http://boxedupfun.com/about/ BoxedUpFun is a group of board game enthusiasts who want to spread the word about good games. We started this website to create a simple-to-browse database of games that our friends and family would want to know about. Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00 GMT en-us http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#january-contest-winner Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00 GMT Congratulations to the winner of our January game-giveaway: frahminator! He won himself a copy of Twilight Struggle, one of the best war-games of all time! Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest. We appreciate you all so much. Really the goal of these giveaway's is to get more content on our site so that its a better resource to everyone. We understand that everyone needs a little "encouragement" now and again though. This contest helped us climb to more than 375 reviews on our site!  We'll be back next month with another game giveaway. Wouldn't you like to know which game it is.... hmm.... http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#thanksgiving Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00 GMT Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Enjoy the day with family, food, and (hopefully) some awesome board games.  Today is a great day to introduce family members to games they've never tried before.  Have fun! With holiday shopping right around the corner be sure to take a minute and update your wishlist with whatever new games you want.  You can always send your friends and family a link to your wishlist to help them out. Also of note, Fantasy Flight Games just launched their holiday sale.  Check it out and you may find some sweet deals. http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#ww1-duel-packs-and-new-airplane-packs-will-be-the-next-releases-in-ww1-wings-of-glory Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00 GMT Following the recent releases of the WW1 Wings of Glory Rules and Accessories Pack and the first WW1 Airplane Packs, Ares Games announces the next additions to the WW1 Wings of Glory line. They will include two WW1 Wings of Glory Duel Packs, complete sets with two miniatures and everything needed to start playing, and 12 new WW1 Airplane Packs, featuring the planes Fokker Dr.I, Sopwith Camel, Albatros D.Va and Spad XIII, each of them in three different versions. These new items are scheduled to be released by the end of 2012. The WW1 Wings of Glory Duel Packs will be available in two versions: Fokker Dr.I vs Sopwith Camel (piloted by aces Manfred Von Richthofen and Arthur Roy Brown) and Albatros D.Va vs Spad XIII (Paul Baumer and Frank Luke Jr.). Beside the miniatures with special gaming bases, each set will feature a rulebook with Basic and Standard rules, maneuver and damage cards, 40 counters, two measuring rulers and two airplane consoles. The packs will also contain Target, Trench and Anti Aircraft Machine Gun cards, to allow playing a number of different scenarios. The WW1 Duel Packs suggested retail price is estimated to be US$ 30. The new WW1 Airplane Packs will present the Fokker Dr.I in versions piloted by Manfred Von Richthofen, Hans Kirschstein and Lothar von Richthofen, the Sopwith Camel of William Barker, Audrey Elwood and Harold Francis Stackard, the Albatros D.Va of Ernst Udet, Hans Joachim von Hippel and Josef Carl Peter Jacobs, and the Spad XIII of Edward Rickenbacker, Marcel Coadou and Georges Félix Madon. Each pack features a ready-to-play model, painted and assembled, and includes a special base with gaming stats, a variable altitude flying stand, and a specific deck of maneuver cards. The WW1 Wings of Glory products are 100% compatible with the former Wings of War game system, allowing players to use the miniatures and sets they already own together with the new brand releases. More information about the WW1 Duel Packs and the next Airplane Packs will be soon available in Ares Games website. http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#august-contest-winner Thu, 6 Sep 2012 00:00 GMT Chris Murray is our August contest winner!  He was the lucky winner of 7 Wonders.  Thank you everyone for the great participation and all the new reviews on the site. For all of you who didn't win don't worry too much, you'll have another chance to get a free game later in September. http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#monthly-contest-win-7-wonders Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00 GMT Today is the start of our second Boxed Up Fun contest! As always, this is your chance to win free board games!  This month's game is 7 Wonders.  It's a great game for all skill levels and age groups.  It has constant action and is quickly engaging.  You've probably heard of it before, but now is your chance to snag a copy for free. We loved the positive reponse we received last month with our first contest.  As long as you guys are enjoying them we'll keep running them.  The best part was seeing so many of you leave reviews and interact with the site.  The more reviews we have the more the site becomes useful.  We've already gotten a lot of positive feedback on the short review format and how quickly it allows you to get the feel of a game.  Along those lines, make sure to leave reviews this week and you can earn up to 3 entries into the contest.  For full contest details and rules visit the contest page. Your feedback truly drives the future of this site.  If you have any comments about the contest or the site in general please let us know at info@boxedupfun.com. http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#cardboard-fun-lab Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00 GMT Check out this intriguing TED talk about what makes board games fun.  Those interested in designing a game can learn something from it, but it's also interesting for anyone who plays modern board games.  It's a great little snapshot of how game mechanics can influence each other and grow over time. http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#boxed-up-fun-at-gencon-2012 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00 GMT Boxed Up Fun is heading down to Indianapolis this year for Gencon 2012! While there we'll be playing in a few competitions, cruising the convention hall, and looking for for sweet new games and new partners. We'd also love to meet you! Look us up on Twitter @BoxedUpFun to see what we're up to and let us know if you want to meet up.  Know of anything we need to check out? Let us know over Twitter or email and we'll keep you all updated as best as we can! Looking forward to being there and getting the scoop. http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#legendary-marvel-deck-building-game-announced Thu, 9 Aug 2012 00:00 GMT Upper Deck will release Legendary (working title), a deckbuilding game set in the Marvel universe and designed by Devin Low, formerly head developer of Magic: The Gathering, in November.  The game will include over 500 cards, a full color game board and color rule book, all sold together in a single package.  The art for all the cards and the packaging will be new, original art created for the game.  It’s described as easy to learn and fast-paced, with high replayability. Each player will start with a basic deck, then add new Marvel characters, such as Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Iron Man, throughout the game to become more and more powerful.  Unlike other deckbuilding games, the game fights back, with Masterminds like Magneto, Loki, or Dr. Doom working to defeat all the players at once.  The Mastermind is different for each game, pursuing a different Scheme with different rules.  Players will create their own combos on the fly, and use them to battle supervillains such as Venom, Mystique, Sabretooth, and Dr. Octopus. Upper Deck has a TCG based on Marvel Super Hero Squad in the market (see "'Marvel Super Hero Squad TCG' Tournament"), directed at fairly young gamers.  This new deckbuilding game appears to target an older demo, utilizing the full pantheon of Marvel heroes and villains in the process. http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#new-seasons-board-game Thu, 9 Aug 2012 00:00 GMT A competition between sorcerers is the theme of this new board game from Asmodee, releasing this month.  Seasons was designed by Regis Bonnessee (Fabula, Himalaya) for the Libellud studio, producers of the award-winning Dixit and a partner with Asmodee. In Seasons, the players earn points by collecting magic energy and using it to summon familiars and create items.  The game mechanics use a combination of card play and dice rolling.  To maximize their score, players try to use combinations of cards during the best "seasons" of the game. Seasons includes 20 dice and more than 140 cards.  The rulebook includes three different difficulty levels for additional playing options.  The suggested retail price will be $49.99. http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#ares-games-at-gen-con-2012 Thu, 2 Aug 2012 00:00 GMT Ares Games, the Italian publisher of the War of the Ring and Wings of Glory board games, will be present at Gen Con 2012 (August 16-19, Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis) releasing the WW1 Wings of Glory Rules and Accessories Pack and the WW1 Airplane Packs featuring 12 fighters. Besides that, Ares Games will host in its booth (Booth number #2134), demos of its games and preview some of its upcoming titles – Aztlán and Lords of Middle-earth. http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#eminent-domain-contest-results Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00 GMT Thank you to everyone who participated in this past week's contest, we really appreciated all of the reviews you left. By doing so you contributed to Boxed Up Fun and made it a more valuable resource for other gamers. By adding reviews you also helped to make our "similar games recommendation engine" even more accurate! The winner of this month's contest is egofumpapa, congratulations! We'll be contacting you today to get your details. As for the rest of you, next month is a new month! With a new chance to win Boxed Up Fun games!  http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#boxed-up-fun-monthly-contests Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00 GMT You may have already noticed if you checked the front page, we just launched our first Boxed Up Fun contest! We're planning on running monthly board game giveaways that will run for one week each month. Every month will be a different game that we've created a video for.  This is your chance to win free board games! Our overall goal with the contests is to encourage users to interact with the site. We would love to see everyone leave reviews on the games they've played and share their experience with other users. That's why you can earn 3 entries into the contest simply by reviewing games on the site during the next week. Check out the main contest page for official rules and for more information about entries via facebook and twitter. We would love to hear feedback about the contest or the site in general. What do you like? What would you like to see different?  Are there any new features you'd like us to add?  We're open to any possibility and we hope to grow Boxed Up Fun in collaboration with our user base.  Let us know at info@boxedupfun.com. http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#happy-april-fools Sun, 1 Apr 2012 00:00 GMT As many of you noticed, we had a fun little time this weekend with our April Fools prank of our "exclusive" game announcement for "Epic Dungeon Army Wars: Advanced". We had a good 700 people come view the video and we're pretty happy about that. Thanks to everyone that caught on to the fun and spread it around.  For those of you that missed it, be sure to watch the video! Below is our original "fake" announcement: Boxed Up Fun is pleased to have an exclusive first-look at a new board game, Epic Dungeon Army Wars: Advanced. This one-of-a-kind strategy game is the first to combine fast-paced decision making with a detailed storyline that becomes an integral part of the play action.  In Epic Dungeon Army Wars Advanced, you will lead an army to explore dungeons, fight the undead, search for treasures and rule the world! This 2-5 player strategy board game takes "EPIC" to a whole new level. See our exclusive video review of this game on Boxed Up Fun, and be sure to buy the game when it comes out in Summer 2012. http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#new-video-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-card-game Thu, 5 Jan 2012 00:00 GMT Our very own DarkJodo filmed and edited a new video for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game. A very cool cooperative card game where players assemble a band of adventurer's who attempt to complete quests in Middle-earth. Watch it now, and review the game if you've played it! http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#a-new-year-means-new-stuff Mon, 2 Jan 2012 00:00 GMT Welcome to 2012! Last year was an excellent year for board gaming, and we expect that this year will be just as good. To go along with all the great games that will be released, Boxed Up Fun will be unveiling some new features. While we can't give the specifics just yet, stay tuned for more updates! Plus, we are still updating the database and pumping out new videos. Be sure to check us out on Facebook and YouTube.Here's to a Happy New Year!  http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#were-friendly Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00 GMT We've finally got a the website off of the ground and we're closing in on listing over 100 games on the website. 2 more videos are currently being worked on and we've got grand plans for more content. We're also friendly! Meaning, we're on all of the major social sites out there as well. Take some time to look us up on Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. We'd love to get to know you more through those sites! http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#were-at-gen-con Tue, 2 Aug 2011 00:00 GMT Several of our members are at Gen Con Indianapolis this week talking with people and showing them our new website. If you see them in the "BoxedUpFun" T-Shirts, make sure to say hi. http://boxedupfun.com/about/ http://boxedupfun.com/about/#welcome-to-our-new-site Mon, 1 Aug 2011 00:00 GMT We're glad you stopped by our site. We're passionate about games and passionate about creating a great resource for games. We want to create a site where geeks and noobies can discover great board games. We've just launched and will be adding new games and videos every month. All of the functionality on the site should work right now, but may be lacking in features. Forgive us, and in the meantime please explore the site and let us know any feedback you might have. Thanks for your interest!