Issue 12 of Ares Magazine (January 1982) featured a complete board game called Star Trader, The Game of Intestellar Exploitation and Piracy. The board looks really neat.
Science Fiction
Ares Magazine 11 – Albion Land of Faerie
The internet archive has a digital copy of the old SPI science fiction and fantasy gaming magazine Ares. Issue #11 features a full board game called “Albion Land of Faerie.”
Steve Jackson’s Illuminati Playtest
Steve Jackson Games is in the process of developing a new edition of the classic game Illuminati. You can get the new Illuminati playtest files here.
Pushpins Global Conspiracy Game
Pushpins is a free print-and-play game of global conspiracy. Form the author’s description:
People talk about a global conspiracy, about the powers that own the world, but they don’t seem to grasp just how big the world is. How remote parts of the world are. And this isn’t just like, people living in the mountains. We’re talking about places like, Idaho. And Nebraska. There’s a lot of nothing going on over there, and do you think the conspiracies that run the world care about it?
Well, you know they do.
Because taking care of these boring places is your job.
Push-Pins needs a space players can play, which can be a whiteboard or corkboard. Players don’t need to shuffle, or even play at the same time as one another. Games can take place over a day in an office, for example, or play out quickly in one spot.
Mine Shaft Gap Board Game
Mine Shaft Gap is a free print-and-play board game about a battle for resources on a planetoid. The game tries to channel the feeling of the classic MetaGaming or Task Force games.