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New board game orders and pre-orders

I recently went on a game buying binge… well, more of a game pre-ordering binge. To be fair, I have not been spending my monthly allocated board game budget for a fair while, so this is not anything financially dangerous. It is, however, totally ridiculous. It will take me months to play all of these new games. But between pre-order discounts, item scarcity and exciting new releases, I have managed to order fourteen new board games and expansions!

@willmatthews I heard it on t…

@willmatthews I heard it on the radio today while I was getting ready for work. So funny that I was distracted and almost missed my ride!

Some nutter on BGG has done a …

Some nutter on BGG has done a review of the occupations in #Agricola. Card by card. All of them! 160 cards! – http://bit.ly/V9osn #games

RT @BoardgameNews: Gone Cardbo…

RT @BoardgameNews: Gone Cardboard: Fantasy Flight #Games will carry Planet Steam in the U.S., with an MSRP of $125; no release date given.

RT @TheEconomist: Froth at the…

RT @TheEconomist: Froth at the bottom of the pyramid – Is microfinance going the same way as subprime mortgages? http://ow.ly/15MnxM

Listening to Kind of Bloop – a…

Listening to Kind of Bloop – a chiptune Jazz tribute to Miles Davis – is like waking up into a lucid NES dream – http://kindofbloop.com/

RT @rob_sheridan: @nineinchnai…

RT @rob_sheridan: @nineinchnails is playing “The Downward Spiral” in its entirety, start to finish, at Webster Hall right now. Fucking epic.

A nice summary of new board ga…

A nice summary of new board game items from #GenCon – http://bit.ly/4ErJ5 #games

RT @BoardgameNews: Farm report…

RT @BoardgameNews: Farm report: Uwe Rosenberg on the development of Agricola, a multi-part series – part 1 – http://tr.im/wQgH #games

Bruno Faidutti tells a curious…

Bruno Faidutti tells a curious story about the French online board game community Tric Trac – http://bit.ly/Ph2FE http://bit.ly/Ph2FE #games

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