Various blogs and newspapers are coming up with their lists of the best games of 2014. What do you think?
Paste: The 10 Best Boardgames of 2014
The Independent's 10 best board games
Popular Mechanic's The 15 Best New Board Games of the Year (yes, that Popular Mechanics!?!)
Safe games for holiday work parties, such as Dixit, Coloretto, Fluxx and more.
Top board games for family game nights, such as Qwixx, Nox, Tokaido, Quilt Show, Voodoo Mania, and Trajan.
Video games get the bad rap of too much violence, but if you look hard enough, you can find a few dangerous board games (mostly from the 1960s!).
Ouch?
Don't worry, no one was actually shot in this game of Bang!
Strange, but true facts about board games from BuzzFeed
The physical design of the game can make a difference in the level of enjoyment in playing the game, says Jorge Albor, author of "Getting Physical With Board Games."
What's your favorite game based on the cards/tiles/meeples/pieces? Can the physicality of the game make the game more real?
It's a great time to be a gamer! Sales of board games have gone up 10-20% every year for the past decade and why is easy: “It's because games themselves are getting better.”
Read more at: "We are living in a board game renaissance"
Happy Thanksgiving!
The Spiel des Jahres are the "Oscars" of the game world. Here is a list of the 2014 winners, announced last May (when FlamingoCon still didn't exist, alrighty!?).
Spiel des Jahres 2014
Now, to get a few of these on our tables.... This could double as a holiday wish list. Hmmmm.[Hear this in James Earl Jones' voice in your head]
10 Most Important Board Games in History!!!!!
Really? We link, you decide. Actually, there is some mind-blowing history in this article.
Know someone who loves books as much as games? Introduce them to some of these games: 10 literary board games
If you are reading this, then you (hopefully) aren't in the middle of a game. Since you've got time to kill, here's 60 random facts about board games from Buzzfeed. Maybe you will learn something.