From the monthly archives:

September 2004

Games ahead

September 30, 2004

It’s been quiet recently. My gaming activities have been more focused on the console games side, but hey, things are heating up here as well. Next weekend I’m heading to Jyväskylä to see my mother and Ismo and as usual, games are in schedule. I’m looking forward to finally try Fifth Avenue, but I suppose [...]

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International Gamers Awards 2004

September 22, 2004

The winner of the International Gamers Awards is St. Petersburg. Neat. When I wrote about the nominees, I wished but didn’t expect it to win. Now the game has won both IGA and DSP awards — my taste in games is better than I thought, it seems. It is no surprise that I was correct [...]

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RSS feed with comments

September 21, 2004

Because I have little to write about games, I’ll meddle with blog technology. Iain had one, it was cool, I want one: a RSS feed with comments included.

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Settlers of Catan outselling Monopoly in the Netherlands

September 19, 2004

Gameblogger tells a rumour about Settlers of Catan outselling Monopoly in the Netherlands last year. If that’s true, it’s certainly good news. Even with the Finnish Catan now out, I wouldn’t bet on that happening in Finland.

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Yours truly at Madeira

September 16, 2004

Here’s a picture of me at Madeira. Our hotel had, in addition to a tennis court, table tennis, two swimming pools and a spa, some nice little outdoors Chess equipment. We didn’t play, but I did pose for a picture one evening. As for my clothes, well, we were heading for the hotel restaurant which [...]

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Finnish Game of the Year 2004: Carcassonne

September 16, 2004

Carcassonne wins the Finnish Game of the Year 2004 award. As we all know, Settlers of Catan didn’t make it, not even to the finals. However, it got a special mention as an interesting, new kind of game. So basically, I think that reads great game, but too complicated for the award. Finalists included Yundao, [...]

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St. Petersburg wins DSP!

September 15, 2004

It’s Deutscher Spiele Preis awards time. According to Mik’s DSP 2004 page, 2, 341 gamers cast their votes to determine the best game of 2004. Winner is St. Petersburg and — no surprises here — I think it’s well deserved. I can also agree with San Juan placing second. I’ve played eight games out of [...]

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Inconsequential Ruminations moves

September 14, 2004

Inconsequential Iain joins the ranks of people moving from Movable Type to WordPress. If you’ve been reading (and if not, check his blog out, it’s a good read), note his new RSS feed.

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My wedding

September 4, 2004

Oh, and in case you’re interested: I’ve been married man for a week now. For more information, including pictures, see My life as a married man in my other blog.

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Voting procedures

September 4, 2004

In general I prefer awards handed out by a well-chosen jury with a clear agenda. Public voting prefers the popular games too much. For example, the winner of the Finnish Players’ Picks 2004 is fairly easy to guess — there aren’t many games that could do it. My bet is Carcassonne and if it doesn’t [...]

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