SHUX Previews: Fun & Family Games!
Are you looking for games for your family or a big group? These games are more accessible and pack a wallop! Let’s see what the team has scared up for us!
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SHUX Previews: Toothy Tactics
We’ve covered a few of these on the podcast, but now you can SEE them with your very own EYES! Enjoy!
Read MoreSHUX Previews: Crunchy Euros
It’s time for everyone’s favourite previews roundup: Crunchy Euros! Not nearly enough beige for our tastes, but a very exciting lineup all the same!
Which one is looking the crunchiest to you?
Read MoreSHUX Previews: Puzzle & Abstract
Next up on our tireless previews of all that is new and shiny is our roundup of puzzle and abstract games! Enjoy!
Read MoreSHUX Previews: Deeply Thematic
Well it’s not quite SHUX time yet, but we’re going to get things rolling early and make sure all you AwSHUXers are included as well! Here’s our first batch of exciting new games – let us know what you think of the new format we’re trying, and what games you’re most excited to try!
Read MoreSHUX’22 is in a month!
Tom: “SHUX! HUH?! What does it stand for?!” We don’t really know. But we do know that it’s Canada’s biggest (and best!) board game convention. It’s happening in less than a month, and you should absolutely come along!
As Matt (who is in your garden, right now) attests in the video above, SHUX is our annual board game get-together in the beautiful city of Vancouver. This year we’ve got GAMES, GUESTS, AND RIGOROUS COVID PRECAUTIONS! That last one is less exciting, but it’s certainly important – for your whole bod! We take pride in SHUX being a safe space – and not just in a covid-cautious sense – we truly do want everyone to feel as welcome as possible to sit themselves down at any table they like, and start playing some molten hot board games.
We’ve got a great set of special guests running all kinds of shows, a fabulously stocked library of games, and the whole team running around trying to say hello to literally everyone. I can’t wait. Tickets are available right here, as well as everything you need to know about the show.
But what’s happening in the land of YouTube? Nothing this week, I’m afraid! After the absolutely shocking revelation that a card game (with tokens!) does in fact exist, the whole team have gone into hibernation… by which I mean ‘squirrelling away on preparations for SHUX’. We’ll have a fresh video for you next week, instead!
But don’t fret too much, because we’ve got a truly fabulous feature over in pod-town; Quinns and Ava are going to be talking all about their favourite RPGs! I’m just about to edit it, and I’m quite excited.
That’s all for this week! What have you been up to, everybody?
Read MoreReview: SCOUT
What’s up YouTube – Thomas Boardgames has made another video! It’s about SCOUT – a card game! (with tokens!). Excuse the extremely hungover energy in this one; I was, in fact, hungover.
Enjoy!
Read MoreHow to Get Into the World of Tabletop RPGs!
Well, here’s a first! The first ever Shut Up & Sit Down segment inspired by a letter from a medical doctor.
Huge thanks to Chicago’s “Dr. Randall” for giving Quinns the nudge to create this video, which is a lengthy guide to getting into RPGs. Are you intimidated? Lost? Confused? We’re here to make you marginally less of all of those things.
Read MoreReview: Khôra: Rise of an Empire
This week on Shut Up & Sit Down, Matt is providing everyone with a public service – reviewing maybe the driest game we have received this year. An absolutely delirious mix of currency, tracks, and ‘playing cards’, Khora: Rise of an Empire seems a typical eurogame on the surface, but what lies… underneath?! Enjoy!
Read MoreReview: Living Forest
Ava: What’s that hiding in the undergrowth? Why it’s another Ava review! She’s been working on this so long that Living Forest has gone from under-rated gem to Kennerspiel Des Jahres, and I’m so miffed I didn’t beat the German jury to the punch. This lovely deckbuilding push your luck ecosystem has magic, woods, cute art and an appealing pricetag. Do you want to get lost in the woods with me? Don’t answer that, just watch the video.
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