Paul: Back in January, we teased that we had something big coming. Teased.
It’s here.
Quinns: Everybody, please make your way to the new Shut Up & Sit Down site. Ah, no crowding! Form an orderly line! No rushing, people. Millicent! Calm down!
This site isn’t going anywhere, but updates will appear on the new one. Please update your bookmarks, friends. Safe journey.
Quinns: We’re used to board games testing our brains, reflexes, even our privates. But lungs? That’s a new one.
Enter Antoine Bauza’s Rampage, which should be landing this year. Bauza’s one of our favourite designers here at SU&SD, having crafted 7 Wonders and Ghost Stories, both of which are capable of collapsing your face into deep thought like a strong man might fold a deck chair.
With Rampage, 2-4 players will be dropping their wooden kaiju monsters to crush buildings, blowing on civilians to claim their pathetic lives and even flicking themselves at one another in foul, animal anger. Doesn’t that sound perfect?
[Introducing friend of SU&SD and games journalist Leigh Alexander.]
Quinns: So here’s what happened.
Leigh: OK.
Quinns: A while back some SU&SD readers joked that we should review Tease: The Liberating Game for Couples and Groups. I got in touch with the PR
Leigh: Oh, I’ll bet you did.
Quinns: I GOT IN TOUCH WITH THE PR, who said she wasn’t sure they should send a game to a site that would probably just make fun of it. Which was a fair cop. I just wanted to do a video where four men play Tease and are forced to give one another massages.
Except then they sent me the game anyway! And… it’s… pretty good!
Quinns: I’ve had this nagging thought for a month now, like someone left a window open in my skull. Why aren’t there more team games? Not co-op games, but games that let you bond with your friends both as a team and in hatred of your filthy opposition. Surely that’s the best thing ever?
I’m still figuring out who I can telephone to complain about this. In the meantime, you guys could enjoy my favourite 5 team games, just published on Kotaku, in which I compare 1812: The Invasion of Canada to buckaroo, and give a shout out to Tease: The Liberating Game for Couples and Groups. Clicky click!
There’s also a board gaming secret in there. Shh! Don’t tell anybody. Not even your mother. Especially not your mother. Because I already told her.
Quinns: Ooh! Can’t touch this! Can’t touch this! You can’t touch the games news! It’s because it’s on the internet.
This was a great week for fans of salmon and runs thereof. Jesse Catron’s off-kilter fish racing game Salmon Run is now available for pre-order, including an expansion that adds dangerous fisherman hexagons.
Maybe you wanted something a little… stronger? Step right this way.
Paul: How’s your tux?
Quinns: A little tight. How’s yours?
Paul: I went with the dress. It was cheaper. HELLO, ladies and gentlemen, boys and antiboys. It’s time for our top 5 games of 2012, which will almost certainly be as well-organised and halcyon as our top 10 Upcoming Games of 2012 feature, which ended up being 14 games, none of which we agreed on.
Quinns: Step this way, banishing all preconceptions from your mind, AND ALSO any thoughts that this feature is three months later. And let’s kick things off with…
Quinns: While iTunes and RSS feeds are beyond us, as the stars are beyond the humble antelope, I’ll tell you what! Paul and I can totally put a mic on a table and shout at it for 60 minutes.
Poor mic. Hit play!
Alternatively download the fourth SU&SD podcast right here!
That is, if you’d like to hear us talk about The Resistance: Avalon, the X-Wing Miniatures Game, Libertalia, Eclipse, Puzzle Strike 3rd Edition, Descent 2nd Edition, Spartacus, Core Worlds and The Cave!
That is so many games! You couldn’t even carry them all at once!
If you’re new to our podcasts, you’ll find the first, second and third down those cyberlinks. Enjoy, children.
Quinns: Fwsshh! It’s the weekly Games News, soaring into your life like a coment made of… news? Unlike a comet, though, Games News probably won’t kill you. It’ll just make you stronger.
This week was good news for fans of ships, starting with Gunship: First Strike!, pictured above. Successfully Kickstarted last year, it looks like this intimidating orgy of ships, cards and custom dice is now shipping!
It’s got fighter squadrons. It’s got a free campaign mode where losing a carrier feels like a punch to the soul. It’s got cards you put on top of other cards(?). It’s got so much I think I need a lie down but we’re just getting started.
Quinns: You know when you buy a game, and you know it’s going to be good… and it is?
Space Cadets is a game where 3-6 players fly a Star Trek-like space ship together in real time. That makes it a lot like SU&SD favourite Space Alert, but where that game compresses your flight (and the game’s jewel-like puzzle) into a brown-trousered 10 minutes, Space Cadets’ flight fills a whole evening.
It also has everyone manning different stations. We’ll be doing a full review when we’re a more competent crew, but for now, let me just walk you through each station. I can’t think of a better way to persuade you why you need this box in your life.
We have a new addition to team SU&SD! The newest since all those insufferable attention bandits appeared in our Twilight Imperium Let’s Play.
Everybody, please give a big, big welcome to Matt Lees. He’s got a review of plastic slugfest King of Tokyo for us. If you’ve ever thought “I’d be a really good Godzilla,” watch this video. Because you’re wrong.
00:41 - Breakdancing dinosaur.
05:11 - Cameo from Quinns!
09:38 - MONTAGE!
