Push Your Luck Podcast Ep 75: Chris Cantrell from Riot Games!

Hey everyone! This episode is quite special and exciting for me because we interviewed Chris from Riot Games about Mechs vs Minions, their first foray into the boardgaming world! Brian joins me as we chat with Chris about their thought processes and its especially intriguing for me because I am in both the video game and tabletop gaming world and its fascinating that a video game company decided to try their hand at publishing a boardgame when typically, its the other way around.

So check out our episode here!

Push Your Luck Podcast Ep 73 & 74

Hey everyone!

Website is not dead but i am focusing a lot more on my video reviews ;p nevertheless, wanted to let you know about Ep 73 & 74.

In Ep 73, I chat with my friend Brian Kang who just had his virgin experience at GENCON 2016! He was a volunteer demo staff and I asked him if he will recommend it to anyone, what he assumed and what he actually experienced at GENCON 2016. It is definitely a very different experience when I was with Asmodee last GENCON and I think a large part of it is now FFG is in charge of the volunteers group in North America. Its a pity though because I had a lot of fun there and I wished Brian had the same experience as I did. Oh well...

In Ep 74, I chat with Brian again on Captain Sonar and our thoughts about it. I still can never fully get into real time games like this mostly because I keep harboring the idea that mistakes can and will happen and you can never truly mitigate it and as such my own personal enjoyment when I win or lose is somewhat tainted...

Push Your Luck Podcast Ep 71: What's in a theme?

So after Brian's article on Mombasa, we had a discussion and wanted to talk more about themes and sensitivities, specifically why certain themes are chosen given how stereotypical it can be and possibility inaccurate representations can be found and it can then be perceived as insensitive. I invited Geoff to come and chat with us. I did invite a few others but due to scheduling conflict they could not make it but I will try and invite them again in the future to chat as I think this is a interesting and important topic to talk about.

A few disclaimers as you listen to the podcast:

a) we don’t claim to be experts, we just want to have a discussion, based on our experiences and ourselves as individuals

b) what we hope to achieve is some form of awareness to everyone who maybe listening to this podcast, some food for thought if you will

c) get other people thinking, talking and even discussing about this, be it if they are a publisher, designer or gamer

Please feel free to leave your comments and how you feel here in the blog post. Alternatively, please head to the guild on BGG and discuss there as well!

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Push Your Luck Podcast Ep68: What have we played?

Its been some time since Jon and I got together to chat again and this time we talk about some games we played recently! Games covered are: 

Pandemic Legacy
Inhabit the Earth
Advanced Civilization
The Pursuit of Happiness
Grand Austria Hotel
Dark Moon

Exciting news! My 2nd article at Kotaku has been published and its all about Pandemic Legacy! You can read about it here http://kotaku.com/the-great-board-game-pandemic-is-even-bett...

Also, I have released a game! Its called Gutsy and it was designed together with Susan Perkins and Barry Joseph from the American Museum of Natural History. Its my first card game and more details will be released once the boardgamegeek site is up. You can order the game here http://shop.amnh.org/a701/amnh-gutsy-card-game.html

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Push Your Luck Episode 66: Essen Top 7 and a new section!

Jon is back and we talk about our Top 7 anticipated games from the upcoming Essen convention! I also introduce a new section called Can't Stop the Sackson where my classmate Alexander Bevier and I discuss his thesis where he is writing a paper or a book about Sid Sackson, the designer of Acquire and many other games. Every episode, I will interview Alex and discuss what he has found out, researched and hopefully reveal to you more and more about Sid Sackson and his influence on the modern boardgame industry. If you want to chat with Alex, he can be found on twitter as @AlexanderBevier

Exciting news! My article at Kotaku has been published! It is about the Best 5 recent games you should be playing right now and you can find it here http://kotaku.com/five-new-board-games-you-should-play-1731648888
If you are visiting this website because of the article, thank you for reading and checking out my twitter and this page! I am very excited and hope to continue writing for Kotaku on a more regular basis!

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Push Your Luck podcast Ep 63 released!

Eric and Jon discuss the games that they are looking out for at GENCON 2015! Eric will also be at GENCON at the Asmodee Demo booths as part of the demo team! So if you see him there, go say hi! 

Games we discuss:

Dice City

Codenames

New York 1901

SHH

Forbidden Stars

Flick 'em Up!

The Village Crone

Tail Feathers

Discoveries

Dark Moon

Above and Below

Thunderbirds

Extra! Extra!

Trambahn

Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King

Between Two Cities

Magic: The Gathering – Arena of the Planeswalkers

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Push Your Luck Podcast Ep62: Spiel Des Jahres 2015 predictions!

Eric and Jon discusses the games recommended and nominated for the Spiel Des Jahres and Kennerspiel Des Jahres 2015 awards. They also discuss 2 games they have played recently which is Aquasphere and Queen's Architect. Also Jon has a small life question at the end. :)


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Thanks for listening and let us know what you think by giving us reviews on iTunes!

Push Your Luck Episode 61: Session Impressions

Push Your Luck Podcast Episode 61 is released! 

Jon and I discuss some games they have played recently.

Games covered are:
Deep Sea Adventure
XenoShyft Onslaught
Letter Tycoon
Soulfall
Dark Seas
Antike II
Wizard

VISIT our website www.pushurluckpodcast.com, follow @duckizz on twitter and the youtube channel youtube.com/duckizz for other random blabbering and video reviews - VISIT NOW!

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Push Your Luck Podcast Episode 47: Rage quit! RAWWWWRRRRR !

Eric and Jon discuss why people rage quit and games that may cause rage quit.

They also briefly talk about their gaming sessions of:
La Isla
Bruges: The City on the Zwin
How Many?

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Rate, review and subscribe to us on iTunes.

Also join and go to the guild for discussions on this podcast episode and topic.

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Thanks for listening!

Push Your Luck Podcast Episode 46: Recent cool games we have played!

Jonathan and I give our impressions on some of the games we have played recently.

You can listen to the podcast here
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Games covered are:
dead of winter
five tribes
mysterium (tajemnicze domostwo)
panamax
familienbande
khmer

After recording note:
I have since made my own copy of Khmer and played a lot of times with my class mates and they all loved it. Its such a simple, elegant yet holds incredible depth. A game with as much calculation as there is mind games in play.

Push Your Luck Podcast Episode 43: What we are expecting from GENCON 2014!

Jonathan and Eric what they are looking forward to from GENCON 2014 and why you should also look out for these games!

This could possibly be the last podcast before Eric leaves for New York so regular scheduling maybe paused for a while. Eric and Jon will resume recording as soon as possible! Provided Jonathan still wants to....

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Games covered:

Imperial Settlers

Samurai Spirit

Lords of Xidit

Fidelitas

Five Tribes

Tales & Games: The Hare and the Tortoise

Panamax

Colt Express

Abyss

Spirits of the Rice Paddy

Battle Merchants

Heroes Wanted

Warhammer 40,000: Conquest

The Battle at Kemble's Cascade

Castles of Mad King Ludwig

Subdivision

Night of the Grand Octopus

Push Your Luck Podcast Episode 42: Awards! Awards! So many awards!

Jonathan and I talk about some games they have played recently. Namely, Packet Row, Agora and Citrus.

We also discuss the recent announcements of the Spiel des Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jahres winners and also the Dicetower Awards 2013 and what they thought about the winners.

The auction for my boardgames is over and I am now busy contacting the winners to arrange the logistics. I am very humbled and grateful for the support and well wishes shown from this auction and would like to thank EACH and EVERYONE of you that have bid on my items so generously. I have been touched and pleasantly surprised by the congratulatory words and best wishes when I met some of you. 

Thank you everyone and I hope I won't let you all down! :D

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As usual, do subscribe to us on iTunes and PLEASE rate and review us! This will help others find our podcast as well. Also do leave us feedback either on this post or via our guild on BGG. I am sure we cannot be so perfect such that there are no complaints so do talk to us, I promise we don't bite :P

Follow me on twitter @duckizz and also my youtube channel (search duckizz).

See you in 2 weeks!

Push Your Luck Podcast Episode 41: Our 2014 Spiel and Kennerspiel des Jahres predictions

Eric and Jonathan discuss the nominations and recommended list for this year's Spiel and Kennerspiel des Jahres awards and also predict who will win them!

As usual, to comment about our podcasts, leave us reviews and rate us on iTunes. Or join our guild on boardgamegeek for more information.

Also Eric's auction to sell his boardgames to raise funds for his tuition will have 1 final day tomorrow!
If you have not bid, what are you waiting for ? Check it out here
http://bgg.cc/geeklist/174904/liquidating-my-games-fund-my-studies-bid-generousl

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Push Your Luck Podcast Episode 40: Top 7 Spiel Des Jahres winners

As the announcement of the winner for the 2014 Spiel Des Jahres awards is coming soon, Jonathan and Eric discuss and list their Top 7 previous Spiel Des Jahres winners over the years.

Eric is also currently liquidating his board game collection to fund his graduate studies in Game Design at NYU! If you can, please bid generously and help him out. For list of items he is auctioning off and details about his studies, visit
http://bgg.cc/geeklist/174904/liquidating-my-games-to-fund-my-studies-bid-genero

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Push Your Luck Podcast Episode 37: Another Hidden Gem!

Eric and Jonathan talk about some games they have played recently and talk about another hidden gem in their collections which people should try if they had not.

Games talked about - Um Reifenbreite, Mad City, Card City, Legendary Paint the Town Red, Heroscape, Milestones and Ristorante Italia.

Take a listen here:

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as usual, leave us comments here, follow me on twitter @duckizz and join our guild on Boardgamegeek!

Thanks!

Push Your Luck Podcast Episode 29: Chatting with the ladies in our gaming group

Hi everyone, this episode is a mp3 version of our Google Hangout on air that I arranged with 3 ladies from my gaming group. I wanted to find out more about them and also what games they like, why they like to board game and also any suggestions they may have to attract more ladies into gaming. If you have already seen the youtube video, then this will be more or less the same.

If you have not, take a listen and I hope it will be interesting for you (you can subscribe to iTunes and get the latest episode).

I will also be having another interview session with 2 or 3 other ladies that I play boardgames with. It will be on the 20th at 930PM Singapore time. You can join in here
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cvssjqmsdq14hh1o5nt7oa935pg

Interested to ask the ladies some questions? Feel free to post your comments here.

Thanks for listening!

Push Your Luck Podcast Episode 28: Our top games, surprises and disappointments from 2013!

Jonathan and Eric shares their Top 5 best games of 2013, Top 3 disappointments and Top 3 surprises. The winner of the anniversary contest is also announced! You can get the podcast by subscribing to our feed here
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4:27 - Top 3 Surprises for 2013

Jon

1: Augustus

2: Coal Baron

3: Little Prince Make me a Planet

Eric

1: Coconuts

2: Augustus

3: The Duke

18:46 - Top 3 Disappointments for 2013

Jon

1: Amerigo

2: World of Tanks Rush

3: Mascarade

Eric

1: Bremerhaven

2: Global Mogul

3: Say Bye to the Villains

37:49 - Top 5 games of 2013

Jon

1: Lewis and Clark

2: Coconuts

3: Russian Railroads

4: Bruges

5: Viticulture

Eric

1: Russian Railroads

2: Lewis & Clark

3: Bruxelles 1893

4: The Duke

5: Nauticus

1:15:15 - Our anniversary contest winner! - Grace Lin!

Push Your Luck Podcast is now an AWESOME member of The DiceTower Network. Do check out the other amazing podcasts in the network.

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Do you agree with us? Disagree with us?
If so, leave us comments and questions at our guild on Boardgamegeek and review and rate us on iTunes.
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Push Your Luck Podcast Episode 28: My my look how we have GROWN!

Jonathan and Eric talks about their first year in podcasting, the lessons learnt, friends they have met and what they are looking forward to 2014!

Contest details are also inside so sign up if you want to win prizes!

Push Your Luck Podcast is very proud to welcome their first sponsor, Hobbygamesmart.com. For a wide variety of games and at affordable prices, do check out their site and let them know Push Your Luck sent you!

Push Your Luck Podcast is now an AWESOME member of The DiceTower Network :P Do check out the other amazing podcasts in the network.

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Push Your Luck Podcast Episode 25: Feld-stravaganza!!!

Joel Eddy joins Eric and Jonathan as they talk about Stefan Feld and his 4 releases for 2013. They chat about each of them and how they are ranked against each other. 3:34 - Bora Bora 21:43 - Rialto 34:34 - Bruges 47:18 - Amerigo Push Your Luck Podcast is now a proud member of The DiceTower Network. Do check out the other amazing podcasts in the network. Also check out the Jack Vasel Memorial Fund Auction on Boardgamegeek! Leave us comments and questions at our guild on Boardgamegeek and leave us a review on iTunes. Do visit our website www.pushurluckpodcast.com where we will have video and written reviews, session reports and other nifty posts! subscribe to it here http://feeds.feedburner.com/PushUrLuckPodcastpulp Thanks!

Push Your Luck Podcast Episode 24: Essen 2013 Impressions

Eric and Jonathan are joined with Michael Fox from Little Metal Dog show and talk about Essen 2013. Jonathan and Michael share what they have seen and share tips and what they felt was Game of the Con. Remember to check out KEEP RUNNING, Michael’s latest game now on Kickstarter Push Your Luck Podcast is now a proud member of The DiceTower Network. Do check out the other amazing podcasts in the network. Leave us comments and questions at our guild on Boardgamegeek and leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks! Subscribe here http://feeds.feedburner.com/PushUrLuckPodcastpulp