What I brought from Essen Spiel?

2024-10-21 Portal Games

Besides COVID, what else I brought from EssenSPIEL! We are back after EssenSPIEL and I am here with a short update for you. First of all, yes, I got COVID at EssenSPIEL. Hence, no vlog or any new materials on our website these few past days. Besides COVID, I brought many games and a ton of cookies – here is my loot after the first day!

Besides cookies I bought a new Eric Lang’s game Life in Retarra, I bought War Story from Dave Thompson, Age of Comics about running a comic book company, and Around the World in 80 Days, because I love Julius Verne novels. I also bought a ton of little games from Japan and Korea. For Portal Games EssenSPIEL was a chance to meet with our international partners, and discuss how AI Space Puzzle and Thorgal are doing in each of the markets. It was also a chance to present them with our games planned for 2025. We will announce them to public in January next year.

EssenSPIEL also means that Resurgence, expansion to Imperial Miners, and expansion to Neuroshima Hex are officially released, you can support Portal Games and order them directly from us, or ask your FLGS for a copy.

Link: https://shop.portalgames.pl/category/new

What else is happening?

One of our fans creates new armies for Monolith Arena, check them out: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/238393/monolith-arena/files

My blog is back, last week I wrote a short story about learning rules and ruining the game for everyone.

Our long time friend and fan, Kirdy from Belgium did an unboxing Thorgal, check it out:

Here, on the other hand, is Tom Vasel’s review of Resurgence!

And a new place to interact with me – you can follow me now on BlueSky! I am acting there as @trzewik

And last, but not least – reminder we have a dedicated FB group for all Robinson Crusoe fans. You can join in here to see for instance photos of painted minis for Robinson Crusoe like these:

Take care, talk to you next week! Ignacy