2005 Holiday Shopping Guide

This week is the annual Holiday Shopping Guide for 2005.

Categories include kids games, family strategy, 2 player, party, light wargame and advanced strategy. Each game is given a score as well as a brief blurb of our "KidFactor" to explain the appropriateness of the game for different age groups.

Many of the games are not new to 2005, although some of those were new to me this year. As always, the intent is to serve as a guide to those somewhat new to the boardgaming hobby. Reccomends this year include Shadows Over Camelot, Attika, For Sale!, and Heroscape.

Unplugged #37: Take your family to the Rio Grande

This week's column is up...

Unplugged #37: Take your family to the Rio Grande
Several family-friendly titles from Rio Grande Games

I have a capsule review of Rio Grand Games as well as three of their titles:
Around the World in 80 Days,
Attika,
and Cartagena

In addition, I have a more complete review of Cartagena:

Cartagena (Board Game)
It’s just like Candyland, only with Pirates, and not mind-numbingly boring.