[22 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
Android: Netrunner (Video Review)

Monolithic megacorps and individualistic netrunners collide in a dystopian future. Set in the gritty, cyberpunk future of Android, Android: Netrunner is a two-player Living Card Game that rewards skill, strategy, and just the right amount of calculated risk.

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[20 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
Let’s Level Up – Smash Up Overview

The “shufflebuilding” game Smash Up starts with a simple premise: Take the twenty-card decks of two factions, shuffle them into a forty-card deck, then compete to smash more Bases than your opponents! Each faction brings a different game mechanism into play – pirates move cards, zombies bring cards back from the discard pile, dinosaurs have huge power – and every combination of factions brings a different play experience.

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[19 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
Preorders for VOLUSPA and VAMPIRE EMPIRE Start Monday, May 20

PRESS RELEASE:
Stronghold Games is pleased to announce
Preorders for these 2013 Summer Game Releases:
Völuspá
and
Vampire Empire
will open tomorrow, Monday, May 20 , 2013
at noon Eastern time!

You know that getting new games is not only for the Winter Holiday Season… And we all need to get some new games for our Summer fun, right?
So, go get your lunch (East Coasters) or your breakfast (West Coasters), and come join us tomorrow as we celebrate the first of our 2013 Summer New Game Releases!
PREORDERS for our first 2013 Summer Game Releases will open:
Monday, May 20, 2013
at …

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[19 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
Critical Strikes – E01 – Clowns, Phasers and Orcs!

a new series of micro-reviews for table top games. This episode includes Drum Roll from Artipia Games, Star Trek The Next Generation the Deck Building Game from Bandai and the Lord of the Rings Dice Building Game from Wizkids!

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[19 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
China (Video Review)

China is an abstracted game of political influence in China. Players use cards to place pieces (Houses or Emissaries) into the nine regions on the board. When all house spaces in a region are filled (or at the end of the game), players score for majorities of houses in that region. At game end, players then score for having majorities of emissaries in two adjacent regions. Players also score for having four or more houses in an uninterrupted sequence along one of the roads on the board.

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[18 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
Facts in Five – Quick Hit

Five cards are drawn. Each card contains a “class” and a list of “categories”. A category is selected for each class and the players and five letter tiles are drawn. The players have 5 minutes to come up with an example that begins with each letter for each class/category.

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[17 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
Civility (Video Review)

In Civility you are the leader of a growing city and its people. It is your responsibility to raise an army, strengthen your city through economic and technological growth, and make sure your people are healthy and well educated. War will gain you more power and status, but the pacifist will acquire allies and other important skills. The choice is yours; strategy and planning is key. Will you choose the path of war and manipulation? Or will you be the great leader in Civility?

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[16 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
Critical Preview – Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia (Kickstarter Project)

In Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia, you lead a team of workers (dice) and recruits (cards) to claim ownership of the dystopian world. You will generate commodities, dig tunnels to infiltrate opposing areas, construct markets, collect artifacts, strengthen allegiances, and fulfill secret agendas.

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[16 May 2013 | 2 Comments | ]
Hexica (Video Review)

Hexica is a 2-4 player capture the flag/fleet combat game set in space. At the start of each player’s turn, a flag spawns on a random spot. After three rounds, flags run out and players are forced into combat to steal each others flags. Aside from the specialized six ships that compose each fleet in the game, players also have access to twenty Advanced Systems cards. Each player starts with two of these cards and more can be purchased throughout the game. These cards temporarily affect four aspects of the game: the economy, movement, attack, and defense of each player’s fleet.

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[15 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
Walter Koenig joining Mayfair at Gen Con 2013

Mayfair Games and Gen Con are ecstatic to announce that for the second year in a row, a science fiction legend will be joining us in Mayfair Land at Gen Con 2013!

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[15 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
Shadows Upon Lassadar: Siege at Nem

Siege at Nem is a postcard style wargame for 1 or 2 players lasting 25 minutes and is the second game in the 2nd Lassadar game trilogy.

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[14 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
Scrabble – a quick hit

In this classic word game, players use their seven drawn letter-tiles to form words on the gameboard. Each word laid out earns points based on the commonality of the letters used, with certain board spaces giving bonuses. But a word can only be played if it uses at least one already-played tile or adds to an already-played word. This leads to slightly tactical play, as potential words are rejected because they would give an opponent too much access to the better bonus spaces.

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[14 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
Legends of Andor (A Video Review)

A fun and challenging cooperative fantasy game where players are trying to complete legend objectives while preventing the castle from being overrun by monsters.

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[13 May 2013 | 2 Comments | ]
The Game Pit: We’ll be back soon.

Apologies to all for our recent gap between shows. This is due to an injury to Ronan (he’s on the mend now) but we’ll be back very soon with an episode on all things Kickstarter.

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[13 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
Quinto – quick hit

Players take turns placing their numbered tiles on the board so that their sum, both rank and file, is equal to a multiple of the “multile” number that is selected for that round. Highest score once all the tiles have been placed wins.

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[12 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
PRESS RELEASE: Stronghold Games Announces its 2013 Origins and Gen Con Convention Releases

Stronghold Games is proud to announce its 2013 summer convention season new game releases. The following games will debut at these conventions