Starlit Citadel’s Top 10 Board Games for Women

Top 10 Board Games for Women 1. Catan Card Game A card game version of one of the most popular gateway games can’t go wrong now can it? In Catan, payers compete to become the master of medieval Catan . All the same elements that made Settlers of Catan so popular are here – multiple avenues for strategy, low level of direct confrontation and resource and city development. 2 Lost Cities Lost Cities is created by the popular designer Reiner Knizai and is a fast intriguing game with a large dose of luck involved. Players are exploring one of five ‘Lost Cities’ and must carefully manage their hand, discarding unnecessary cards for cities they do not intend to explore while making sure to collect cards for their expeditions. Be careful though – you don’t want your opponent to do better than you do! Lost Cities is a fast game with

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Introducing… Hero Mages!

Indie developer D20Studios released Hero Mages, a turn-based strategy game that melds elements from miniatures, cards, and social board games into one ball of fun. Hero Mages allows players from all over the world to come together to build, manage, and run their own fantasy armies in the convenience of their browser window. But wait, it gets better! Hero Mages is completely free to play and can be found at www.heromages.com. With a hand of cards representing spells and dice, two to four players take turns making their moves and attacking with their team of three characters, fighting to control the destiny of Papillion, a land at war after a mysterious prophecy. One character is a magician with the power to use magical abilities. Use the power of the elements. Summon creatures. Alter the very world. Defeat your enemies and emerge the victor as the Hero Mage! Hero Mages comes

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Want to Own Your Street?

Now you can! At least virtually anyway. Hasbro launched Monopoly City Streets online, a reality Google Maps based game where every street on the planet can be bought and almost immediately developed – but just by one person. So sign up today and use your 3 million Monopoly dollars to get your virtual hands on the street you lived on as a kid, the street you want to live on, or a street you’d love (I wonder if 5th avenue or Rodeo Dr. is already taken…). If it is, sharpen your bargaining skills and trade for it! The new online game is launched in conjunction with the new 3-D buildable Monopoly City board game, in which players don’t need to wait to own their monopoly in order to begin development and earning more income. “The online experience for Monopoly City Streets emphasizes the exciting dealing and negotiating elements of MONOPOLY,”

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Ultimate Board Game Collection Now Available on PSN

The Ultimate Board Game Collection (UBGC) has been released on PSN for the PSP. The game features 24 classic games from all over the world. UBGC offers single player or 5 person multiplayer either local or online. Games included are:  Backgammon, Soduku, Checkers, Anagrams, Word Cubes, Concentration, Kakuro, Jigsaws, Enigma, Reversi, Mahjong, Snakes & Ladders, Naval Battle, Parcheesi, Quattro, Gomoku, Dice, Cominoes, 3D Tic-Tac-Toe, Shogi, Mancala, and Go. UBGC also supports game sharing with five full games and PSP systems that do not have the full game. UBGC also features: Multiplayer support with wireless, Single player endurance mode, Complex tutorials.

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You just sunk my Battleship! Enigma Battleship Drinking Game

There is nothing like a drinking related gadget to round off the Gadgets blog for this week of celebrations. (July 1st Canada Day, and July 4th Independence Day.) So why not combining some of our favorite things? A board game and drinking! For the look of the images, this is a well done game. The image descipition states that “The exterior design of the wood case was based on the enigma encrypting machine as well as the game´s name. The game also features a radar screen to mark the shots of each player and a list of the ships remaining.” The description also below explains how the game work. “It´s played just like the usual Battleship game with one addition. If you miss the target you drink a sip of water, and if you hit an enemy boat you opponent empties the corresponding shot glass.” The downside to this right

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King.com Unveils 2 New Sponsored Games

This week, King.com has released two new sponsored games. The first, Spinmatch, combines tricky avoidance skills with moving color matching. Players control a wheel of spinning brightly colored octopi in an attempt to match up the same colors amongst other octopi moving across the screen at different speeds. My take: I like the challenge of the game and the new spinny concept. The music is quite fun – at first. As the difficulty level rose, the music got to me a little and I had to turn it down. I do think it’s worth a try for a quick break in the humdrum of a regular day. The second, Dynamic Systems, challenges players with the task of getting the little silver ball into the cup, armed with tools like iron bars, bounce boards, swinging hammers, gears and big wooden arches. It is a test of architectural eyes and deductive reasoning.

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Monopoly Review

Platform: Xbox 360 (Also available on PS3, Wii) ERSB: E for Everyone Genre: Interactive Board Game Number of Players: 1-4 Publisher: EA Release Date: Dec 5, 2008 Official Website Buy (for fans) One of the most revered of all board games, Monopoly is one of the first EA Hasbro titles to hit consoles just in time for the holiday season. Instead of dragging out three different boards, trying to find all the money and player tokens, you can pop a copy into any of the current generation platforms and select from multiple themed boards without having to worry about who is going to be cleaning up once the game is over. Let’s start out with the Classic mode we are most familiar with. In this mode, you and up to three friends (or computer AI) can select from the original board, the new World Board from Here & Now Edition, a

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Hasbro’s Clue gets a facelift

I have always felt that Clue was a bit timeless. Then again I grew up playing the game with various people and can even remember the movie. But sometimes even the best of board games needs a little bit of a makeover. Hasbro Inc, has updated Clue by including younger characters, more weapons, and added rooms to the house. The Professor has been axed, literally. Other characters are given more modern names such as Miss Scarlet is now Kasandra Scarlet, Mr. Green is now Jacob Green, Colonel Mustard is now Jack Mustard, and the professor is replaced by Victor Plum, a billionaire video game designer. Eleanor Peacock and Diane White are the last two characters. The characters now have special powers that assist them with finding out who the real culprit is. The weapons list has increased to include: candlestick, knife,rope, dumbbell, trophy or poison and others. We say goodbye

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