Ziggyny's Game Emporium

I've been crashing in Pounder's basement for a little over a week now and we're pretty much set to leave for Lancaster at some s...

Yesterday Don sent out his 'before the con' email for the World Boardgaming Championships and the main thing that concerned me was i...

The World Boardgaming Championships don't start until August 2nd so it feels a little weird to be packing up and leaving today, but it i...

Another year, another Niagara Board Gaming Weekend ! They've changed their website for this year but it has somehow managed to be less i...

I don't know if it's fair to call something a vacation when realistically I'm just going to be playing games all day in New Brun...

I want to make Andrew sad, so here's what went on for me this weekend... I played a bunch of games, some new, some I knew before. In p...

This weekend is CastleCon , a little board game convention held out in Oshawa. I went last year for 2 days and we drove in each day. It'...

Another year, another WBC. Here's the list of games I played over the course of the week: A Few Acres of Snow - 4 Innovation - 4 Cou...

Sunday, Sunday, Someday. Sunday is a pretty slow day at WBC. A couple of finals and a couple of very short events. (Including Attack Sub, wh...

Saturday at WBC is a day mostly for semifinals and finals, or for more compact events. They run continuous tournaments for some of the more ...

Friday morning brought the Le Havre final at the stupidly early hour of 9am. One advantage of being sick all week is I'd gotten plenty o...

It turns out the Lancaster Host has a thermostat in the hotel room which implies you have the ability to set the temperature that you want f...

Wednesday is the first real meat and potatoes day of WBC. Tuesday has the auction and earlier days tend to have fewer events for the early a...

Tuesday is a big day for some people at WBC. The morning and afternoon are devoid of events in order to run the big auction and auction stor...

Monday had the A Few Acres of Snow demo at 11am as the first thing on my agenda. I didn't want to sleep through it, so I set the alarm i...

Sunday starts off with Through The Ages at noon. All of last week I'd been going to bed around 9pm, so Saturday night I ended up going t...