Day: 7 April 2009

Nipped into Shire Games on Saturday as I was collecting Catherine from Keele for the Easter break and had also agreed to pick up a copy of Diamonds Club for Nige. Naturally, I had a good look around and three new games found their way into my collection this time.

First up was Small World, a revamped version of Philippe Keyaerts’ Vinci, which looks really nice – hardly surprising as it is published by Days of Wonder. Hopefully, we’ll get to play this on Good Friday. The second game was Finito, another in Schmidt Spiele’s excellent Easy Play line. This is another multi-player puzzle game in the same vein as Take It Easy and High Score (Wurfel Bingo) that takes about 20 minutes so is ideally suited to finish off an evening. The third was Islas Canarias by Leo Colovini, whose games are usually quite mind-burning although this looks to be on the lighter side. Another game that plays with up to five people so could get its first appearance on Friday.

This site has been deathly quiet for a while as I seem to have got out of the habit of posting stuff. A lack of inspiration on my part and hardly any comments back hasn’t helped, but I’m going to try and do a bit better. In all likelihood, these are likely to be whatever comes to mind when I decide to start tapping at the keyboard so don’t expect any deep and meaningful prose (…when was it ever?..) Hopefully, some of it will make sense and even be vaguely informative / interesting. Comments are always welcome but, due to the abundance of comment spam I still get – now approaching 500,000 since I installed the Akismet spam filter – these have to be approved by me before appearing on the site. Right, first piece of game-related stuff coming up.