2013 Dice Tower Award Winners Announced

  The 2013 Dice Tower Award winners were announced today over at The Dice Tower.  Game of the Year was awarded to Caverna (with Bruges, Trains, Concordia, Eldritch Horror, Freedom: The Underground Railroad, Forbidden Desert, Pathfinder: Adventure Card Game, Rampage, and Russian Railroads also being nominated).  You can visit the site here to view all the nominees and winners in a broad variety of categories including: Best Game Theming, Most Innovative Game, Best Small Publisher, Best Artwork, along with many others - including Best Cooperative Game - a new category this year. The Dice Tower Awards has been around since 2007 and is comprised, presently, of a panel of over 50 people in the board game industry.  Ironically, Tom Vasel (owner of The Dice Tower) only provides tie-breaking votes.  "It's important to me that people realize this is not about me.  The purpose of these awards are to recognize the best-of-the-best as seen by those in the industry - publishers, designers, and other podcasters/reviewers" There will be a podcast and video released tomorrow (Tuesday 7/7/2014) that will be focused on the awards.  You can visit The Dice Tower for more information. Tom had the following to say:  "In a year filled with so many good games that voting was surprisingly tough, we are happy to present a slate of unique, entertaining games that will appeal to gamers everywhere!"