Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Ticket to Ride Pocket adds tracks to 1910 Expansion]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/24/ticket-to-ride-pocket-adds-tracks-to-1910-expansion/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/24/ticket-to-ride-pocket-adds-tracks-to-1910-expansion/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/24/ticket-to-ride-pocket-adds-tracks-to-1910-expansion/#comments Ticket to Ride Pocket keeps chugging along, adding the first paid expansion with Ticket to Ride Pocket: 1910. The $1 extension is based off the expansion for the board game (which is way more expensive), featuring three new modes and 35 new destinations.

The three new modes include: 1910 Classic, where there's no bonus for longest route, but for completing the most tickets. 1910 Mega has players receiving five routes -- instead of three -- and there are 69 destination tickets total, instead of 35. Finally, 1910 Cities only includes major city tickets, which means players need to grab the best routes as quickly as possible and can't focus on their "section of the country" like in the normal game.

The 1910 expansion comes shortly after the core $2 Ticket to Ride Pocket app, which was already a great port of the board game experience, received asynchronous play and had reached 350,000 sales earlier this month.

Gallery: Ticket to Ride (1910 Expansion)

JoystiqTicket to Ride Pocket adds tracks to 1910 Expansion originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>days-of-wonderiosiphonemobileticket-to-rideticket-to-ride-pocketFri, 24 Feb 2012 00:45:00 EST<![CDATA[Ticket to Ride Pocket updates, adds asynchronous mode]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/02/ticket-to-ride-pocket-updates-adds-asynchronous-mode/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/02/ticket-to-ride-pocket-updates-adds-asynchronous-mode/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/02/ticket-to-ride-pocket-updates-adds-asynchronous-mode/#comments Ticket to Ride Pocket has added a major update to the train baron simulator, allowing for asynchronous gameplay. Track-layers can now conduct up to four games at once using the new multiplayer mode. The game also now permits play across iPhones, iPod Touch and iPads in local mode across Bluetooth, WiFi and telegraph wire.

"This is the update Ticket to Ride players have been clamoring for since we released Ticket to Ride Pocket," said Days of Wonder founder and CEO Eric Hautemont.

The company also shared that sales of Ticket to Ride on iOS have reached 350,000, with over 27.6 million games played and a new one starting every four seconds. We were pretty impressed by the faithful translation of the board game when we played the $2 app over the holidays, which is also available in more expensive forms on iPad and XBLA.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>days-of-wonderiosiphonemobileticket-to-rideticket-to-ride-pocketThu, 02 Feb 2012 09:16:00 EST<![CDATA[Portabliss: Ticket to Ride Pocket (iOS)]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/26/portabliss-ticket-to-ride-pocket-ios/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/26/portabliss-ticket-to-ride-pocket-ios/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/26/portabliss-ticket-to-ride-pocket-ios/#comments Did you know that you can download handheld games now? That's amazingly convenient! The only inconvenient part of it is finding the right games to buy -- and that's where we come in, with our Portabliss column. In each installment, we'll tell you about a downloadable game on the iPhone, iPad, Android device, DSi, 3DS, PSP, etc. Today: Ticket to Ride Pocket.
Ticket to Ride Pocket for iPhone is the smallest way to play the award-winning Ticket to Ride board game without concern for dozens of little pieces getting lost. Publisher Days of Wonder did an impressive job making sure the quality of the original game and interface for this $1.99 App Store title lived up to the $50 boxed version.

Pocket's gameplay involves players laying track across the US to finish assigned destination cards. Routes can be as short as Toronto to Winnipeg, or transcontinental like New York to Los Angeles. The game is easy to understand and there's a detailed play-as-you-go tutorial the first time starting the game (and it is repeatable). Players draw colored cards to complete corresponding sections of rail toward the goal of finishing routes, with the player who creates the longest continuous rail scoring bonus points at the end.

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JoystiqPortabliss: Ticket to Ride Pocket (iOS) originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>days-of-wonderiosiphonemobileportablissticket-to-rideticket-to-ride-pocketMon, 26 Dec 2011 19:01:00 EST<![CDATA[Ticket to Ride Pocket for iPhone pulls into App Store]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/16/ticket-to-ride-pocket-for-iphone-pulls-into-app-store/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/16/ticket-to-ride-pocket-for-iphone-pulls-into-app-store/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/16/ticket-to-ride-pocket-for-iphone-pulls-into-app-store/#comments Ticket to Ride Pocket, the iPhone and iPod Touch version of the hit board game, is available now on the App Store for $0.99. The title supports solo play, local pass-and-play and local Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. Developer Days of Wonder has been upfront about what's missing from the iPhone version: online is out (because things like phone calls would break the experience, it says) and the level of detail and extra pieces on the Europe and Swiss map expansions don't lend themselves to the size of mobile screens.

The iPad version of Ticket to Ride has been available for a little while for $6.99. There's also the XBLA version for 800 MSP ($10), and the Europe and USA maps available as DLC.

Days of Wonder's adaptations have been incredibly faithful to the game, with the added value of not worrying about all those pesky pieces getting lost.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>days-of-wonderiosiphonemobileticket-to-rideticket-to-ride-pocketWed, 16 Nov 2011 10:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Ticket to Ride lays track on the iPad]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/19/ticket-to-ride-lays-track-on-the-ipad/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/19/ticket-to-ride-lays-track-on-the-ipad/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/19/ticket-to-ride-lays-track-on-the-ipad/#comments The emergence of digital distribution has been a wonderful thing for the tabletop gaming crowd. You can play Catan on your Xbox; Risk on your PC or iOS device. Now, Ticket to Ride is available on the iPad. In Ticket to Ride, players pull colored train cards, hoping to complete any number of designated train routes on a large game board -- the United States and Europe are among the most well-known maps.

The $6.99 iPad app (developed by Days of Wonder) looks to offer the full experience: You can play online; there's full Game Center support; and optional Europe, Switzerland and USA 1910 maps, available for $.99 each during this special launch week window, can be downloaded in-game.

Gallery: Ticket to Ride (iPad)

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Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service will feature two new titles this Wednesday!! Those with a clam-oring for aquatic morsels should note the appearance of Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown, an 800 whopper which features 60 new levels, couch co-op and the ability to jump out of the water and possibly over sharks!!!!

It's joined by the similarly priced Domino Master, a fairly self-explanatory domino game boasting Mexican Train, All 3s, All 5s, Straight Dominos and Bergen modes!!! We hope it doesn't fall down online!!!!!! LOL!!!

If neither of those float your cup of tea, there's a "1910" Ticket to Ride expansion (including 35 new destination tickets!!!) for 400!!!!!!!

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Without an explanation for missing its Wednesday debut, Ticket to Ride Europe just arrived on XBLA to pick up customers for the weekend.

The expansion to the digitized European board game costs 600 MS points ($7.50), which is far cheaper than the $30+ set in real life. We haven't downloaded the Europe expansion yet, but let us know if the red/orange color similarity issue found in Ticket to Ride has been fixed.

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Board game aficionados may have noticed that the Ticket to Ride: Europe DLC that was promised last week is nowhere to be seen. As the name implies, the Europe DLC allows would-be railway commissioners to lay tracks across Europe (though we see that Ireland is left out of the fun) and also adds a plethora of new features (ferries, tunnels!). Joystiq has contacted Playful Entertainment, the game's developer, but has received no answer thus far. Our conversation with Microsoft turned up similar results, so for now we remain in the dark. We'll post any new information once we hear it.

JoystiqTicket to Ride: Europe DLC is off the rails originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Update: It's finally here ... two days late.

Considering it was supposed to be released today, a few people have been asking us: What happened to XBLA's Ticket to Ride Europe expansion? We really don't know. We tried contacting developer Playful Entertainment and pretty much anyone we know at Microsoft. Nobody is talking. Our next try is to check with the butcher and the baker, but typically the liquor store guy always knows what's going on.

We'll be sure to update as soon as someone decides to explain why the train is late to the station.

Gallery: Ticket to Ride: Europe (XBLA)

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XBLA's excellent Ticket to Ride is ready to cross the Atlantic to receive the Europe expansion board next Wednesday. According to developer Playful Entertainment, the new continent will cost 600 MS points ($7.50) and add new gameplay elements like ferries, tunnels and train stations.

In the retail board game world, Ticket to Ride and Ticket to Ride: Europe -- which are sold separately -- would cost over $60, so we're not that sore about getting both on XBLA for $17.50. No word yet if the painfully close red/orange color blending will be fixed on the new board.

Gallery: Ticket to Ride: Europe (XBLA)

JoystiqTicket to Ride's Europe expansion boards next Wednesday originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>europe-expansionplayful-entertainmentticket-to-ridexblaXbox-360Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Next week, Ticket to Ride expands into Europe]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/23/next-week-ticket-to-ride-expands-into-europe/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/23/next-week-ticket-to-ride-expands-into-europe/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/23/next-week-ticket-to-ride-expands-into-europe/#commentsFiled under: ,

Stock up on coal and keep the train engine warm, because next Wednesday, July 30th Xbox Live Arcade board game Ticket to Ride will be hauling in a new expansion. The upcoming European expansion board DLC will give players a new board to choo-choo on and add new game elements to the mix including ferries, tunnels and train stations. All that excitement and more for (deep breath) only 600 Microsoft points. Yowzaz! We never knew that getting a European ticket to ride the rails would be so darn expensive. Darn the economy!

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Alan R. Moon's Ticket to Ride has only been out for four years, but it has picked up several prestigious board gaming awards, and is quickly becoming a popular "haul it out of the closet and get yer game on" addition to game night. Last week, the Xbox Live Arcade version was released, joining Catan, Carcassonne, and Lost Cities as games that have breached the digital divide. But how does it stack up against the freebie Java version, and the board game itself? Read on, ticket holders, and find out.

Gallery: Ticket to Ride

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JoystiqTicket to Ride vs. Ticket to Ride vs. Ticket to Ride originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>Board-GameDays-of-WonderMacPCTicket-To-RidexblaXbox-360Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST<![CDATA[X3F TV -- XBLA in Brief: Happy Tree Friends and Ticket to Ride]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/25/x3f-tv-xbla-in-brief-happy-tree-friends-and-ticket-to-ride/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/25/x3f-tv-xbla-in-brief-happy-tree-friends-and-ticket-to-ride/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/25/x3f-tv-xbla-in-brief-happy-tree-friends-and-ticket-to-ride/#commentsFiled under: ,

This week, XBLA in Brief takes on Happy Tree Friends and Ticket to Ride. One of them is a pretty good board game about building railroads. The other one is a weird game that doesn't really seem to take advantage of the cartoon upon which it's based. We'll let you figure out which one is which.

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JoystiqX3F TV -- XBLA in Brief: Happy Tree Friends and Ticket to Ride originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hey kids! It's Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday and that can only mean one thing. That's right, it's time for some new XBLA games. Huzzah! This week's releases are Happy Tree Friends False Alarm and Ticket to Ride. False Alarm has you guiding your favorite furry friends through various hazards, doing your best to keep them from being sliced, diced, burned, or otherwise mutilated. Ticket to Ride, on the other hand, is a board game in which you relive the spirit of expansion brought on by the advent of railroads. In other words, you build trains. It's more fun than it sounds. Both are available now for 800 MS Points each. Stay tuned for the next XBLA in Brief and we'll tell you whether or not they're worth the scratch.

Source - Happy Tree Friends False Alarm on Xbox.com
Source - Ticket to Ride on Xbox.com

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Yeah we know the post title is a bit needlesssly grim. Let's face it, we're going to still be getting some information about releases from the ESRB. And hopefully some publishers simply won't much care about putting their games up there early. Others like Playful Entertainment, publishers of Ticket to Ride, seem to still want their ratings to go up at the last minute (TtR releases this week).

However, if we're to believe that the publishers of the other two XBLA games on the list (Rocket Riot and Cribbage) also want their games to pop up at the last minute, we could be looking at the first hint of next week's releases. Or we could just be paranoid about this whole ESRB thing.

JoystiqESRB Watch: Swan Song Edition originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>cribbagemadden-09rocket-riotsilent-hill-5silent-hill-homecomingsoulcaliburivticket-to-ridexblaTue, 24 Jun 2008 18:00:00 EST<![CDATA[This Wednesday: Ticket to Ride and Happy Tree Friends ride onto XBLA]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/23/this-wednesday-ticket-to-ride-and-happy-tree-friends-ride-onto/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/23/this-wednesday-ticket-to-ride-and-happy-tree-friends-ride-onto/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/23/this-wednesday-ticket-to-ride-and-happy-tree-friends-ride-onto/#commentsFiled under:


"Spiel des jahres" 2004, Zug um Zug Ticket to Ride, is laying tracks and will be ready to pick up passengers from Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday. The game is the debut title from Vancouver-based Playful Entertainment and will cost 800 MS Points ($10). Ticket to Ride joins other German board-to-digital leapers, Catan and Carcassonne.

Also arriving this week is Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm, which aims to deliver ten levels of action-puzzle ultra violence. Happy Tree Friends costs 800 MS Points ($10) and is rated "M," obviously. Ticket to Ride is rated "E," by the way, unless you use the Vision cam ... then an "AO" happening is never far behind.

JoystiqThis Wednesday: Ticket to Ride and Happy Tree Friends ride onto XBLA originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This week's Xbox Live Arcade releases (yup, plural) will both make your inner violent self cheer with bloody enthusiasm and your inner train conductor toot with excitement, because both Happy Tree Friends False Alarm and Ticket to Ride are releasing this Wednesday, June 25th to an XBLA near you.

This XBLA twofer will be a nice mix of variety seeing that False Alarm is more along the lines of "cartoon violence adventure game of blood, guts and survival" whereas Ticket to Ride is more "card game of choo-choo traveling fun". Though, there is one similarity, both will available for purchase this Wednesday for 800 Microsoft points. Now go and practice the elite art of video game screenshot viewing using the elite screenshot galleries below.


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Y'know, this seems familiar. Hmm ... yes it does. While we already knew the solid release date of Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm (June 25), Ticket to Ride has been something of an unknown quantity, with not much information about the game having ever been relased to the press. However, the last time xbox.com pages appeared for unreleased XBLA games, they released exactly one week later. And with HTF:FA definitely hitting next week, we think we can say with some certainty that the electronic adaptation of the classic board game about building railroads will be hitting next week too. To tide you over until then, marvel at the screenshots below.



[Source, Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm]
[Source, Ticket to Ride]

[Thanks Jonah]

Joystiq Xbox.com: Ticket to Ride and Happy Tree Friends originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Back in March, we learned that the train based board game Ticket to Ride was chugging its way to the XBLA thanks to an entry on German's video game ratings board website. Now, thanks to the Gamerscore Blog, we get a few more details, albeit very little. Details including confirmation that Ticket to Ride will be releasing to the XBLA sometime this Summer, will allow for five player versus over Xbox Live, four player versus locally and will have Vision camera support. We're also told that Ticket to Ride provides "hours of family-friendly fun", but we think that's too subjective of a feature to mention.

JoystiqTicket to Ride XBLA details chug in originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 12 May 2008 15:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>playful-entertainmentticket-to-ridexblaMon, 12 May 2008 15:15:00 EST<![CDATA[Germans reveal Ticket to Ride, rate other XBLA games]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/21/germans-reveal-more-unannounced-XBLA-games/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/21/germans-reveal-more-unannounced-XBLA-games/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/21/germans-reveal-more-unannounced-XBLA-games/#commentsFiled under: ,


The German Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK) is no stranger to revealing unannounced titles and Xblah.net points out they've done it again. The highlight for fans of XBLA board game translations like Catan and Carcassonne is that Zug um Zug Ticket to Ride is ready to build railways on Xbox 360.

Other games rated by the USK are Penny Arcade's OtR-SPD, RooGoo, and Golf: Tee it Up! None of these ratings mean the games are coming out soon, but at least they're on their way.

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Having revealed games before, the German games rating board the USK is at it again, exposing previously unknown XBLA games. Shown over at xblah.net there are a myriad of titles across several genres, but the most stand out title would have to be a virtual version of the classic board-game Ticket To Ride in which players compete to build railroads across the countryside. From the sound of things it'll be similar to the conversion from the board game version of The Settlers of Catan and the XBLA version, Catan.

The other titles rated by the USK include the Penny Arcade XBLA game, the puzzler RooGoo, and a golf game entitled Golf: Tee it Up! Not only that, but there were also a few more games revealed by the American ratings board, the ESRB. Those two games were the ancient computer game Lode Runner, and the card game simulator Gin Rummy. None of these titles are official of course, but as with all games revealed in this fashion we must remember that rating's boards are not in the business of making of games, nor is having a game rated at all cheap. This is great news though, and should portend the approaching release of said titles. With such an ever expanding library of titles it seems XBLA is really coming into it's own, catering to a variety of demographics and hopefully with something for everyone.

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Every other week Scott Jon Siegel contributes Off the Grid, a column about card games, board games, and everything else non-digital.

"Non-digital games are awesome" is the line I usually insist upon in this column. But even awesome analog games have their faults: namely, if you don't have anyone to play with, you can't really play.

So, as an end-of-year treat, let's look back at the last year+ of games reviewed, and find some ways to play those suckers against some internet folk:

Settlers of Catan
I still haven't gotten around to reviewing Settlers, but I did chat with Brian Reynolds about the Xbox Live Arcade version of the game, which is probably the best bet for consistent, high-volume net play.

For those who don't have an Xbox 360 (like, well, me), Aso Brain Games hosts an unofficial, Java-based version of the game called Xplorers. After a free registration, the site allows users to player ranked and un-ranked versions against other users and bots, and features a number of expansion and additions to the base rules, which can be toggled on or off. Don't let the low-fi look of the site dissuade you; Xplorers is a well-put-together Settlers clone, with a solid interface and a consistent number of users online at any time.

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JoystiqOff the Grid: Long-distance gaming originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Every other week Scott Jon Siegel contributes Off the Grid, a column about card games, board games, and everything else non-digital.

Alan R. Moon's Ticket to Ride is widely considered to be one of the greatest board games of the last decade, but the reason for this may elude players at first. After all, Ticket to Ride is deceptively simplistic, with a weak fiction to justify a gameplay mechanic that's little more than connecting dots on a board. Players who invest in the experience, however, can quickly find that Moon's award-winning game is greater than the sum of its parts.

The original version of Ticket to Ride takes place in North America at the turn of the 20th century. Players compete to travel around the U.S. (and parts of Canada), claiming various train routes between cities in order to earn points. The game would like you to believe that it's a grand race across the country; even the back of the box states that the objective is to travel to the most cities by train in just 7 days. Unfortunately, the rules and gameplay don't really justify this grandiose storyline.

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JoystiqOff the Grid reviews Ticket to Ride originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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