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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 29 2017, @04:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the get-your-game-on dept.

Last weekend, we strapped on our most comfortable walking shoes, checked our gaming wishlist twice, and jumped headlong into the self-proclaimed "best four days of gaming"—the annual Gen Con tabletop gaming convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. This year's 50th-anniversary show was extra special: turnstile attendance for an estimated 60,000 con-goers reached a record-breaking 209,000, and for the first year ever, the con sold out well before the doors opened on Thursday.

With approximately 500 exhibitors, over 19,000 ticketed events, and entire convention halls and stadiums filled to capacity with board games, roleplaying games, miniatures games, and everything in between, Gen Con is a lot to take in. We couldn't get to all of it, but we skipped sleep, meals, and general mental well-being to bring you what we see as the best of the show.

Below are the 20 board games we think you should be paying attention to going into the last few months of the year (cube-pushing Eurogame fans will want to tune in again in late October when we hit the giant Spieltage fair in Essen, Germany). Most of the games below will be coming out over the next several weeks and months, but because of the vagaries inherent in board game releases, exact dates are hard to pin down. Your best bet is to head to your local retailer, boardgameprices.com, or Amazon and put in a preorder for anything that catches your eye. And if you missed it, be sure to check out our massive photo gallery of the show.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/08/the-best-new-board-games-from-gen-con-2017/


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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:56AM (7 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:56AM (#560678) Journal

    My comment, is no comment. Until I can mod comments, comments mean nothing to me. It is not even grinding to post "no comment" if I cannot mod the comments that my comment spawns! Oh, the huge manatee, and the little buzzard bird. Aristarchus out.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:28AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:28AM (#560701)

    While this may be off topic it's a serious allegation leveled at the people who run SN. Please do respond.

    Was aris really deprived of his modding privilege? Is there a policy?

    I believe SN was founded because we got tired of the BS at the old place. I don't expect to see arbitrary shit here.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:50AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:50AM (#560711)

      Policy: https://soylentnews.org/faq.pl?op=moderation#spam [soylentnews.org]

      Admission of guilt by aristarchus: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=21305 [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:55AM (3 children)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:55AM (#560714) Journal

        Evidently someone does not understand civil disobedience. DeathMonkey went here before me.
        As did Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., and Henry Thoreau. We are in good company. And we point out the alt-right pseudo-libertarian bias of SoylentNews, and we will not be silenced!!! Or something like that. OK?

        • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @08:05AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @08:05AM (#560716)

          Evidently someone does not understand civil disobedience.

          Yes. And that someone is you.

          • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @08:12AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @08:12AM (#560719)

            Oh poor aristarchus! He just cannot understand that no one on SN really is in favor of free speech. And he is a jerk. A troll. Someone who keeps questioning everything that everyone says, in such a way as to make them appear to be idiots. I blame khallow for this. And Socrates. It is about time.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @03:48PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @03:48PM (#560857)

          Ghandi - dead.
          MLK Junior - dead.
          Henry Thorequ - dead.
          Aristarchus - also dead. How about you STFU, lie down, and let us all have some peace?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:54AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:54AM (#560713)

      > Was aris really deprived of his modding privilege? Is there a policy?

      Yes, and yes. The policy [soylentnews.org] is that abusing spam mods bans you from modding for one month. aristarchus admitted to abusing it in a reply to a post that he modded as spam, trolling for mod-ban. The only arbitrary shit in this particular case is being produced by aristarchus, which is a shame. I rather liked his in-character posts :/