The Game Pit

This time for our report from an Essen attendee we are joined by the gamer who got us both back into gaming, Steve. Steve shares his years of experience in gaming with us and casts a critical eye over the games he played at Spiel 2014. Check out what he thought were the highlights and lowlights of the show.Catch all our episodes at 2d6.orgFind great gaming podcasts at dicetowernetwork.com

We are back with the second of our reports from Essen 2014. This time Nathan visits The Pit and tell us about the games which caught his eye this year at the big show. Catch all our episodes at 2d6.orgFind loads of great gaming podcasts at dicetowernetwork.com

This is the first in a series of shorter episodes in which Sean and Ronan have a chat with one of the Game Pit contributors who was at Essen this year. In this episode Teri gives us her thoughts and impressions on the show and which games impressed her or otherwise.Catch all our episodes at 2d6.orgHead to dicetowernetwork.com for loads of great gaming podcasts

For our final Essen 2014 preview episode we give out thoughts on nine more upcoming releases, one went missing somehow. We cover Hyperborea, Panthalos, Clinic, Waggle Dance, Castle Crush!, Melee, Colt Express, Neptun and Hoyuk. We look at the information available prerelease and rate them each as either a Treasure or a Trap.Catch fantastic gaming podcasts at dicetowernetwork.comOn 2d6.org you can catch us and other great audio, video and written gaming content.

Round two of the Essen previews as another ten games are looked over from afar and judged to be treasure or trap.Discussed are Doodle City, Deus, Fields or Arle, Isaribi, AquaSphere, Evolution, Lord of the Ice Garden, Kings Pouch, Scheffeln and Royals.The Game Pit is a proud member of The Dice Tower Network and you can also find us on 2d6.org. 

Essen fever has swept into the Game Pit and excitement levels are peaking.Ronan and Sean use the Treasure Hunt format to look ahead at some of the games coming out in the Essen Spiel that have caught their interest for one reason or another.The boys decide based on the information they have, if the games will be treasure or trap. The Game Pit is a proud member of The Dice Tower Network and you can also find us on 2d6.org.

Four more games slip into the depths of the pit and are picked over at length by Ronan and Sean. The games talked over are Libertalia, Greed, Gloom and Praetor.Also in this episode we have a sneak peek at King Down which is currently on Kickstarter - King Down Kickstarter Link.**We have experienced more technical issues and apologise for any reduction in sound quality. We are working hard to rectify the problems**The Game Pit is a proud member of The Dice Tower Network and you can also find us on 2d6.org.

In this expanded length episode Sean & Ronan discuss the good and bad of board game expansions including their personal Top 5s and a few others which didn't quite hit the mark.Catch more great podcasts at dicetowernetwork.com and great gaming content at 2d6.org

It's again time to have a look at four more games that have fallen into the pit.In this episode, Sean and Ronan discuss Fauna, Splendor, Vikings and Valley of the Kings. ****We apologise for the poor sound quality in this episode. We had some technical problems that will be addressed  before the next episode**** The Game Pit is a proud member of The Dice Tower Network and you can also find us on 2d6.org.

Now that they have had some time to fully look over and test a large range of game releases from 2013, Ronan and Sean decide on their top ten games from last year.Also in the show is their biggest disappointment of the year and a general discussion about how 2013 panned out for game releases The Game Pit is a proud member of The Dice Tower Network and you can also find us on 2d6.org.****The Game Pit will be hosting some sessions at Loncon 3 in August (14th to 18th) so if you're heading there, sign up for the Game Pit Games Klatches and visit the gaming tent for some games and chat. Also, Ronan will be on two gaming discussion panels on the Friday and the Monday of the convention.****

Sean and Ronan return to their Picking Over the Bones format and discuss four games that have fallen into the pit recently.Discussed in this episode are Dark Darker Darkest, Helios, Pack of Heroes and Pagoda. The Game Pit is a proud member of The Dice Tower Network and you can also find us on 2d6.org.****The Game Pit will be hosting some sessions at Loncon 3 in August (14th to 18th) so if you're heading there, sign up for the Game Pit Games Klatches and visit the gaming tent for some games and chat. Also, Ronan will be on two gaming discussion panels on the Friday and the Monday of the convention.****

Part two of the latest Treasure Hunt with Ronan and Sean working their way through another 12 games that have caught the eye for one reason or another.How many of these will the boys decide are treasure and what games do they suspect are traps? The Game Pit is a proud member of The Dice Tower Network and you can also find us on 2d6.org.****The Game Pit will be hosting some sessions at Loncon 3 in August (14th to 18th) so if you're heading there, sign up for the Game Pit Games Klatches and visit the gaming tent for some games and chat. Also, Ronan will be on two gaming discussion panels on the Friday and the Monday of the convention.****

Once again Ronan and Sean climb out of the pit to go in search of future gaming gold.In this first half of the treasure hunt they look at 12 games that have caught their eye for one reason or another and then try to work out if the game will be a treasure or a trap. The Game Pit is a proud member of The Dice Tower Network and you can also find us on 2d6.org.****The Game Pit will be hosting some sessions at Loncon 3 in August so if you're heading there, sign up for the Games Klatches and visit the gaming tent for some games and chat****

In this episode Ronan and Sean head way back to Episode 5 and the first Treasure Hunt episode to see how their predictions turned out.This is something we wanted to do as the verdicts were based on what might be rather than actual gameplay.See if their initial thoughts proved true or if they completely changed their minds. The Game Pit are proud members of The Dice Tower Network, where you can find the very best in gaming news and podcasts.You can find The Game Pit along with a host of gaming goodness at 2D6.org.

Welcome to another Picking Over the Bones episode of The Game Pit where Sean and Ronan discuss 4 games they have recently played.In this episode they chew the fat on Jaipur, Russian Railroads, The Agents and Pathfinder: The Adventure Card Game. The Game Pit are proud members of The Dice Tower Network, where you can find the very best in gaming news and podcasts.You can find The Game Pit along with a host of gaming goodness at 2D6.org.The Agents (discussed in this episode) is available to KickStart until 22nd May 2014: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/673576049/the-agents-return-the-double-edged-cards-game-is-b