First batch of our new arrivals
Are you looking for some popular games like Century: Spice Road, Magic Maze, Fold-It!, Hanamikoji, Las Vegas Big Box (base game + Boulevard expansion)? Get them now from our webstore or through our retailers.
An accidental re-visit of a lost “classic”
An accidental stumble into a video posted by Wilhelmsen to their Facebook page about the port of BREMERHAVEN prompted me to revisit this 2013 classic.
OTK Meetup 6/11/2015–Prodigals Club, Celestia & Mombasa
The first of our Essen gaming Friday saw us took a mix of light, medium and medium-heavy games for a spin…. read on to see what we think of The Prodigals Club, Celestia and this year’s 2nd ranked game in Fairplay and also Alexander Pfister (of Isle of Skye and Broom Service) first foray into medium economic game Mombasa.
Spiel15 – Splotter Fast Food FTW!
This year Splotter’s back with a new title FOOD CHAIN MAGNATE. We’ve yet to get our first session started but here’s a first impression of the game from CK.
Spiel15 – Of Hall 1 & 2 in Day One
A roundup of Day One highlights from Hall 1 & Hall 2 of Essen.
Spiel15 – First impression of Wallace’s SHIPS
BoardgameCafe.net were at Treefrog to check out Wallace’s latest SHIPS and confirm rumors of MOONGHA Invasion in Essen.
OTK Meetup 9/10/2015–Welcome to the Dungeon, Sylla, Broom Service
The Old Town Kopitiam meetup continues this Friday with three more games including the highly rate Broom Service hitting the tables. Find out Heng’s impression of these games.
Spiel15 – SCYTHE, a kickstarter not to be missed?
A new Kickstarter from Stonemaier this coming Oct 13. We’d a first look in Essen. Read on to find out about SCYTHE.
OTK Meetup 2/10/2015–Barony & Roll for the Galaxy
While the BoardgameCafe.net crew is away at Essen for SPIEL 2015, some OTK regulars met up at our previous meetup venue OLD TOWN KOPITIAM Cheras for a night of Barony and Galaxy Rolling…. read on to find out their impressions of these two games.
Essen Spiel 2015 Preview Part 2
So, more games! The gorgeous Celestia from Blam! More stunning work from Blackrock! The brand spanking new Age of Empire… I mean Discovery (Nanti kena sue oi!) Vital’s Gallerist looks beautiful and complicated at the same time. This one’s going to be hot hot hottt Tomorrow’s early morning […]
Essen Spiel 2015 Preview
Hot off the presses! The Essen Spiel press conference that is. 🙂 Here’s the lowdown on this year’s Spiel: “Come and play!” Is this year’s motto for the convention with around 160,000 people expected to walk through the gates. Many have already called it the biggest one ever […]
Winter is coming, let us Retreat to the Kabin
This year, the 5th instalment our signature event the BGC Boardgame Retreat is going to be held at a nice concept resort known as The Kabin. With a blend of the new crop of games from this year’s upcoming Essen Spiel and the wide selection available from the OTK Games Library, you can look forward to a weekend of awesome gaming! Winter is coming this Dec 19 & 20, so let’s retreat to the Kabin for 2-days of intense Euro Board Gaming. Don’t miss this…
OTK Meetup 1/5/2015–Thru the 2 Ages
An evening where we planned to ROLL THROUGH THE AGES ended up with two sessions of THROUGH THE AGES instead. Both (the rare) 1st Edition and (the erroneous) 2nd Edition were in play. Find out the future of THROUGH THE AGES in 2015. This completes a trilogy of gaming sessions that started with Rahdo’s Top Ten Heaviest Games and ended with Vlaada’s Thru the Ages.
OTK Meetup 30/4/2015–Rahdo’s Top Ten Heavy Games Part 2
Boardgamecafe.net Meetup Report @ OTK Cheras 30/4/2015– CLINIC, ALCHEMISTS, MADEIRA By jack208 EXCERPT Continuing from last Fri’s Rahdo’s Top Ten Heavy Games, this week saw us go thru the 2nd batch of games in the list namely CLINIC, KANBAN, ALCHEMISTS and MADEIRA. RAHDO RUNS THROUGH Last week we […]
OTK Meetup 24/4/2015–Rahdo’s Top Ten Heavy Part 1
Follow us as OTK Cheras went thru half of RAHDO RUNS THROUGH’s Top Ten Heaviest Games list in our Friday OTK Boardgame Meetups. For tonight, the list of games to be covered were Agricola, In the Year of the Dragon, Brass, Zhanguo and Vinhos.
OTK Meetup 13/2/2015–Panthalos
After CLINIC’s sessrep, here’s our take on Bernd Eisenstein’s latest game from last Essen PANTHALOS. Dare you anger the Titans from the Underworld of Greek Antiquity?
OTK Meetup 13/2/2015–Clinic
Been awhile since I put in a sessrep. Here’s a lengthy one on CLINIC, the Town Center designer Alban’s most recent game from last Essen. We also did SAMURAI SPIRIT, LA ISLA and PANTHALOS among other games seen in-play tonight at OTK.
BGC Boardgame Retreat – Got Questions?
If this is the first time you heard of our Boardgame Retreat or you have been contemplating attending one of our Retreats, you may have questions that we hope this FAQ would be able to help with
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