I haven't tried this! I'm usually two minutes away from the train when I need a ticket. I wonder if you can make a single ticket more expensive than an annual train pass..

On the weekend I'll be mostly working for a deadline early next week. Tonight I'm hoping to play a round of Ticket to Ride: Switzerland with slightly modified rules, and maybe Kingdom Builder or Castles of Mad King Ludwig.

Hey now, Talos is the Stormlord, god of destruction. Now, give us an offering or lightning might mysteriously strike you and everything you hold dear!

I usually like to play RPGs over christmas, because it offers perfect escapism from my family and all the trappings of the period. It's just nice to transport yourself to another world without christmas, to deal with problems other than "do we have enough potatoes?" and which deserve the level of seriousness currently…

Perhaps this was copy/pasted from a future review of that game where you actually play a piece of toast.

A lovecraftian horror detective mystery? I'm sold!

Paradise is very good, once you get used to the open world aspect compared with Burnout 3's mission structure.

Where's the next Burnout? That's the only racing game I can be bothered to play.

I felt like you were missing earlier in the week - glad you enjoyed it :)

Romances that don't involve the protagonist? I'm sold! Now I need a console bundle. What are you playing on incidentally?

You should still be as sneaky as possible, but just as soon as the symbol comes up to silently sword-murder a bad guy, give them a shotgun to the face. You can't help it, it's an urge..

I came across these very professional rearrangements of SimCity 2000 music a while back, which may interest some:

If you're picking from Jet Set Radio, it has to be Sweet Soul Brother.

Super Mario's Sleigh Ride should be on everybody's seasonal playlist. Awesome to see the guys at OCRemix get some well-deserved attention! Between them and VGMix, by iTunes library in college was completely unsuitable for shuffle among polite, non-videogaming friends.

I'd say that Seven Wonders has a lot more variety. The cards in Progress seemed quite similar to me - one might make you draw another card when you take the draw action, another might increase your hand limit, and they'd have similar costs and lead to similar technologies. Seven Wonders has all the different colours…

I think this would have to happen in the new year, but perhaps I can put something up on the steam group and get a list of names.

I would be seriously interested in running a Gameological Diplomacy game. I used to use dipbounced, which is apparently still around..

It recently got a distributor in France, so there's a better chance it gets picked up elsewhere!

Hmm. It depends a bit on how many you are. You might try Seven Wonders, which actually needs 3-7 people (and there are plenty of expansions if you like it). If you'd like something short that involves plenty of intrigue and backstabbing then I also like Shadow Hunters. If you'd like something more conventionally…

Hey! I don't think we have subsections, but boardgames get occasional articles and come up frequently when we discuss weekend gaming plans on Friday. It sounds like you've had a pretty good intro to euro-style games - Puerto Rico was probably one of the first I was exposed to. Caylus is considered to be a little bit…