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2008 In Games
This page lists board game, board and card games, Wargaming, wargames, Miniature wargaming, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2008. For video games, see 2008 in video gaming. Games released or invented in 2008 Game awards given in 2008 *Spiel des Jahres: ''Keltis'' *Spiel des Jahres special prize for Best complex game: ''Agricola (board game), Agricola'' *Kinderspiel des Jahres: ''Wer war’s?'' *Mensa Select: ''AmuseAmaze'', ''Eye Know (game), Eye Know'', ''Jumbulaya'', ''Pixel'', ''Tiki Topple'' *''Games (magazine), Games'': ''TZAAR, Tzaar'' * ''Agricola'' won the Spiel Portugal Jogo do Ano. Significant games-related events in 2008 *Cranium, Inc. purchased by Hasbro for United States dollar, US$77.5 million. Deaths See also *List of game manufacturers *2008 in video gaming *2008 in chess *2008 in darts References {{reflist 2008, Games Games by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Board Game
Board games are tabletop games that typically use . These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well. Many board games feature a competition between two or more players. To show a few examples: in checkers (British English name 'draughts'), a player wins by capturing all opposing pieces, while Eurogames often end with a calculation of final scores. '' Pandemic'' is a cooperative game where players all win or lose as a team, and peg solitaire is a puzzle for one person. There are many varieties of board games. Their representation of real-life situations can range from having no inherent theme, such as checkers, to having a specific theme and narrative, such as ''Cluedo''. Rules can range from the very simple, such as in snakes and ladders; to deeply complex, as in ''Advanced Squad Leader''. Play components now often include custom figures or shaped counters, and distin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cult
The Cult are an English rock band formed in 1983 in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Before settling on their current name in January 1984, the band performed under the name Death Cult, which was an evolution of the name of lead singer Ian Astbury's previous band Southern Death Cult. They gained a dedicated following in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s as a post-punk/gothic rock band, with singles such as "She Sells Sanctuary", before breaking into the mainstream in the United States in the late 1980s establishing themselves as a hard rock band with singles such as "Love Removal Machine". Since its initial formation in 1983, the band have had various line-ups; the longest-serving members are Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy, who are also the band's two songwriters. The Cult's debut studio album ''Dreamtime'' was released in 1984 to moderate success, with its lead single "Spiritwalker" reaching No. 1 on the UK Indie Chart. Their second studio album, ''Love'' (1985), was also s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fields Of Fire (game)
Fields of Fire is a solitaire tactical wargame published by GMT Games that is designed to simulate various historical campaigns of wars between World War II and now. The game is card based with two decks used to play, including a terrain deck and action decks. You must build maps for missions and then use turn-based In video and other games, the passage of time must be handled in a way that players find fair and easy to understand. This is usually done in one of the two ways: real-time and turn-based. Real-time Real-time games have game time progress cont ... strategic actions. A single game consists of several missions from a historical campaign and each of these individual missions can be played in about 3 – 5 hours. It has won ''Games Magazine'''s award for Best New Historical Simulation Game in their 2010 '' Games 100'' issue. According to the manufacturer, :This game is based on three actual campaigns experienced by units of the 9th US Infantry (Regiment) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eye Know (game)
''Eye Know'' is a board game that includes images, trivia and betting. It was created by Paul Berton and George Sinclair and published in 2008 by Wiggles 3D. Paul Berton is the son of Canadian historian Pierre Berton. He was at the time the editor-in-chief of The London Free Press, and is now editor-in-chief of The Hamilton Spectator. George Sinclair is a technical writer. Gameplay One distinctive feature of this game is that it combines trivia with identifying images and betting. Another is that players select the topics of their trivia questions. Players try to identify images on cards on the board. Once a player has identified an image, they are asked a trivia question related to the image. The player selects the level of difficulty of their question and decides how many chips to bet on whether they know the answer. Different question levels pay out different amounts: true/false questions pay 1:1, multiple-choice questions pay 2:1 and open-ended questions pay 3:1. Awards Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominion (card Game)
''Dominion'' is a card game created by Donald X. Vaccarino and published by Rio Grande Games. It was the first deck-building game, and inspired a genre of games building on its central mechanic. Each player begins with a small deck of cards, which they improve by purchasing cards from a common supply that varies from game to game. Cards can help the player's deck function, impede their opponents, or provide victory points. As of December 2022, fifteen expansions to the original ''Dominion'' have been released. The game has a medieval theme with card names referencing pre-industrial, monarchical, and feudal social structures. Comparisons about the game's feel are often drawn with collectible card games such as ''Magic: The Gathering''. Vaccarino, however, denies that ''Magic'' was the inspiration. When ''Dominion'' was released at the Spiel game fair in 2008, it was voted "best game of the fair" by the ''Fairplay'' polls. The next year it won the Spiel des Jahres and Deutscher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay
''Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay'' is a role-playing game system with multiple source books set within the ''Warhammer 40,000'' universe. The first game using the system, ''Dark Heresy'', was created by Black Industries, which closed soon after the initial release. Official support by Fantasy Flight Games was discontinued in September 2016. The license was later acquired by Ulisses Spiele, who published a new game, '' Wrath & Glory'', in 2018. For Fantasy Flight developed material, the ''Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay'' system is explained and used with small differences in a series of independently playable games. Each has a different, narrow focus and multiple supporting books of its own: * In '' Dark Heresy'' (2008), the player characters are agents of the Inquisition. * In ''Rogue Trader'' (2009), the player characters are important members of ship crews in interstellar trade and exploration, often encountering xenos. * '' Deathwatch'' (2010), has a martial focus. The player char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Drop The Soap
''Don't Drop the Soap'' is a controversial prison-themed board game designed by art student John Sebelius as a 2006 class project at the Rhode Island School of Design. The game received criticism for its content, most notably for the game's treatment of prison rape. Sebelius also received notice for being the son of Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Magistrate Judge K. Gary Sebelius. The game officially went on sale on January 31, 2008 in Lawrence, Kansas and through Sebelius' personal website, and is considered to be similar to ''Monopoly'' in its gameplay. Gameplay The gameplay consists of six levels and can be played by up to three people. Users can choose to play as Sal "The Butcher", "Anferny", or "Wheelz", a disabled prisoner. The ultimate goal of the game is for the player to make parole without dropping the soap in the prison shower. If a prisoner "drops the soap", they must return to the beginning of the game. Reaction The National Prison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dōbutsu Shōgi
is a small shogi variant for young children. It was invented by :Professional shogi player#Women's professionals, women's professional shogi player , partially to attract young girls to the game. It is played on a 3×4 board and generally follows the rules of standard shogi, including Shogi#Drops, drops, except that pieces can only move one square at a time, and the king reaching the enemy camp as an additional way to win the game. The pieces are square, like children's blocks, have cartoon figures of the relevant animal rather than kanji to identify them, and often have dots on the sides and corners of the directions the pieces can move. The game has been marketed overseas as "Let's Catch the Lion!" Play Each player starts the game with four pieces: * A Lion (king) in the center of the home row ("forest") * A Giraffe (rook) to the right of the king * An Elephant (bishop) to the left of the king * A Chick (pawn) in front of the king Each moves as in standard shogi, but is l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dixit (card Game)
''Dixit'' (, , "he/she/it said"), is a French card game created by Jean-Louis Roubira, illustrated by Marie Cardouat, and published by Libellud. Using a deck of cards illustrated with dreamlike images, players select cards that match a title suggested by the "storyteller", and attempt to guess which card the "storyteller" selected. The game was introduced in 2008. ''Dixit'' won the 2010 Spiel des Jahres award. Gameplay Each player starts the game with six random cards. Players then take turns being the storyteller, who looks at the six images in their hand. From one of these, the storyteller makes up a sentence or phrase that might describe it and says it out loud, without showing the card to the other players. The storyteller's aim is to provide a description that is ambiguous enough that not all other players will recognize the card from their description, yet relevant enough that some will. Each other player then selects from among their own six cards the one that best ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awakening The Bear!
Awakening(s) may refer to: * Wakefulness, the state of being conscious Religion * Awakening (Finnish religious movement), a Lutheran movement in Finland * Great Awakening, several periods of Anglo-American Christian revival * Bodhi (''awakening''), a form of Buddhist spiritual enlightenment * Spiritual awakening, a religious experience Film and television Film * ''Awakening'' (1959 film), a Czechoslovak film starring Josef Kemr * ''Awakening'' (1981 film), a Chinese film starring Joan Chen * ''Awakenings'', a 1990 film directed by Penny Marshall, adapted from the book by Oliver Sacks (see below) * ''Awakening'' (1992 film) or ''Mary from Beijing'', a Hong Kong film * ''Awakening'' (1994 film), a Hong Kong film of 1994 * ''Awakening'' (2013 film), a Nigerian thriller Television episodes * "Awakening" (''Angel'') * "Awakening" (''The Outer Limits'') * "Awakening" (''Sanctuary'') * "Awakening" (''Star Trek: Enterprise'') * "Awakening" (''Stargate Universe'') * "Awakeni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discover The Secrets
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Discover may refer to: Art, entertainment, and media * ''Discover'' (album), a Cactus Jack album * ''Discover'' (magazine), an American science magazine Businesses and brands * DISCover, the ''Digital Interactive Systems Corporation'' * Discover Financial, an American financial services company operating Discover Bank, which offers checking accounts, credit cards, etc. ** Discover Card, a credit card brand Science and engineering * DSCOVR, an Earth observation satellite See also * Discovery (other) * Discoverer (other) Discoverer may refer to: Ships * MS World Discoverer, MS ''World Discoverer'' cruise ship wrecked off the Solomon Islands in 2000 * ''Discoverer Clear Leader'' double-hulled dynamically-positioned drillship (2007), sister ships are ** ''Discovere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CirKis
''CirKis'' is a piece placing board game, for two to four players, invented by Phil E. Orbanes and developed by Winning Moves Games USA in 2008. However, the game is no longer in production. The game is based on a Penrose tiling. Gameplay The game is played on a decagon In geometry, a decagon (from the Greek δέκα ''déka'' and γωνία ''gonía,'' "ten angles") is a ten-sided polygon or 10-gon.. The total sum of the interior angles of a simple decagon is 1440°. A self-intersecting ''regular decagon'' i ...al board, which contains the scoring pegs, and has a storage well for each of the four coloured sets of pieces. There are 80 total pieces divided into four identical sets of purple, red, green and yellow. The first player must place a piece inside, or touching, the center circle. Then, every piece played must touch the piece previously placed on the board. So, on a player's turn, they must place a piece so it touches the piece that was just played by the pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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