I was working with a client recently and they showed me the video below and they wanted to know more about “the pie game.” I’ve seen the video before (a bunch of times) and I was a little embarrassed that I didn’t know WHAT “the pie game” was. So I found out. It’s actually a cake game, called Piece ‘O Cake even though I agree the slices look more like pie — but you can see the clip for yourselves below. The “pie game” starts at 3:27.
We’ve already established that Piece ‘O Cake …
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If you follow me on twitter you may have seen the tweets from certain twitter folks who might be a bit disgruntled that Santa left a very hard to find copy of King of Tokyo under the tree for me. As I pointed out to them – and now to you too – if you look to eBay it’s not super hard to find.
The theme of King of Tokyo is really compelling; each player is an enormous monster causing destruction and mayhem while vying to control Tokyo. Who won’t like …
As you may or may not be aware, January 18 is the worldwide internet “blackout” to protest SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) that is currently in the US House of Representatives and PIPA (Protect IP Act) in the US Senate. These broad and confusing pieces of legislation will change the face of the internet. How? For starters, like sites like YouTube and Facebook — or any site with user generated content — will have to self-police their sites for any copyright infringements. So all those retro-commercial for I’ve posted asking “remember …
Back in the summer of 2009 I wrote an article on one of my FAVORITE dice games: Can’t Stop by Sid Sackson. In this article I mentioned that I got my copy back in 2007 and it wasn’t going to be the easiest game to find — but good news for all, NOW IT IS!
You can scroll down to read my original review, but before that I’d like to rave about it’s new design. The new Gryphon Games version is on the right and the older Face2Face games version is on the left …
This article was written for the Games for Educators December newsletter, you can see it HERE.
Maybe. The Biblical Magi, or Three Kings, were said to have visited Jesus bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh shortly after the reign of “King” Herod the Great, who ruled from 37-4 BC. They are said to have come “from the east” and it’s disputed whether that means that they were Babylonians, Persians or from Yemen, but that’s all basically the same general area when we’re talking about games at that time.
So regardless of …
I swear, one of these years I’ll formalize the way I do my holiday picks article, but like usual TAGIE, ChiTAG and all the follow up work after it have sucked away the last couple weeks. So here I am, a week late posting my “Holiday Picks” article — still that’s better than last year!
Here it is, a list of games which will make great gifts and entertain your family during the holidays and the long winter (and my top picks of the games I reviewed in 2011 plus 2 …
