Universal Head on The Hatchet Job
Apologies for the long break in updates, I’ve been swamped with personal and professional matters, with no time left over for blogging. I did, however, have the honour of being interviewed recently for...
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Found on the blog Hammer and Beyond, this surprising and fascinating insight into the off-hours of screen legend Peter Cushing.
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Wellycon 2012
Last Friday I headed off to Wellington, a quick and hassle-free flight away across the Tasman strait. There I was picked up by a relatively new friend of mine and his son; he’s a boardgamer and...
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Boardgame Reference Sheets Update
Now and then I still get a chance to update old game sheets and create new ones; here are the latest updates on the Universal Head Boardgame Summary Sheets page: Thanks to the help of BattleLore fan...
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Boardgames by the Bay 2012
Last weekend I set off for another weekend of boardgaming, this time to Hamilton for its Boardgames by the Bay event. Unfortunately there is no direct flight from Nelson, so I changed planes at...
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Boardgame Reference Sheets Update for November
Some more updates on the Universal Head Boardgame Summary Sheets page: Betrayal at House on the Hill now has a completely revised, all-in-one game aid booklet that includes a rules summary, a set of...
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Aztlán
My most recent boardgame graphic design job has hit the shelves: Aztlán by Italian publisher Ares Games (BoardgameGeek link). Like my last project of this type, Ninjato, I was lucky enough to be asked...
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Bashing Games Workshop
Games Workshop—the company gamers love to hate. Is it the worldwide success, the relentless corporate mindset, the short-sighted business practices or the eye-watering prices? It’s everything; and yet...
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Happy International Tabletop Day!
Yes folks, it’s the first International Tabletop Day. After the big success of Wil Wheaton’s series of Tabletop videos, in which he gathers his famous-among-pop-culture-geeks friends to play tabletop...
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The Esoteric Order of Gamers
Some gamers may know that I’ve uploaded some 200 rules summary and reference sheets to Boardgamegeek over the last 8 years which have proved very popular, and those sheets were gathered together at...
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