I had thought November would see a reasonable fall in my unplayed list as I didn’t expect to buy anything new and a trip to Midcon gave an extra opportunity to eat into those Essen releases. Although I didn’t add anything to the collection, Midcon only...

After this year’s Essen haul, I needed some space in the games cupboards to put the new arrivals. Hence, I pulled quite a few out for Ebay and yesterday Jan listed them all for me. There are quite a few really good games in there that I just felt were...

Well, October saw the biggest setback to my aim to get down to fewer than 20 unplayed games by the end of Jun 2010. However, I was fairly restrained in my buying at Essen, bringing back fewer new games than usual and I stuck to my edict of not buying...

Just back from two days at Essen. Fabulous time as always but seemed to spend more time talking than playing games. Rather restrained on the buying front - only 19 additions to the collection which are shown in glorious technicolour below.      

The third game being released by Martin Wallace, this time through Warfrog rather than Treefrog, is Steam Barons which is the first expansion for Mayfair’s Steam. Two maps are included in the game, one covering eastern USA, along with parts of Canada,...