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Once Upon A Time

Posted by Steve Darlington on Monday, March 1st, 2010

When people ask me what my favorite game is, I don’t have to think very hard. For me, a good game is like a photo album: full of memories. When you look at it, you remember all the people you enjoyed it with, and all those wonderful times you had. Plenty of good games do [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘Rio Grande Games’

Race for the Galaxy: Rebel vs. Imperium

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Race for the Galaxy: Rebel vs. Imperium is the second expansion for Rio Grande Games‘ hit card game of science fiction exploration and conquest. Rebel vs. Imperium comes shortly (about nine months) on the heels of the first expansion, The Gathering Storm. This time you get 46 new game cards; a set of role cards [...]

Ra

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Ra is an auction board game designed by Reiner Knizia and published by Rio Grande Games. It is nominally about proto-dynasties competing to earn rewards from the eponymous sun god so they can rule ancient Nile Valley. This theme is beautifully reinforced by the artwork of Hans Vohwinkel, but when you get down to it, [...]

Bohnanza

Monday, November 30th, 2009

There’s a popular theory that the majority of engineering and cultural development occurs in cold countries because people have nothing else to do when trapped inside for eight months of the year. That may be true but it doesn’t quite explain why the Germans, of all their European brethren, are so damn good at game [...]

Carcassonne: Catapult

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Rio Grande Games has published numerous expansions to the family-friendly strategy board game Carcassonne, but in the latest set the company takes the tile laying game in a new direction. Carcassonne: Catapult adds land tiles, a few other tokens, and an actual catapult-like mechanism to fling said tokens around the game board. Yes, Catapult sends [...]