Links
By Brian Waters, Rick Thornquist, and W. Eric Martin
We've listed an incredible number of gaming websites here, but we won't pretend to have listed every gaming URL that you could possibly run across. The Internet is simply too vast! That said, let us know if we've missed a favorite site of yours and we might find a place for it.
If you're new to gaming, start with the Spotlight section for our take on the best gaming sites on the Internet.
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Contents
Spotlight
News
Information
Magazines
Forums
Designers & Designer Resources
Publishers & Online Stores by Country
Buying and Selling Resources
Accessories
Online Games
Podcasts & Videocasts
Blogs
Opponent and Club Resources
Clubs
Comics
Spotlight
| Site | Description |
| BoardGameGeek | The biggest boardgaming site on the Internet. BoardGameGeek includes a massive database of almost every game published as well as reviews, pictures, forums and much, much more. |
| The Games Journal | Though the site is no longer updated on a regular basis, The Games Journal archives are chockful of top quality articles about gaming. |
| Spielfrieks | Spielfrieks is a Yahoo discussion group that focuses on Eurogames. Though much of the talk has moved to BoardGameGeek, discussions still go on. To join, send an email to spiefrieks-owner@yahoogroups.com. |
| The Games of Bruno Faidutti | Game designer Bruno Faidutti has an excellent site with lots of information about his games, as well as an Ideal Game Library with hundreds of titles reviewed and recommended. |
| Best of Boardgames | The Best of Boardgames site presents highlights of recently posted boardgaming information. |
News
About Board/Card Games Boardgame NewsBordspel - Dutch Critical Gamers Games Fanatic – Polish GamingReport Gezelschapssel – Dutch Les P'tits Jeux du Mercredi OgreCave Spielbox - German  Tric Trac |
Information & Reviews
| Bavarian Game Archive Board Game Player Board Game Search Engine (Google-based) Boardgame Beast BoardGameGeek Boardgames Australia Fun and Boardgames The Game Cabinet - No longer updated Game Central Station Gamepack - English/Dutch Kulkmann's G@mebox Ludigaume.net - French Luding RPG.net SOS Gameviews (Steffan O'Sullivan) Spiellust – Polish/German Spotlight on Games! (Rick Heli) - The frames are a bit wonky, but search around and you'll find hundreds of useful reviews Starship Combat News La Tana dei Goblin - Italian Web Grognards |
Magazines
| Bits & Pieces
- Print Counter - Print Dice2Mice - Online Game Trade - Print Gamer Dad - Online Gamers Alliance - Print & online The Games Journal - Online; no longer updated, but still worth a visit or eight Game Magazine - Print Games Orbit - Print & online (German) Games Quarterly - Print & online Giocarea Online - Online (English/Italian) Indepth - Online Knucklebones - Print Plato - Online (French) Spelmagazijn - Online (Dutch) Tabula Magazine – Online and print (Hungarian) |
Forums
| BoardGameGeek NigglyBits rec.games.board Spielfrieks - Accidentally closed by a moderator; write to spiefrieks-owner@yahoogroups.com to join |
Designers & Designer Resources
| Acchittocca
- Italian Andrea Angiolino - Italian/English Ted Alspach - English Inka & Markus Brand – German Günter Burkhardt – German Marcel-André Casasola Merkle - German Bruno Cathala - English/French Doris & Frank - English/German Stefan Dorra - German Vincent Everaert - French Bruno Faidutti - English/French Roberto Fraga - French Friedman Freise - English/German Chris Handy - English Kory Heath - English Tom Jolly - English KaleidosGames (Spartaco Albertarelli) - Italian/English Reiner Knizia - English Wolfgang Kramer - German Serge Laget - English/French Lone Shark Games (James Ernest & Mike Selinker) - English Ludocreatix (Michael Palm & Lukas Zach) - English / German Alan R. Moon - English Fréderic Moyersoen - English, French, Dutch, German Sébastien Pauchon - French Lewis Pulsipher - English Stefan Risthaus - German Martin Samuel English Michael Schacht German/English Arno Steinwender German Team Annaberg (Marcel-André Casasola Merkle, Christwart Conrad, Jens-Peter Schliemann and Bernhard Weber) - German Klaus Teuber - English and German Marco Teubner – German Tom Wham - English Anja Wrede - German Tom Wuytack - English, Dutch & French Berlin Game Design Boardgame Designers Forum Projekt Spiel - Christian Beiersdorf, Licensing Agency and submissions to Ravensburger; English/German Protospiel Spielbany - playtesting group in Albany, NY Spiele Manufaktur |
Publishers & Online Stores
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Buying and Selling Resources
| BoardGameGeek
Marketplace - Buying and selling games BoardGamePrices.com - Compare prices at online stores (U.S., Canada, the UK, Sweden & Norway) BoardGameSearch - Find a game at an online game store Boardgame Seeker - Compare prices at online game stores Darwin's Game Closet - Used games, game parts, and rules for thousands of games Game Store Database - Locate a game store Kid Game Ratings - Suggested games for youths by age range Missing Game Parts - Used games and game parts SimBase Scans - Countersheet scans |
Accessories
| Hotz Maps - felt cloth
game maps Meeple People - shirts, pins, pillows, and more Rolco Inc. - supplier of game components Überbadger - a BGG-flavored Cafe Press store Zap Games – maker of changeable dice with snap-on faces |
Online Games
| Aso Brain Games -
sorta Settlers, kinda Carcassonne Biludi.de - Mr. Jack Boardgame Space - Zèrtz, Yinsh, Pünct, Hive, Gobblet, Lines of Action, Plateau, Hex, Trax Blokus.com - Blokus, Blokus Trigon, Blokus Duo BoardGameGeek Online Games - Euphrat & Tigris, Auf Heller und Pfennig (Kingdoms), Roads & Boats Boiteajeux (French) - Alhambra, Diaballik, Drôles de Zèbres, Fearsome Floors, Shazamm, Torres, Tyrus Brettspielnetz.de (German) - Igel Ärgern, Lost Cities, Kahuna, many classic games BrettspielWelt - Puerto Rico, Thurn & Taxis, Caylus, and dozens of other Eurogames Button Men Cycloop (Dutch) - Domaine, Titan, 1830, Schoko & Co., History of the World, Modern Art F2F Gaming - Hammer of the Scots Game Table Online - New England, 10 Days in Africa, Vampire, Igel Argern, more Gigamic – Wazabi Gyges - Only Ggyes, nothing more! HiveMania - All Hive, all the time Jeux sur un Plateau (French, German, English) - Caylus Magna Carta, Utopia, Animalia, Cold War: CIA vs. KGB, more Jij Bent! (Dutch) - Igel Ärgern, Kahuna, SeaSim, Subulata, Lost Cities, more KIBA (English & Italian) – Bao Little Golem - Go, Dvonn, Amazon, Street Soccer, Twixt, Breakthrough, and more Ludagora (French) - Medina, Vinci, Through the Desert, Hare & Tortoise, Set, Crazy Circus Ludoholic - Capitol, Urland (beta) MaBiWeb - Hansa, Samurai, Richelieu, In the Shadow of the Emperor Marquand.net - Ingenious (AI) Mastermoves.eu - Streetsoccer, 8 Cities, Land of the Lakes, Territories Richard's PBeM Server - Gipf Project, Mancala, Orion, and dozens of abstract games sorted by category SpielByWeb - Amun-Re, Wallenstein, Santiago, Reef Encounter, Hacienda, Tikal, Bus, Hoity Toity Super Duper Games - More than 50 turn-based abstract games Vassal - Down in Flames, Corsair Leader, and more Versus (French, English, Spanish, German) - Versus Warbound - A complex two-player game created by a US Army veteran You Play It - Cartagena, Blue Max, King Me!, Wooden Ships & Iron Men Yucata (German & English) - Masons, Yucata, Atta Ants, Rosenkönig, Chinagold, and more Your Turn My Turn - Kahuna, Lost Cities, StreetSoccer, Subulata, Tally Ho |
Podcasts & Videocasts
| Podcasts BoardGamePodcasts.com – A compendium of podcasts, both video and audio, with descriptions, links, and a way to search podcasts by topic. Very nice job by Donald Dennis and Ryan Macklin! Boardgame Babylon – Eric Burgess Boardgames To Go – Mark Johnson Five Minute Boardgame Reviews – Brian Waters, 
2006Game On! Garrett's Games and Geekiness – Doug Garrett Have Games Will Travel – Paul Tevis Head Games –
mid-2008How to Play – Ryan Sturm Little Wooden Cubist – Charley Eastman Meeples & Miniatures Ogre Cave Audio Report Point2Point Pulp Gamer – A network of blogs for business and fun The Boardgamer – ?The Dice Tower – Tom Vasel The Metagamers – Mark Haberman & Jim Cote The Spiel – Stephan Conway & David Coleson The Vintage Gamer |
Videocasts 2D6.org – game reviews Board Games with Scott – Scott Nicholson Board to Death Book Shelf Games Obsessed Board Gamers – Colin Sherman & Gary Owen Stefan Stignei (YouTube Channel) The Board Game Family The Gameshelf (themed TV show mixed with blog) indicates
a dormant – and presumed dead – site with the date of the last posting
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Blogs & Personal Sites
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Wolfgang FriebeOpponent and Club Resources
| Access Denied BGG Gamer Database BGG Gamer Finder Boardgame Meetups |
Clubs
Comics
| Board
2 Pieces Dork Tower Full Frontal Nerdity Larry Leadhead Nordwick Order of the Stick |
