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The Dice Tower
The Dice Tower is an Internet podcast (a radio show you can download) about boardgames. Your hosts for the show are Tom Vasel, noted game reviewer, and Eric Summerer. In the show, Tom and Sam talk about boardgames, card games, wargames, miniatures, and much more. New to the Dice Tower? Then listen to: Episode 0: Introduction & Top 15 Games a New Gamer Should Buy Note: The Dice Tower episodes are provided as a service to the community and although they are entirely family friendly, Funagain Games is not responsible for their content.

The Dice Tower
  • Episode #180: Movies into Board Games

    In this episode, we start a new contest, talk about what movies should be made into games, and mention several recently played games - such as Lords of Vegas. Moritz talks about Hexagames, Geoff covers regret, and Ryan aspires to the road not taken. We also do a review of Railways of the World: the card game.

    This week's show is available in mp3 format only:
    Regular (mp3): Episode 180 (mp3 - audio only)



  • Episode #179: Dice Tower Awards: 2009

    In this episode, we announce our Dice Tower Awards for the best boardgames of 2009. We discuss the best expansion, best artwork, best production, best new designer, best game from a small publisher, most innovative game, best party game, best war game, and finally - the best game of the year.

    This week's show is available in two formats:
    Regular (mp3): Episode 179 (mp3 - audio only)
    Enhanced (m4a): Episode 179 (m4a - audio with pictures)



  • Episode #23: Top Games from 2002

    In this episode, originally posted November 2, 2005, Joe Steadman and Tom Vasel talk about our contest for Memoir '44 and expansions, and have an audio blog about the Essen fair from a guest reporter. We review Runebound and Combat Soldiers: Battle of the Bulge, and answer a few user and random questions. We mention our websites of the month, and talk about recently played games. Finally, we top the episode off with our top ten board games from 2002.

    This week's show is available in mp3 format only:
    Regular (mp3): Episode 23 (mp3 - audio only)



  • Episode #178: Top Hot Games from GenCon 2010

    In this episode we spend a bit of time talking about Gen Con 2010, and some of the strengths and weaknesses of the convention. Geoff talks about one of the most famous math problems and how it relates to games, and Dexxter and the Chief recount a recently played game. Finally, Tom talks about his top "hot" games from GenCon 2010.

    This week's show is available in two formats:
    Regular (mp3): Episode 178 (mp3 - audio only)
    Enhanced (m4a): Episode 178 (m4a - audio with pictures)



  • Episode #177: Top 10 lifetime gaming experiences

    In this show, we talk about several games - Campaign Manager 2008, Mad Zeppelin, Triplica, and Telestrations. We also talk about our top ten game experiences from our lifetimes.

    This week's show is available in two formats:
    Regular (mp3): Episode 177 (mp3 - audio only)
    Enhanced (m4a): Episode 177 (m4a - audio with pictures)




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