'm bewildered by the popularity of these games. I probably feel the same way my dad did looking at punk music. 😂
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Uta Frith interview: 'Autism is not a spectrum' | Tes The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

My son was diagnosed at 5 years old as autistic but now I say he is mentally disabled as he has little to nothing in common with people who I see being diagnosed as autistic.

www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

#autism

I haven't read any Dan Simmons, but I've heard good things about Ilium and Olympos. It reimagines the Trojan War with quantum physics and post-human "gods"... 🤷

Long day at Handycon:

Dead of Winter
Emberheart
Prototype
Formaggio
What the Heck?
Prey Another Day
Flip 7

#boardgames

*faction

Quartermaster General Cold War
Designed for 3 factions and it handles kingmaking brilliantly as the 2nd place faction has to give the fraction in last place VPs if they fall over 20 behind. Therefore it becomes a 2:1 fight. Always cagey and competitive.
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Tantony
In an interview with Chris Wray at BGG, David Parlett recommended Tantony as one of his best games for four in partnerships.
It's quite different from any other standard card game I've played. You have to decide whether to give tricks away or keep them.
Highly recommended.
#boardgames

Slay the Spire 2 - Early Access Trailer YouTube video by Mega Crit

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW22...

Chicago & NorthWestern

Each company has to get its track to a home city and then to a western city to get bonus dividends. There's a sprint, driven by players banding up with each other through buying shares, which gives more money to build track.
Cube rails should be way more popular.

#boardgames

We couldn't complete a crisis and were overrun, but we were really close and it was very satisfying overall.

Dead of Winter

I last played this in 2021. At the time I was grumpy about coops and ameritrash, but I've since got over that now that I'm bombarded with 4 hour worker placement point salads.

It was a lot more fun than I remember. Quicker and simpler and super thematic.

#boardgames

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

—G.K. Chesterton

absolutely!

Corvids

You're corvid birds picking through trash. Flip a card with tweezers. Then pick a VP trash card and any feather tokens on it. Steal cards using feathers if another player's bird symbol is uncovered. Each bird has different bonus cards.
Unusual. 🐦‍⬛

#boardgames

The Best Alternatives To Discord 2026 - GreyCoder The Best Alternatives To Discord 2026

greycoder.com/the-best-alt...

Great phone for the money!

Moon Colony Bloodbath

Establish an engine of building cards to protect you from disasters that wipe out your space colony in slow motion. Last player standing wins.

You can see this was created by the designer of Dominion in that it's light but there's plenty of strategy.

#boardgames

Nothing 3a Pro