Tuesday update

[mikekn]

Nothing much has happened in the last week. Most of my evenings were spent doing some consulting work - which will be continuing this week as well. I've been fighting with one of the hardware bits, and so far it is winning.

Made it to Philly Gamers and got to play Trans Europa and Metro.

Got to play Unspeakable Words with complexated and gang on Friday. It's a Cthulhu themed word game and was lots of fun :) I'd like to try it again without the optional rules (I think we used all of them at once) and see how the basic game plays.

Saw the Barn's production of Chess which was very good. The people playing Florence and Anatoly were both excellent, but the guy playing Freddie bugged me.

Got my EK History letters out more or less on time, so that project has now officially started.

arieya was over on Sunday, going through my game collection. She is working on a service to provide replacement parts for games, and was taking measurements from a bunch of games I had. When she was done, the games in the dinning room were all neatly stacked on one side:


Speaking of games, just the other day I was wondering if a new reprint of Cosmic Encounter could coming. Well, I just read this announcement from GenCon:

Fantasy Flight Games has acquired the rights to the classic Future Pastimes/Eon games Cosmic Encounter and Borderlands, as well as the "Wheels Within Wheels" game system formerly published as Frank Herbert's Dune. Cosmic Encounter will be published in the summer of 2008. Borderlandswill be published in the summer of 2009. The "Wheels Within Wheels"system will be featured in a new original board game set in FFG's Twilight Imperium universe in late 2008.

Sweet! The return of Borderlands is great news as is a new "gamer" version of CE.

Comments

[greene-man.livejournal.com]

Unspeakable Words sounds like a great game. Have you been to the PAGE meetings Tuesday nights in Glenside?

[mikekn]

Never made it out to a PAGE meeting. Last I heard they were doing mostly role-playing games.

[notshakespeare.livejournal.com]

Yep - board games are an exception.

[greene-man.livejournal.com]

That was truer three years ago. Now it is a mix, at least at the Glenside location.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Whoa! A new edition of Borderlands. Haven't played in a while, but still have the copy I scavenged out of my grandmother's basement.

[mikekn]

Excellent! I have to break out my copy and get a few games in before a new edition shows up. I wonder if they'll include the expansions...

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

I only have the first expansion. I've heard the second one is a good one, though.

[mikekn]

I never played much with the second one, so I can't really say. Sounds like something we need to try then.