My review of the quick card game Dune: Betrayal from Gale Force Nine is up at DuneNewsNet. Hopefully in future plays I won’t get betrayed! 🙂 Review – ‘Dune: Betrayal’ Card Game
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My review of the quick card game Dune: Betrayal from Gale Force Nine is up at DuneNewsNet. Hopefully in future plays I won’t get betrayed! 🙂 Review – ‘Dune: Betrayal’ Card Game
Read moreMy Dune: Imperium game pieces were kindly painted by my brother-in-law on my trip back to the US and they turned out great. My favorite is of course the Bene Gesserit blue! Here are close-ups of the Bene Gesserit, Guild, Sardaukar, Fremen, and Mentat miniatures:
Read moreDune: Imperium – Immortality is the game’s second expansion and ramps up the strategy with the addition of the Bene Tleilax / Tleilaxu, who focus on genetic engineering and research. This is my summary and review of the new elements based on two 2-player games (around 2 hours each) with both the Immortality and Rise of Ix expansions. I use the Dire Wolf Game Room app for the third automated player, House Hagal, that you need for a 2-player game. Bene Tleilax board The Bene Tleilax board has 2 tracks: a research track and Tleilaxu track. The research track represents your
Read moreDune Imperium: Rise of Ix The Dune Imperium: Rise of Ix (2022) expansion definitely changes the gameplay for this Dune board game. (See my review of Dune: Imperium for more on the original gameplay.) It took a second play of the expansion for me to get the hang of the new features and see their potential for new strategies, and there’s more to explore in future games. Here’s a brief review of the expansion and my experience playing it in a two-player game. The Rise of Ix expansion includes a CHOAM board overlay that sits on top of and expands
Read morePlease join me in celebrating my soon-to-be-released book by Palgrave titled Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women’s Liberation through Science Fiction at a virtual book launch on Monday, December 20 at 1pm PST / 4pm EST / 6pm BRT / 9pm GMT / 10pm CET. I will be joined in conversation with co-host Dr. Russ Sloan from Doc Sloan’s Science Fiction Station. Register on the event page or click below! This book is the first major study of female characters in Frank Herbert’s original Dune series and takes a historical approach to exploring the representation of the women of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. More information will
Read moreMy review of the Dune: A Game of Conquest and Diplomacy released in 2021 has been posted at Dune News Net, which is a site all about Dune, including the movies, books, and other materials in the expanded universe.
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