And second is my guest appearance on the Cult Classic Callback podcast, where we watched the film and picked it apart. I think I had a fonder reaction than Aaron and Linsae did. @boardsalive.bsky.social boardsalivepodcast.com/2023/09/05/c...

Cult Classic Callback – The Transformers: The Movie with Eric Summerer

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The first is my narration of Flint Dille's memoir The Gamesmaster. Flint was instrumental in the direction of Transformers and G.I. Joe during those early days, and discusses the challenges of killing off an entire line of toys to make room for the new ones. www.audible.com/pd/The-Games...

So, this weekend sees The Transformers: The Movie hitting theaters for its 40th anniversary (saw it last night, I was gleefully chair dancing to Dare to Be Stupid during the Junkion scene). Thought I'd bring up two projects of mine that relate to this momentous occasion...

Transformers G1 Starscream Falls

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We tried out Gunsen The Battle for Toshi Ranbo this week It's the latest from @officedoggames.bsky.social It's an area control engine builder where you're racing to get 7 achievements But each clan is fairly different, so you don't know what other players can do Everyone really liked it!

Episode 282 is here and Scott is back We review Thunder Road: Ignition by @restorationgames.bsky.social, Reforest, Moon Colony Bloodbath, and Bomb Busters Plus we talk about how we have introduced games to our kids over the years boardsalivepodcast.com/2026/09/13/e...

Episode 282 with Scott – Thunder Road: Ignition, Reforest, Moon Colony Bloodbath, and Bomb Busters

Episode 282 with Scott – Thunder Road: Ignition, Reforest, Moon Colony Bloodbath, and Bomb Busters Direct Download or Media Player or RSS Feed In our two hundred and eighty-second episode…

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The newest @officedoggames.bsky.social Gunsen The Battle for Toshi Ranbo arrived today Excited to see what Ben Rosset and Matthew O'Malley have cooked up in this one

I taught the guys Thunder Road Ignition this week and it went over really well Scott really enjoyed the amount of chaos due to cars coming back on the track all game long @restorationgames.bsky.social

Benji and I just played back to back games of Innovation by @asmadigames.bsky.social I love this game so much! I took the 1st game, just a base game battle Then he took the 2nd when we threw in the Cities expansion It's just stuff a fun, chaotic card game with wild swings

We tried out Thunder Road Ignition as a family tonight One simple change to this version is no car elimination, they get moved to The Pit Stop and come back next round No more player elimination 1st player to get 2 cars across the finish line wins We had fun with it! @restorationgames.bsky.social

Elsie really wanted to learn Hacienda, so we played it tonight Benji took home the win, but it was very close Elsie was in last, only 4 points behind him and 1 behind me @pandasaurusgames.com

Brendo taught us Discordia tonight It's a unique euro where you're trying to get rid of your workers first You draft dice to trigger actions to build a setup so you can get rid of them faster Interesting, but probably better at 3 than 4 due to down time

I taught the guys Hacienda by Wolfgang Kramer and @boardgame.bsky.social The guys compared it to Through the Desert but with more variety in the pieces you play, so a little more complexity @pandasaurusgames.com

We tried out The Game Makers last night It has some interesting timing vibes and tons of fancy bits I only built one type of board games the whole time and built a machine to help with it and I won by 10 It's a solid one but also nothing mind blowing

We tried out the latest Hisashi Hayashi card game Circadia You connect sets of cards to cash in for scoring cards But the sets you collect need to ascend It's got a nice wrinkle to the flow of it

Episode 280 is here and Elsie makes her first co-host appearance in years We review Moustache by @pandasaurusgames.com and LEGO: NINJAGO - Destiny's Bounty Adventures Plus our time with Neva and Pokemon Pokopia boardsalivepodcast.com/2026/08/02/e...

Episode 280 with Elsie – Moustache, LEGO: NINJAGO – Destiny’s Bounty Adventures, Neva, and Pokemon Pokopia

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Oh hello Gen Con hotness Happy to have this arrive today Can't wait to try out how they have made this even more accessible

We're trying out a 2p game of Hacienda by @pandasaurusgames.com while camping to get a feel for how it all works

Benji and I played a head to head match of Azul with my travel edition It's honestly such a great version of the game Sure, the pieces aren't big chonky starburst candy, but they work great on a windy picnic table Also, he beat me by like 30 points....

We played the first LEGO Ninjago Destiny's Bounty Adventures scenario while camping today It was pretty simple, with some leveling up Benji wasn't super enthused about it Elsie was more into it We will see what the 2nd scenario brings

Quinten is legit a fantastic painter Look at this wild Ork guy he painted!

The new version of Kramer's Hacienda just arrived I'm always up for trying his games @pandasaurusgames.com

I taught the family Moustache today It's a fun team trick taking game where you add new rules each round I really like it, but Lins was not a fan Benji wanted to play again because he didn't win a single round with his partners, haha

The new LEGO game arrived today Just in time for us to play as a family this summer It's a co-op scenario game where you defend your boat and get actual LEGO gear to beat up the enemies better

Benji's soccer team won the Gold Cup at Provincials this morning So proud of my son and his team! They came into the tournament ranked 8th of 8 teams, beat the #1 seed in their first game, and won the cup today in the 10th round of penalty kicks It was quite an amazing week!

This 100% I used to try and shoehorn games in Now I'm much more thoughtful about which games I introduce to which folks

🥧 suzanne 🥧@425suzanne.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I've played thousands of board games... and one important lesson that's really sunk in over the past 5 years is... understand how the game fits (or doesn't fit) the group. Played a game of Torchlit with two different groups and it was fascinating how different the plays were when it fit vs didn't.

This is almost a preview of our review on the next episode haha

BoardGameWire@boardgamewire.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Take Time follows Swiss Gamers Award win by securing Austrian game of the year prize, Hot Streak and Morty Sorty Magic Shop also among category winners: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

We're trying out Revenant, the new worker placement semi coop game set in the Voidfall world So many icons and so much going on But it's pretty solid so far Sort of has a stock element because you gain influence with different houses that score you points at the end of the game

I always love these articles about professional sports teams using board games to connect Excited to watch Canada hopefully move on to the next round today www.nytimes.com/athletic/739...

Mafia, the secret game that has bonded Canada’s World Cup team

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We played our first couple hands of Moustache today at lunch It's a new trick taking team game But teams change each hand And a new rule gets added each round too Excited to play more tomorrow

We continue to enjoy playing All In Predictions at lunch Just enough extra stuff to keep everyone in it to the last hand Really great poker variation