With the New York Toy Fair coming next week, WizKids is busy making announcements. Today they announced what I believe is a new genre, the puzzle building game. The series is called Connect with Pieces.
Leading entertainment conglomerate and game creator NECA/WizKids is taking puzzle gaming to a new level, today announcing Connect With Pieces™, an upcoming puzzle building platform and game combining strategy and challenge designed by Joel Weinshanker, president and COO at NECA and board game designer Mike Elliott.
“Our goal has been to drive innovation within the puzzle category,” said Weinshanker. “Puzzles have been a long-time popular past-time and we wanted to find ways to make them a little more dynamic and competitive, offering a fun yet challenging experience for puzzle gamers.”
While I would normally be skeptical, this is designed by Mike Elliot. He definitely has a lot of game design experience. While the Breaking Dawn puzzle won’t apply to most of us, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings themed puzzles should. They aren’t very expensive either, which may make it a fun weekend diversion. Take a look at the full Press Release for more details.
While not working as a Database Administrator, Keith Schleicher has been associated with Gaming Trend since 2003. While his love of video games started with the Telestar Alpha (a pong console with four different games), he trule started playing video games when he received the ill-fated TI-99/4A. While the Speech Synthesizer seemed to be the height of gaming, eventually a 286 AT computer running at 8/12 Hz and a CGA monitor would be his outlet for a while. Eventually he’d graduate to 386, 486, Pentium, and Athlon systems, building some of those systems while doing some hardware reviews and attending Comdex. With the release of the Dreamcast that started his conversion to the console world. Since then he has acquired an NES, SNES, PS2, PS3, PSP, GBA-SP, DS, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One S, Gamecube, Wii, Switch, and Oculus Quest 2. While not playing video games he enjoys bowling, reading, playing board games, listening to music, and watching movies and TV. He originally hails from Wisconsin but is now living in Michigan with his wife and sons.
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