Japan Boardgame Prize 2008

Wie Verhext! has won the 2008 Japan Boardgame Prize. From now on the award will no longer be awarded in four categories, but just one. A special prize will follow for best Beginner / Family Game.

As d'Or 2009

The 2009 As d'Or (France) goes to Dixit. Agricola gets a special jury prize and Chateau Roquefort wins the As d'Or for Children's Games.

IAGO Hall of Fame

International Abstract Games Organization

From the IAGO website:

"The IAGO Hall of Fame is the place where IAGO honors everything historically significant that involves abstract strategy games. Inductees into the IAGO Hall of Fame are selected by the IAGO Standards Committee based on their historical significance and influence. Their historical significance and influence involves things such as regional and global popularity, longevity, and innovations in play mechanics that spawned entirely new classes of abstract strategy games. In the future, categories for induction will be expanded to cover more than games."

• Checkers
  
• Chess
  
• Go
  
• Gomoku
  
• Hex
  
• Hnefatafl
  
• Nine Man Morris
  
• Oware
  
• Shogi
  
• Xiangqi
  

Nominees for the As d'Or

The finalists for this years As d'Or / Jeu de l'Année:

Agricola

Beppo der Bock

Chateau Roquefort

Dixit

Dominion

Kaleidos

Jamaica

Mow

Pandemic

Tzaar

Tric Trac d'or 2008

Another win for Agricola. The 2008 Tric Trac d'Or goes to the hit game. Pandemic wins the Tric Trac d'Argent (2nd place) and Race for the Galaxy the Tric Trac de Bronze (3rd).

Årets Spill 2008

The winners for the 2008 Årets Spill (Norwegian Game of the Year) are:

Best Family Game: Ubongo
Best Party Game: A-å
Best Children’s Game: Chateau Roquefort

2008 Tric Trac d’Or Nominees

Nominees for the 2008 Tric Trac d’Or:

Agricola
Amyitis
Brass
In the Year of the Dragon
Jamaica
Kahmaté
Metropolys
Pandemic
Race for the Galaxy
Stone Age

2008 Golden Geek Winners

At BGG.con the Golden Geek Winners for 2008 were announced:

Game of the Year: Agricola
Gamer's Game: Agricola
2-Player Game: Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage
Card Game: Race for the Galaxy
Family Game: Thebes
Children's Game: Chateau Roquefort
Party Game: Say Anything
Wargame: Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage
Artwork/Presentation: Jamaica

Juego del Año 2008: Agricola

Agricola has won the 2008 Juego del Año, the Spanish game award.

No more Schweizer Spielepreis?

According to this thread on BGG: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/354608. No more Schweizer Spielepreis?

a la carte 2008: Race for the Galaxy

Race for the Galaxy has won Fairplay's à la carte Award for Best Cardgame.

1. Race for the Galaxy
2. Wie Verhext!
3. Felix: The Cat in the Sack
4. Kakerlakensalat
5. Ticket to Ride: Cardgame
6. Palastgeflüster
7. Handelsfürsten
8. Ziegen Kriegen

NSP 2008: Cuba

Cuba has won the Nederlandse Spellenprijs 2008. The game of Michael Rieneck and Stefan Stadler is published in Dutch by The Game Master.

1. Cuba
2. Yspahan
3. Burgers' Zoo (Zooloretto)
4. League of Six
5. Voor de Wind (Before the Wind)
6. Thebes
7. TZAAR

IGA 2008: Agricola & 1960

Agricola wins the International Gamers Award in the Multiplayer category. In the Two Player category, the award goes to 1960: The Making of the President.

DSP 2008: Agricola

No big surprise here, Agricola has won the Deutscher Spiele Preis.

1 Agricola
2 Stone Age
3 Cuba
4 In the Year of the Dragon
5 Tribune
6 Hamburgum
7 Galaxy Trucker
8 Keltis
9 Witch's Brew
10 Metropolys

Children's Game: Wer War's?

Essener Feder: Jamaica

JogoEu User's Game

JogoEu User's Game - Portugal - since 2008

JogoEu User's Game (or J.U.G.) is an award given bij the users of the JogoEu website. Awarded in September.

2009 Dominion
2008 Agricola


Thanks to Carlos Abrunhosa!

Premio Jugamos Tod@s

Premio Jugamos Tod@s - Spain - since 2007










Awarded in October for the best Spanish game design.

Premio Jugamos Tod@s

2007 Pròxima Obertura

Updates

• Australian Game of the Year 2007: Zooloretto
• Bruno Faidutti's GotY 2008: Age of Empires III
• Charles S. Roberts Awards 2008
• Spiel der Spiele (Austria) 2008: Marrakech / Suleika

Nominees for the 2008 International Gamers Awards

Historical Simulations

1914 Twlight in the East
Asia Engulfed
ASL Starter Kit #3
Case Blue
Combat Commander: Mediterranean
Corps Command: Totensonntag
Glory III
Marne 1918: Freidensturm
Napoleon's Triumph
Talavera
Tide of Iron
World at War: Eisenbach Gap

General Strategy Games - Multi Player category

Agricola
Brass
Hamburgum
In the Year of the Dragon
Kingsburg
Pandemic
Race for the Galaxy
Stone Age
Tinner's Trail
Tribune

General Strategy Games - 2 Player category

1960: The Making of the President
Cold War: CIA vs. KGB
Power & Weakness
Perry Rhodan: Die Kosmische Hanse
Tzaar

http://www.internationalgamersawards.net/

Spiel des Jahres for Knizia

Reiner Knizia takes the double this year: Spiel des Jahres and Kinderspiel des Jahres!

Spiel des Jahres 2008: Keltis

Kinderspiel des Jahres 2008: Wer war's

Jogo do Ano 2007

The Jogo do Ano 2007 of Spiel Portugal goes to Martin Wallace for Brass.

Updates

Updates:

2007 Meeples Choice
2008 UK Games Expo (almost)
2008 Boardgames Australia

The nominees for the Kinderspiel des Jahres 2008 are:

Didi Dotter
Capt´n Sharky - Abenteuer auf der Schatzinsel
Wer war's
Ghost Hunters
Ghost Hunters

Recommended games:

Farben ringsum
Kleiner Teddy
Pino Sortino
Pingo Tour
Die kleinen Regentropfen
Lauras erste Übernachtung
Alles Tomate
RattleSnake
Animalogic
Wilde Wikinger

The nominees for the Spiel des Jahres 2008 are:

Marrakech
Keltis
Witch's Brew
Blox
Stone Age

This year another special award is given. Sonderpreis Komplexes Spiel goes to Agricola.

Recommended games:

Kakerlakensalat
Penguin
Big Points
The Hanging Gardens
Wicked Witches Way
Lascaux
Jamaica
Linq
TZAAR
Metropolys
Galaxy Trucker
In the Year of the Dragon

Gra Roku - Gamers Choice

Gra roku - Poland - since 2004









- Game of the Year (2004)
- Game of the Year - Polish Design (2007)
- Wyróznienie Graczy (Gamer's Choice) (2008)

Wyróznienie Graczy

2009 Agricola
2008 Puerto Rico

Thanks to Przemyslaw!

Gra Roku 2008

The 2008 Gra Roku winners have been announced. The Polish Game of the Year 2008 is Puerto Rico.

A new category was added this year: the Gamers Choice / Wyróznienie Graczy and it seems the Polish Design categroy has been dropped.

Wyróznienie Graczy:

1. Puerto Rico
2. Euphrates & Tigris
3. Ticket to Ride
4. Blokus
5. Pillars of Earth

Thanks to Przemyslaw!