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Heavy Cardboard about Pax Transhumanity and Crusader Kings
The podcast Heavy Cardboard talks about both Pax Transhumanity and Crusader Kings the board game in episode 145, alongside a lot of other yummy stuff! If you want to skip ahead, the Crusader bit starts at 0:23:46 and the Transhumanity review starts at 1:14:33! Enjoy! And thanks to Heavy Cardboard, go in and give them a follow! Read more...
TWO nominations for the 2020 Goblin Magnifico Award!
Guess how proud we were when we found out we are nominated for the 2020 Goblin Magnifico Award for not only one of our games, but TWO: Bios: Origins 2nd edition and Pax: Transhumanity. The winner will be announced in April, so keep your fingers crossed for us!   Read more...
Tabletop Game Expo cancelled!
We just got word that the Tabletop Game Expo is indeed cancelled due to the Corona virus. We are sorry to miss our chance to hang out with all you beautiful groovy people, but of course we understand and support the decision of putting safety first! There will be more chances to hang out together soon! Be safe out there until then!   Read more...
Corona virus threatens the Tabletop Game Expo!
Tabletop Game Expo wrote on their Facebook page: "Important message: Sweden's center for disease control advised the government to ban gatherings of 500 people or more. This affects Tabletop Game Expo 2020, whose current estimate is 3000 visitors. We're investigating if we need to shut down, postpone or go ahead. Next week, at the latest, we'll publish our decision. Until then, all work on Expo is on hold." We´ll keep you posted with more info as soon as we hear anything! Fingers crossed, we´ll get the all clear and see... Read more...
We´re going to Japan!
Or our game is, anyway! Very exciting news! Bios: Origins 2 (with a new Japanese translation by Kondo Hirotsugu) will be featured at Game Market in Japan! Moshi, moshi! Arigato!  Read more...
Teaching Evolution Through Board Games!
What better way to learn about evolution than to play it? Read about how Bio:s Megafauna 2 is used as a teaching tool in Jason Lee Brown´s text Teaching Evolution Through Board Games on Darwin´s Game Night! We are very honored and proud over this! Read more...
Nomination for Expert Game Award!
We are very proud to announce that we are nominated for the 2019 Expert Game Award with Pax Transhumanity! In April we will have more news to how it went, keep your fingers crossed for us! Read more...
"High Frontier 4 All" development process
During the last couple of months the development team together with the design team has worked hard to get all components in High Frontier 4 All ready. This is a complex space exploration game so both teams have had a great challange to get this fourth edition ready for mass production. The following components are now done and are in the process of spotchecking: the final versions of all cards in core game and both modules (Terawatt and Colonization) the final version of the map board showing the solar system.... Read more...
Pax Transhumanity 3p Teaching & Play-through by Heavy Cardboard
Are you interested in learning how to play Pax Transhumanity? On January 16th Edward, from Heavy Cardboard did a great how to play video, see following link  Hope you enjoy :) Read more...
Shipping nr 7
Funagain has now packed and started  shipping 1,460 Ion Games parcels. Once the games are shipped out they send out USP tracking number to backers and pre-order customers. Aimplify works with DHL and once the games are shipped out they send DHL tracking number do customer. Note, the DHL information sent by Aimplify is in German. Read more...
Shipping update nr 6 + card count Bios:Origins
On Friday November 22nd I wrote a blog post with a section saying; "Since there will not be much news in the shipping situation during the weekend, there will not be any new update until Monday.  If you during the weekend have specific questions then do send us an email at info@iongamedesign.com " However, unfortunately I forgot to make it viable on our website. I am really sorry for the mistake that was just a human error, which of course should not have happened. I promised updates until backers and... Read more...
Shipping nr 5
After some delays shipping to all areas except North America is ongoing. Our fulfillment center  Funagain in US has packed all 820 games but is holding the games until the whole shipping cost is paid. The transfer has been made, however, Fuagain would want to see the whole payment in their account. New estimation for backer in USA and Canada ist that  shipping will  beginning of next week. Read more...