Board Games

This is a really good overview of the Rivals of Catan (the Settlers of Catan card game).

Say Goodbye to Heroscape -

Hasbro’ Wizards of the Coast division has pulled the plug on Heroscape. They will instead “focus our business efforts on our core brands” aka Magic and D&D.

The last expansion for Heroscape, Moltenclaw’s Invasion, is scheduled for release later this month.

The Adventurers

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My friend and former co-worker, Brenda Brathwaite, is an amazing game designer. She was working in video games when they were still done in 2D with little in the way of graphics. These days she's apparently been doing some amazing things with experimental board game design. Read this article from the Escapist. It covers it all better than I can (and since they already did it, it saves me a lot of time).