Well, I'm back from BGG.con and I had a great time meeting up with BGB listeners to play the latest Essen titles. I'm editing at least one podcast of some interviews I took from some of the vendors there. I might do a separate one about the titles I played (about thirty games) or roll it all together into one. We shall see. I expect to get a moment to put the show(s) out this weekend since it's another lovely four-day weekend.

As we go into the Christmas season, feel free to visit us here at BGB when you are shopping at Amazon or MeeplePeople.com. Although we don't ask for donations at BGB (I always listeners to become a BGG Patron or BGN subscriber instead since those terrific folks make a living doing this kind of thing), I certainly appreciate those that use the Amazon search box to find the items you are ordering and when you make a purchase, we get a tiny little cut (doesn't affect your price). Same thing for Meeple People.com - we get a small slice that doesn't increase your price. So, if you're shopping on those sites, I humbly request you click through BGB to help support the show. A very big thanks to those that already have (since that reminded me to mention it, too).

Lastly, I wanted to mention that, as expected, the terrific Ryan and Chad of GameInk.net did indeed have the RA shirt at BGG.con and if you want one, you'd better order NOW. They were moving nicely there and they had people contact them ahead of time to put in their requests for one to be held. If you want a copy of this awesome limited print-run item, browse on over to GameInk.net right away (and check out their other cool stuff, too - I bought a couple more shirts myself at BGG.con). They make terrific presents.

Happy Thanksgiving to all US folks observing it and happy holidays to everyone else.

Not making a big announcement on BGG for this one because I know there are a couple of friends who already want it. But, if you read BGB regularly, you are in on the offer.

I've decided to part ways with my Risk: Black Ops. I'm reviewing a copy of the same game a friend bought so this shrinkwrapped Risk: Black Ops can go to someone who will love it more than I will. Drop me an e-mail with an offer if you are interested. I can deliver to BGG.con if necessary.

E-mail to: Sheylon AT GMAIL DOT COM. Send it soon! No formal process (not a bid or whatever) - I'll just look at the offers and if one looks good - you got it.

Boardgame Babylon is back with a new session review show covering a few hot new games: Dominion, Ticket to Ride: The Dice Expansion, and Hero: Immortal King.

BGG.con is just a week away and I'm going encourage BGB listeners to do two things:

1. Please check out my BGG List of games I'm keen to play at the convention. If you'd like to join me, please comment and I'll try to seek you out for the game in question. The list is nearly forty-strong so hopefully every listener in attendance can find one that we can play together. Here's the link: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/36547
2. The great guys of GameInk.net are producing their fabulous RA t-shirt ("17"), which lost out on their two contests for top shirts but apparently they can be won over with enthusiasm and the promise of nearly two dozen BGB listeners agreeing to buy shirts at the show. However, the shirt is in short supply so get to their booth early and get your awesome "17" shirt. You'll be the best dressed person at the con. Note: The above may not be the final design - I think Ryan said it might be in black instead.

Hope to see many of you in Dallas next week. Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Show Notes

Games Mentioned

Dominion   Ticket to Ride: The Dice Expansion   Race for the Galaxy

Hero: Immortal King (three different scenarios below)

The Lair of the Lich   Infernal Forge   Den of Dementia

Other Links

Days of Wonder   Asmodee   GameInk.net

Barely under the wire, here is a Halloween-themed Boardgame Babylon with some new games you will want to add to your Halloween gaming this weekend. There's a fun dice-rolling game, a nice Trick(or Treat) taking game and a Lovecraftian semi-cooperative game to amuse the Twilight Creations fans. I promise - no scare tactics, ghoulish wailing or silly voices (well, okay - maybe just a little...). Mostly though, it's just a few light reviews and some comments about the games hitting the table at our Halloween parties.

And, no - you need not have enjoyed Igor to enjoy the R&R games based on it. ;)

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon. Happy Halloween!

Show Notes

Games mentioned:

Igor: The Monster Making Game   Igor: The Life of the Party

Innsmouth Escape   Bump In The Night   Mmm...Brains

Fearsome Floors   Fury of Dracula   Gravediggers   Vampire (Knizia)

Zombies!!!   Zombietown

Additional Links

R&R Games   Twilight Creations   Fantasy Flight Games

Okay - thanks to all of the listeners who expressed an interest in hearing this show even though the 2008 International Gamer Awards. I'm going to just post it up here with the warnings that:

1. There are sound quality issues
2. This show IS NOT edited properly so it's a little longer than it would be if I spent some time tightening it up.

Hope this one is still enjoyable even though the awards were announced last week.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Show Notes

International Gamer Awards  

Boardgame Babylon is back with a new session review show featuring some games I got to play earlier this year and a very cool book that contains "The 15 Greatest Board Games in the World". This last item is a wonderful offering available in most stores (and even from the Amazon link over on the left there…) that we've enjoyed taking with us on vacation this summer.

Also, you might want to check out my BGG "Clear the Shelves" Auction. I've put up fifty games from my collection that could use new homes. Check it out here: BGG's Clear the Shelves Auction.

More BGB is on the way, including a discussion of the IGA awards, another session review show and hopefully two new In Depth shows with nice special guests.

And, yes – that is one of Meeple People.com's new plush Meeples. I used him to intimidate Alaric's followers in our recent Carcassonne game (funny how the Xbox version inspired us to play the regular one – not complaining!) I feel sure his awesome power led to my two-point victory.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon. Your feedback is greatly appreciated! Please send your comments, thoughts, and complaints to: sheylon at gmail.com.

Show Notes

Games Mentioned

Age of Gods   Octego   GIPF

Elric   Dark Emperor   Sorceror

Other Links

Willow Tree Games (sorry, I call it Willow Games on the podcast)   Asmodee Editions

It's been a great summer of gaming and I just returned from a trip up to West Coast MeepleFest were fun was had by all. I wasn't able to take Christina with me this year but I still managed to have a nice time even as I missed having her there by my side. Although I didn't record any volumes of Boardgame Babylon, I do appear on the latest Garrett's Games and Geekiness alongside Aldie, Paul Tevis and Ric Bretschneider (and Doug and Shelly, of course).

Additionally, I wrote up my session reports from the convention and they ended up being so long that I decided against reproducing them here. Instead, I shoved them on a Geeklist here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/33755

(see the pic for a shot of one of the weekend's silliest moments - me mercilessly defeating newbies in the traditional Loopin' Louie tournament - photo courtesy of Greg Zamira)

I'm looking ahead to the next couple of conventions. Gateway 2008 is at the end of the month and it should be a great time. Again, I'm demonstrating games on Friday and Saturday - including new games from Z-Man, Days of Wonder, Rio Grande, Fantasy Flight, and a few other companies. Come out and join us in Southern California for the best convention series around.

The next Boardgame Babylon is a Session Review show with comments on Age of Gods, Octego, and a great book of games called "The 15 Greatest Board Games In the World!"

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon. We're hitting huge numbers lately and it is much appreciated! Please share with me any feedback you might have - it's always a pleasure to receive your notes. Just click the "Connect" button to send me your comments.

Okay, here is part 2 of "Agricola: In depth" - a conversation with local SoCal Agricoholics Stephanie Kelleher and Chris Johnson. Both were nice enough to join me for a discussion about the game, the strategies, some favorite cards and whether the game will remain so highly rated as more people get the chance to play it.

This podcast is sponsored by the wonderful folks at Gateplay.com. Check them out for great games at terrific prices and free shipping with a $100 order. A terrific site for gamers new to the hobby as well as the full initiated.

A couple of additional items:

Strategicon is raising their rates for the next convention, Gateway 2008, but you can still get the old convention rate through July 31st - including your BGG Patron or Boardgamenews.com Subscriber discount. Check it out now and join us for this great convention on the Labor Day Weekend.

GameInk.net is a great place to buy gamer shirts that don't look too much like gamer shirts (that's a good thing). They had the good taste to design an utterly wonderful RA shirt but they cannot seem to get enough votes to have it be one of their latest prints. Luckily, they saw my attempts to shamelessly get people to vote for the RA shirt by offering to buy extras to give away at BGG.con and now we're working on trying to get it printed if enough people will contact me and commit to purchasing one. So, if you are interested - please send me an e-mail and let me know.

Thanks again for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

The In depth series is back with a bang...or perhaps I should say with a plow? This is the first part of Agricola: In depth, a couple of shows focusing specifically on the hot new game that we US gamers are anxiously waiting on - Agricola. This Uwe Rosenberg release has been much talked-about (and the Hottest Game on BGG.com) ever since its Essen 2007 debut and German copies haven't been very common in the US due to the difficulty in pasting up a copy for play.

But the game is just about to debut here in the US in an English language version and so I don't feel too badly about releasing a show with more information and details about the history of the game. I'm honored to have the US publisher of Agricola, Zev Shlasinger of Z-Man Games, join me on the mic to talk a little more about the game, the hype and the US release.

Part 2, featuring a conversation with LA-based Agricoholics Stephanie Kelleher and Chris Johnson talking with me about basic gameplay, strategy, a preview of the Z Deck, and the tournament we ran at Gamex 2008, will be out soon.

Please send your feedback to the connect link on the side or post them on the comments section.

This episode is sponsored by Gateplay.com - check them out for your pre-order of Agricola. I certainly recommend pre-ordering Agricola from your favorite retailer if you want to make sure you get a copy of this print run with the Z Deck. 

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Show Notes

Games mentioned

Agricola   Race for the Galaxy   Bohnanza   Mamma Mia

Klunker   Caylus   Scepter of Zavandor   End of the Triumvirate

Stone Age   Pillars of the Earth

Other Links

Z-Man Games   Lookout Games   Uwe Rosenberg   Spiel Des Jahres

Gateplay.com

As has become tradition around here, my lovely wife Christina (my nearly silent co-host on the last BGB) again made me a birthday cake themed to a favorite game of mine. This year, she tackled Pandemic - the hot new game from designer Matt Leacock and Z-Man Games. In one evening, she decorated both this and a heavily detailed seaside-themed cake for my daughter (meaning she stayed up late into the night making sure the red travel lines were accurate...mostly!)

The cake also tasted great. You'll notice that the Scientist is out this round (she ran out of white) and the Researcher was made of Tootsie Roll (and was the first pawn eaten). Despite all the detail, Christina was excited to do this one since Pandemic is one of her favorite games. It was another nice reminder that I am one lucky guy.

Watch next week for the first of two "Agricola: In depth" shows and I'll even be tackling Pandemic soon on a show devoted to co-op and semi-co-op games.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

It's been ages since I did a session review show talking about just a handful of games. Hey, I had to keep doing all those series, right? You'd rather hear from Reiner Knizia, Jay Tummelson, Zev Shlasinger, Steve Jackson, Tom Jolly and good folks like that anyway, right?

Apparently some people miss these shows so here is a new show talking about some great new games that we've enjoyed in recent months. A second show like this will be coming soon about Cutthroat Caverns, Age of Gods and Innsmouth Escape.

But before that, you can expect another game in the "In depth" series. "Agricola: In depth" is coming and quite soon! The first part of this two-parter should be out next week and the second part will follow shortly after that - all just in time to whip up the hype on the eve of the game's (finally!) release in the US.

Lastly, I'll note that my dear wife Christina joined me on this show just because she was sitting nearby when I was going to record. Her comments are light (she made me edit out a section) but I sure enjoyed having her around for the show because it's ages since I recorded a solo show.

Thanks again for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Show Notes

Games mentioned

Ticket To Ride: The Card Game   Say Anything   Pizza Box Baseball

Keltis   Lost Cities   Drive (Crazy Chicken)   Wits & Wagers

Apples to Apples   Wer War's

Other Links

Northstar Games  

Hello from Gamex 2008. The con has got off to a great start on Friday with a big crowd of board gamers filling into the open gaming area and the early tournaments. I've decided to send some dispatches from the convention floor since we've got wi-fi in the hotel. I just love wi-fi.

Zev Shlasinger, Gamex 2008's Guest of Honor, arrived today and was perhaps a bit surprised to find the L.A. weather worse than that he'd been experiencing back in New York. This week in L.A. has been bizarre with 100F weather quickly turning into bizarre, windy and somewhat rainy conditions marked by a touchdown of a tornado and many funnel clouds. We're not accustomed to that kind of thing here in Los Angeles where the mantra is 'sunny and mild'.

But off to the gaming: I started the evening by playing a game that I will be showing off this weekend - a 10-inning nailbiter game of Pizza Box Baseball played against my buddy (and occasional BGB co-host) Mason Rourman. Mason is NOT a baseball fan and was fussy about the perceived lightness of the game (we played the basic game since we were learning). As the game progressed and I made note of where the game expands with the full rules, I could envision how much I would enjoy it with the full complement of rules. I can hardly wait to show it off at the demo tables tomorrow. Although the game is a little heavier than Harry's Grand Slam Baseball (a Burgess Family Favorite), I think it will go over well with Christina and Alaric.

At 6:00 PM, I ran the big Pandemic tournament. How do you run a Pandemic tournament, you might ask? Well, you can hear more about that in an upcoming Boardgame Babylon. I came up with a concept I liked, put it to Zev and Matt Leacock (Pandemic's designer) and they both thought it was a good idea. And it went off quite well - we had a shortage of Pandemic games but the players had a good time even though nobody won the tournament! Admittedly, we set the bar high but Pandemic is one of those games where you often have just as much fun losing as you do winning.

After this, I went over with Strategicon co-owner Mark Hyman and played Stone Age with two other fellows. This is my sixth or seventh play of this agreeable game from "Michael Tumelhofer" and I have a pretty straight strategy down now after winning my last three games. However, Mark managed a little beginner's luck and edged my buildings-plus-buildings-bonus strategy with all ten workers, every worker bonus and a lot of cultural cards. After one more Pandemic and a lot of rules review, plus some good chats with convention friends and Zev, I hit the sack. A more social day than a game playing day but that's okay - conventions are for reconnecting with old friends and new, too, not just games.

April has been both a quiet month for gaming and a busy one. Not a lot of big events but I've managed to slip in some game events among the busy work and family life schedule. BGB v52 - a session review show about some recent games and a very cool gaming book - should be out shortly but at the moment, I'd like to fill you in on a couple of cool things (and delay getting around to working on my screenplay tonight - hmm...is that the only motivation for this post?)

1. Z-MAN is coming to Gamex 2008 - The Z-man himself, Zev Shlasinger is the Guest of Honor for the upcoming Strategicon convention over the Memorial Day Weekend, Gamex 2008. This means Gamex 2008 will host the US debut of Uwe Rosenberg's instant classic, Agricola (with a tournament to boot), as well as a Z-man Marathon Tournament, and a unique tournament experience for Matt Leacock's awesome new Pandemic (which I'll talk about on BGB v52). You can expect a great time over the weekend and to hear the Q&A session with Zev on Boardgame Babylon sometime later (and, hopefully, at least one more podcast recorded there...)
2. Demos at Gamex 2008 - We have an awesome lineup of demos at Gamex planned for attendees. My crack team of Boardgame Babylon co-hosts and I will show con attendees some of the latest and hottest games around from Z-Man (of course - Zev will be showing them, too), Rio Grande, Days of Wonder, Fantasy Flight, Twilight Creations, On the Line Games, Smirk and Dagger, and many more.
3. Buy from Thoughthammer tomorrow! - In celebration of Earth Day, the wonderful folks at Thoughthammer.com are donating a portion of proceeds to the Rocky Mountain Institute. How cool is that? Alfredo and gang are already one of the best places online to get the latest games (and they've added Haba to their line recently) and if you order tomorrow, you also get to celebrate Earth Day in style. Need ideas for $125 order? How about: Galaxy Trucker, Stone Age, Tribune, Pandemic and Agricola? Can't go wrong there!
4. Exciting new stuff from Days of Wonder - I'll chat more on the next show but I'm very excited about the new stuff coming out of those DoW folks recently. The best news is that the story that broke earlier this year about a Shadows Over Camelot expansion (how did that get out of the Cone of Silence?) is true: Merlin's Company is on the way to liven up a game some say they solved. More can be found at the place where you are supposed to go for your news. But they also are releasing the long awaited Memoir '44 carrying case! Now, if they can just repackage it for BattleLore, I'll be cheering, too.

Okay, enough procrastination. Back to the Script Frenzy.

Sorry for the delays in getting this show out but at least it is finally here. Orccon 2007 (held over the President's Day Weekend) featured legendary game designer Steve Jackson as the Guest of Honor. Steve is, of course, famous for so many games that it's pointless to list them. Okay, I will list the best and most famous but this is just a drop in the bucket.

Car Wars   Illuminati   Ogre   Munchkin   GURPS (best RPG ever)

Steve was kind enough to answer questions from the audience as well as those from my co-moderator Paul Tevis (who handled the RPG side of things) and me.

The show starts out with Steve giving an overview of upcoming Steve Jackson Games products before taking questions. Although there is some discussion of RPGs (which we don't normally cover on Boardgame Babylon), there is also a lot of good material from the very witty Mr. Jackson who is certainly well-aware that we are recording for the podcast and he does what he can to give listeners extra audio cues about the proceedings - to amusing effect.

Thanks again for listening to Boardgame Babylon. A new session review show is coming soon.

Show Notes:

Steve Jackson Games  Have Games Will Travel   David Brin   Tribes

Charlie the Unicorn   Unspeakable Vault   Print On Demand  

Boardgame Babylon's special 50th show is a Rectangular Table Discussion with a huge list of special guests:

Reiner Knizia   Martin Wallace   Friedemann Friese   Alan Moon

Uwe Rosenberg   Jay Tummelson   Wolfgang Kramer   Michael Schacht

They each bring their unique perspective to this subject of the current state and the future of the hobby.

Show Notes:

Contest Details   Transcript of the Discussion   Today's Date

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Okay, we're back with the fourth volume in the Ascent and Dissent of the Friendly Online Game Store. In this episode, I speak with the owner of a new FOGS, Gateplay.com. Chris Handy is a game designer, musician and e-commerce expert who has decided to try his hand at the Online Board Game business with the unique spin that he's targeting the new or 'gateway' gamers.

I should note that my daughter has become a fan of Chris' music as CJ. If you have young kids, you will want to check him out. That CD is in heavy rotation along with Gwyndolyn's favorite kid band, Gwendolyn and the GoodTime Gang (also one to check out if you have young ones).

I hope you enjoy this new show in the series. With any luck, we'll have a second BGB this month, too. Keep an ear out for it.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Show Notes

Links:   Gateplay.com   Chris Handy's Designer Page   Simply Fun

Games Mentioned:

Trump: The Game   Linkity   Handy   Plext   Pandemic  

Topeka Board Gamers: Donate to the Boys and Girls Club of Topeka

Best Games of 2007 - as determined by yours truly and my special guest, Aldie from Boardgamegeek.com. We chat for quite awhile about great games from 2007 and a few that weren't so great. There are even a couple of notes about the upcoming Boardgamegeek.CON - get the scoop here!

You'll also want to check out the website of our sponsors for this show:

Gateplay Games   Tanga.com

And here are the full Best Games of 2007 lists for both of us:

Aldie

1. Agricola   2. Race for the Galaxy 3. 1960: Making of a President

4. In the Year of the Dragon   5. Starcraft   6. Galaxy Trucker

7. Age of Empires 3: Age of Discovery 8. Fire and Axe 9. Notre Dame

10. Arkham Horror: The King in Yellow

Honorable Mentions: Thebes

Disappointments: League of Six, Kingsburg, Key Harvest

Eric

1. 1960: Making of a President   2. Agricola   3. Race for the Galaxy

4. Notre Dame   5. Brass   6. In the Year of the Dragon

7. Hamburgum   8. Age of Empires 3: Age of Discovery   9. Amyitis

10. Duel in the Dark

Honorable Mentions: King of Siam, Midgard, Thebes, Vikings, Take It To The Limit, Wurfel Bingo, Key Harvest

Disappointments: Kingsburg, Chicago Poker, Gipsy Kings (edited out)

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon. 

Yes, it's been a while - even since I promised a new show. But rest assured, gentle listener, I am hard at work producing new shows. I've been slogging through the ages-old Rectangular Table Discussion on the Games Workshop line of 80's board games. It's a two-hour show (even after edits) and, frankly, it's a little more off-the-cuff than I care for it to be. We'd had some wine and, well, it's a little breezy. I might still release it and do a follow-up with another guest that has expressed some interest in talking on the subject.

In addition to that, I have shows for all the major BGB series coming up soon - most are recorded and one is planned. The "Best of 2007" show is also on the horizon, with another favorite guest. In fact, that will probably be the next one you hear. Also, I recorded a Q&A session with the Orccon 2008 Guest of Honor, Steve Jackson, with one of my esteemed podcasting colleagues, Paul Tevis of the Have Games Will Travel podcast. I think I have six shows in the can so, you know, they need to come out!

Thanks to everyone who has written in to ask about why BGB has been so quiet lately. The first quarter of 2008 has been rather busy with work, a family emergency and, yes, a bout with bronchitis. But I'm on the mend and setting some time aside to get out some new shows. If nothing appears by next Monday, you are free to harass me again.

Thanks for downloading (and waiting for) Boardgame Babylon.

As it happens, Boardgame Babylon has won the 2007 Board Game Internet Award for Best Podcast/Videocast. I'm deeply honored that the show could win in a field with so many great shows.

Thanks to all the terrific and clearly discerning folks that voted on it and for all the fond wishes of congratulations from listeners. It certainly was a great year for the show and I had a wonderful time being part of it.

Thanks for downloading and listening (and voting for) Boardgame Babylon. A new show with my Best Games of 2007 (and a good guest) is coming up soon.

Happy New Year! Boardgame Babylon is back with a new (okay, it was recorded in August) show in the Ascent and Dissent of the Friendly Online Game Store series.

In this show, Dave Jones from Time Well Spent (that's www.timewellspent.org - not the same thing with .com), joins me to talk about his experience running his successful online game store, his perspective on pricing and FLGSs and a little about the future of game retailing.

I also want to mention that we're just over a month away from Strategicon's next Southern California-based game convention, Orccon. I will be in attendance and hope to see BGB listeners there. For more information on this President's Day Weekend event, check out: www.strategicon.net.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Show Notes

Time Well Spent   Peter Sarrett   Mayfair Games

Merchants of Amsterdam   Haba   Tanga.com

No new podcast yet (should be one up in a day or two) but I did jot down notes of the games I played on my vacation for the holidays from Dec. 22 through New Year's Eve. I expect to play a few more today but this represents a good sized list from a lot of game day events and parties where we got some games in among the holiday festivities.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/27498

Happy New year to all and thanks for listening to Boardgame Babylon.

It's the season of giving and so I want to encourage those of you who haven't done so to please consider becoming a Boardgamegeek.com Sponsor. BGG is truly the center of the online board gaming experience for so many of us and yet it is provided free of charge by some great guys named Scott Alden and Derk Solko. BGG continue to get better and better (unlike much of the software you pay for), while also handling more and more users in the growing hobby.

I've never asked for donations for Boardgame Babylon (although many nice people have inquired) but I do occasionally encourage listeners to support worthwhile charities (as in the Franz-Benno Delonge event) and I certainly encourage everyone to sign up and support BGG now during their membership drive leading up to the year's end. There's only about a week left to help keep our hobby's most valuable online resource alive and active in 2007. Here's the link:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/support.php

Happy Holidays to all!

...Sheylon

A bad cold has severely delayed my annual Last Minute Stocking Stuffer show (at this point, it really is the very last minute) and even so, you'll still hear the frog in my throat. But I wanted to get a chance to recommend both some mini-games that will fit into your stockings as well as some great party games to try out at your holiday parties for Christmas, Kwanzaa, or New Year's Eve. Because you should bring games to those parties! Just bring some games that are friendly to the casual or non-gamers. This show will mention some real winners in that category:

Wits & Wagers   Werewolves of Miller's Hollow   Word Blur

Quelf   Qwirkle   (in case you thought using Q and W games) Gifttrap

And the stocking stuffers:

No Thanks!   6 Nimmt!   Coloretto   Felix: Cat in the Sack

Power Grid Expansion   Vexation   Escalation   R-Eco

In addition to the roundup of great party games and smallish stocking stuffers, I also interview Dominic Crapuchettes from Northstar Games - who provides us with an exciting announcement about their plans in 2008.

Thanks to all listeners for downloading and hearing the show this year. Happy Holidays to all!

There may be one more show before the year ends but who knows once the holidays start in earnest.

Additional Links:

Gifttrap's Home   Northstar Games   Wiggity Bang   Mindware Online

Okay, here's part two of the BGG.CON Wrap-Up Show. My voice is dying due to illness so I just added in brief introductions to the various interviews with Kevin Wilson, Mark Simonich, Zev Schlasinger, Simon Hunt, Chad Ellis, and even a little shout out from BGG.CON Guest of Honor, Friedemann Friese.

I'll be back later this month with a show about more of the Essen titles I played like Filou, Cuba, Brass, In the Year of the Dragon, Hamburgum, Patrician, and Gipsy King.

The next show is the holiday one - where I'll talk about some great stocking stuffers and some suggested party games to break out for your big parties throughout the season.

Okay, here's part two of the BGG.CON Wrap-Up Show. My voice is dying due to illness so I just added in brief introductions to the various interviews with Kevin Wilson, Mark Simonich, Zev Schlasinger, Simon Hunt, Chad Ellis, and even a little shout out from BGG.CON Guest of Honor, Friedemann Friese.

I'll be back later this month with a show about more of the Essen titles I played like Filou, Cuba, Brass, In the Year of the Dragon, Hamburgum, Patrician, and Gipsy King.

The next show is the holiday one - where I'll talk about some great stocking stuffers and some suggested party games to break out for your big parties throughout the season.

And for a little glimpse of the Match Game hosted by Peter Sarrett, take a look here:

http://www.vimeo.com/419338

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.