Gnome points us to videos celebrating the 25th anniversary of Warhammer, the miniature game stealing money from the mouths of babes for 25 years now.
The videos were created by The Miniatures Wargaming Union.
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Avalanche Press is shipping a new game on the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921. Red Russia by designer William Sariego uses the Soldier Kings game system to model the conflict between the Reds, the Allied Interventionists, the Siberian Whites, the Southern Whites, and the Northern Whites. As in other games using this system, players must [...]
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The latest offering from war games publisher Victory Point Games covers the first Arab-Israeli war. Israeli Independence is a solitaire card-driven-game playable in about 15 minutes.
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Dirge: Carnage in Crimson is a light action-point based war game from Small Box Games.
You play with six fantasy figures in an all-out brawl. The player with the last figures standing wins.
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The Bakersfield Californian covers strategy war gamers and the people who play them.
The article has a tone that this may be an addiction, one deliberately developed by the publishers who constantly put out supplements that are just slightly better than the last supplements.
A number of local businesses are covered.
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Multiman Publishing is shipping South Mountain, a hex-and-counter game of the Civil War battle known by the same name. The game is part of MultiMan’s the Gamers Regimental Sub-Series.
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The latest video game to CCG making news is Call of Duty, set to become a simultaneous real-time CCG from Upper Deck Entertainment.
Real-time? “During the course of a game, a player might play a card every three seconds until a “pause” card is played… A pause card halts the action and resolves a powerful effect [...]
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The Kentucky Kernel, a student-run publication at the University of Kentucky, recently ran a story on the games club. Sure it had the expected references to Mountain Dew, Cheetos, and “stereotypical gamer physique,” but it was also among the nicest social assessments of dedicated gamers that I’ve seen in a general publication. The article quoted [...]
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Days of Wonder has announced that the long-awaited Memoir ‘44 Campaign Bag will finally be available in June. The Campaign Bag will be a reinforced canvas sack in classic army olive-drab and will accommodate two complete copies of the base Memoir ‘44 game along with all of the available expansions. The bag will also include [...]
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Find Your Game Store is a new site to help you find local game stores in the UK.
It covers specialty tabletop games of all types.
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