Archive for the ‘Games’ Category

Pumpkin Power… New Halloween Freighter Ticket to Ride Train & Station Set

Monday, October 1st, 2012

Frightful pumpkin trains and spooky stations are scheduled to arrive just in time for Halloween with a new add-on for the Ticket to Ride Series – the Halloween Freighter.

This new set of custom-sculpted trains and stations includes 45 new orange-colored Pumpkin Trains and 3 spooky Halloween Stations. It’s a Halloween treat for Ticket to Ride fans worldwide that can be used as a replacement train set for any of Ticket to Ride game or map collection.

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Ticket to Ride Nordic Countries – coming back again!

Friday, September 28th, 2012

Originally designed only for the Scandinavian market at the request of local distribution partners, smuggled copies of Ticket to Ride Nordic Countries found such a following among Ticket to Ride enthusiasts worldwide that in the fall of 2008 we relented to public demand and released what we’d thought would be a one-time printing of English, French and German copies of the game.

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Memoir ’44 Equipment Pack makes landfall in Europe

Friday, September 28th, 2012

The new Memoir ’44 Equipment Pack has hit the beach! Filling a game box as big as the original with the largest set of figures ever released for the Memoir ’44 game system, the Equipment Pack includes 186 highly detailed plastic figures.

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New Ticket to Ride Map Collection – The Heart of Africa

Monday, September 24th, 2012

New expansion explores the heart of the continent with new Terrain cards that can double the value of your train routes.

Days of Wonder announces the upcoming release of the 3rd volume in the Ticket to Ride Map Collection – The Heart of Africa. Set in the vast wilderness of Africa at the height of its exploration by intrepid explorers, missionaries and adventurers, this new single-sided board map focuses on the central and southern “heart” of the continent displayed in a vertical map format.

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Avast ye Sea Dogs… It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Wednesday, September 19th, 2012

Aye Matey, ye best be makin’ yer way to friendly harbors to fill yer tankards and stock yer larders with gaming provisions, lest ye be keel-hauled with the rest of the scurvy blaggards!

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Mystery of the Abbey is Back

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

Put a little Mystery back in your life! Out of print for several years, Mystery of the Abbey is a whodunit game of deduction and intuition, set in a medieval abbey… and it’s now available once again.

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Darkness Descends over Camelot again

Monday, August 27th, 2012

As dark clouds gather over Brittany once again, it’s whispered that a Traitor may be conspiring against the Round Table to bring down the kingdom. Band together with your allies to dispel these rumours and defeat the Shadows.

Announcing Shadows over Camelot – The Card Game. Based on the award-winning cooperative board game released in 2005, the Card Game follows in the footsteps of the original, as players work together to defend Camelot against rumors swirling about the kingdom.

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Memoir ’44 Equipment Pack makes landfall in North America

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

The new Memoir ’44 Equipment Pack has hit the beach! Filling a game box as big as the original with the largest set of figures ever released for the Memoir ’44 game system the Equipment Pack includes 186 highly detailed plastic figures.

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Aye Matey, Pirate’s Cove returns for more swashbuckling adventure!

Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

Come aboard and sail away to Pirate’s Cove… the legendary hideaway of thieving pirates and cutthroat buccaneers. The tales of those legendary pirates of old who’ve fought and survived these mysterious waters still haunt all those who yearn for a life at sea.

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World Record success with Small World players!

Monday, August 6th, 2012


Congratulations to Ben Miller, Sean McFarlane, Duncan Conner and Christian Olsson of Scotland who battled over the Small World board for 54 hours and 45 minute to break the Guinness World record for the Longest Boardgame Marathon in Scotland last week.  Sean apparently didn’t get enough as he challenged any of the volunteers who witnessed the event to a game of Small World over the weekend! (more…)