The editorial team at the Games Academy wishes all readers, subscribers, followers, fans, customers, partners, press, publishers, authors and players a happy and blessed Christmas. We hope that will be below one or the other Christmas tree and lots of interesting spannnde new board games.

We would also like to thank the many participants in our contest. We have the really fun and we will certainly carry more contests. Congratulations to the two winners: Erwin Gaier aus Otterbach (White Stories) and Armin Weyer from Frankenthal (Black Stories). The prices are expected to go to the winners in the first week of January.

Many thanks to Karin Janner and besides their great charity - Action by the Christmas elves roulette game in which our logo-mascot "Aki" dressed as elves on the number "2" is perpetuated. We have been here more detailed reports about the action and look forward to more great ideas in the board game from the living correctly the social community.

For many avid gamers and game collectors the pleasure of listening to a game not to play. It arises from the beads in the collection is always the question - How can I improve this game and still get good? These and some other questions about board and card upgrade to "pimp" So, we want to go to the bottom of this article. Read more »

The Saxons were the last Prayer Day a holiday. What better way to spend a cold and foggy November day better than with friends and playing? The thought is also the organizers of the Chemnitz game night games and the Chemnitz Museum and organized a full day for small game and big kids. The venue for SPIELENmitVIELEN was the cafeteria of the University of Chemnitz. This gave about 200 games friends from Chemnitz and the surrounding area the opportunity to try out old and new games and have a good time. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that neither admission nor rental fee was due.

The games, which included about 300 games, was provided by the Student Union at Chemnitz University of Chemnitz and the Game Museum. Both classic and new products such as Carabande tower builders were available. The main focus of the collection, however, was to play for children, families and casual gamers. For every taste was catered for. Read more »

It remains the highlight for any board game - a fan: The Game 2011 in Essen, also known under the official title of "International game with comic action." This year, the organizers of the Friedhelm Merz Verlag, another new exhibitors and over 800 new products also have a new - managed to record.

But there are such a big event again and again changes. So you found in the back halls many new publishing houses, even a "distinguished" from the Greek, while others were names from last year represented no more this year. Other publishers, in turn, including ourselves, were encountered at this year fell elsewhere, or less, to see how the example of Queen Games, bigger. Whether these changes represent the impact of an expanding market or purged, is already elsewhere ( here and here ), a lively discussion. Read more »

As every year in early October to gather modellers, creative hobbyists, collectors, and of course players in Leipzig model hobby game. The model-hobby-game is a hobby fair, not a pure game fair lures, but nevertheless already at about 100,000 visitors. The offer extends only to players at half a lobby, which is very large and therefore worth a visit for game fans. We have used the fair this year to test the first news of the fall games with our entire editorial team. Read more »

We have also opened this year again to Nuremberg to explore the latest innovations of this spring. We have put the focus on some specific publishers, so this report does not purport to reflect all the new releases in full. Our own impression is important to us and we pulled it from time to entertain us with the publishers in more detail and to make us a better idea of ​​what they offer.

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Yes / No - puzzles, called Lateral, have a very long game tradition. Will be presented in a "puzzle master" usually slightly paradoxical-sounding crime stories that will have to educate the participants rate the round by skilful questions.

That appears in the since 2004 the number of successful Black Stories issuing Moses-Verlag, 2008 "Black Stories, the game" was published. The "black stories" play the main role in this game, but there are other game elements. On a game plan similar to a wheel of fortune with a knife is rotated. The knife tip indicates the action to be performed next. more »