The Italian gaming clubs Associazione Ludica Apuana (A.L.A.) and WASP – Wargame Spezia, in collaboration with Ares Games, will run next Sunday, September 13th, “The Guadalcanal Campaign” WW2 Wings of Glory event, in Massa (Northern Tuscany, Italy). The event will recreate the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Japanese, fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of …
The reprint of War of the Ring Second Edition and its first expansion, Lords of Middle-earth are now shipping to distributors and soon arriving in stores. Treebeard figure As a special way to celebrate the return on the shelves, until September 30th, 2015 (or until stock lasts), the promotional figure “Treebeard” will be added free of charge to all Lords of Middle-earth’s orders we receive from …
Ares Games announces a license agreement with the Chinese company Planplay to publish the English language edition of Quickpick – Island of Monster Masks, a new game for three to eight players, age 4 and up. The English edition will be published simultaneously with the Chinese edition, and will be released at Essen Spiel 2015 (October, 5-11th). Quickpick: an easy, funny and original game for players …
Dino Race is one of the three finalists in the Vuoden Peli 2015 (Finnish Game of the Year) awards, in the Children’s game category. The other finalists in the competition for this category were “Mucca Pazza”and “Cluedo Junior”. Finnish Game of the Year. The Vuoden Peli awards are bestowed by the Finnish Toy Association, which gathers the major national producers, publishers and distributors in the toys’ …
How an “Easy to Develop” Game Idea Turned Out to Be Not So Easy to Develop? Lorenzo Silva, the author of Co-Mix, posted its Design Diary on his blog on BoardGameGeek, and we are sharing it here: “The original idea for what would eventually become Co-Mix came to me around three years ago, as one of the many small personal side-projects I start when I have …
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