Prepare your wooden legs, your eye patch and the parrot. Jamaica is going to be released in August in North America.

The game was designed by Bruno Cathala, Malcolm Braff and Sébastien Pauchon. You might remember the first name from Mr.Jack.

The game revolves around Henry Morgan an old pirate who has gotten himself to be Governor of Jamaica. Now it’s time to turn Jamaica in the latest retirement haven for pirates.

Mr. Jack is a 2 player game in which one of the players is the Detective and the other is Jack the Ripper.

This medium/light game takes about 40 minutes of play and has a set of very simple yet deep rules.

The goal of the detective is to uncover the identity of Mr. Jack and the goal of Jack is to either escape from the game board or to not be uncovered in the game’s 8 turns.

(more…)

Fantasy Flight will be releasing a new version of the famed Cosmic Encounter this summer.

This new version will include never printed before aliens from Cosmic Encounter Online.

There is a promise of new features and art, and the inclusion of previous expansions.

I’ve often said that many of us have a problem with board games, and that problem is having a table big enough to fit the largest game board you can find (war games not included in this definition, because they can get freaking huge!) in addition to all the other pieces the game needs.

Enter the ultimate DIY project for board game afficionados: the Ultimate gaming table! The table was mainly designed to deal with RPGs but as the designer of the table states it’s suited for any kind of game. The room itself, which used to be a garage, was modified to suit hardcore gamer tastes.

Of course, this ultimate table will be one day obsoleted by huge interactive surfaces where we’ll play our board games while ordering pizza at the same time, maybe in 30 years time when these surfaces aren’t costing an organ.