7 Wonders: Architects, the new game from Repos Production, will officially release at the Essen 2021. But thanks to Asmodee UK we will be able to offer an in-store exclusive pre-release of the game. The game will be available roughly one week before the online release (exclusively in-store) and I…
After the arrival of LLamaland and Sonic: The Card Game earlier in the week, today we received more new games. Available earlier than expected we have the Terraforming Mars Big Box and the 3D Tiles Box in stock. Both offer beautiful 3D Tiles to upgrade your copy of Terraforming Mars,…
Repos Productions has announced 7 Wonders Architects, a new game in the 7 Wonders universe: Construct a wonder so magnificent, it will leave your mark on history! In 7 Wonders Architects, build one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world and gain as many victory points as possible to…
We are getting closer to the business end of the board game year and the pre-orders for the new releases are coming in. A lot slower than in the last few years, but there are still some very good board games getting announced. Here are a few we added in…
There are two big awards for board games in Germany: the Spiel des Jahres, awarded by a jury (a bit like the Oscars for movies) and the Deutscher Spielepreis, organised by Friedrich Merz Verlag (organisers of the Essen convention) and voted on by the public. MicroMacro has won the Spiel…
Last week, Shut Up & Sit Down posted a glowing double review of Blitzkrieg! and the upcoming Caesar!. Both board games are designed by Paolo Mori and smaller two-player games. But SU&SD are much better at explaining what these two games are all about: https://youtu.be/7DexnY4z23I Blitzkrieg! is back in stock…
After weeks of complaining that not enough new releases are arriving, I can't complain about next week. A total of ten new board games and expansions have been confirmed so far. Without further ado, here are the nine: Most of these will arrive on Tuesday or Wednesday. Only the Nebula…
Jamaica is a great family game about pirates racing around the island of Jamaica. It was released back in 2007 and has seen regular reprints since then. Now Space Cowboys is releasing a new 2nd Edition of the game. Pirates, get ready for the race of the century!In February 1678,…
Please accept my apologies for the long radio silence on our blog site. But now with the schools starting again, everything goes back to normal at the shop and we are preparing for a hopefully busy autumn. September is normally the start of the busy time with a wave of…
There is a lot of talk at the moment in the board game industry about a dramatic increase in the shipping cost to get games from China to Europe or the US. Based on this Asmodee UK has already changed their discount structure for their retail customers and one European…
