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I recently picked up a new podcast: The Dice Tower as I have been getting more and more into boardgaming of late and I wanted to learn more about the hobby I am returning to after so many years.

The podcast is produced by 2 Americans living in Korea Tom Vasel and Sam Healey. They post new episodes weekly. There are a number of regular segments each week many of which are contributed by other people in the gaming world. Moritz teaching us the German words for common gaming terms so we can feel comfortable playing Euro games was a real hoot!

The content includes in depth reviews, interviews with luminaries in the gaming industry, game comparisons, brief overviews, the infamous top ten lists gaming news and competitions. Did I mention the competitions, the current competition as I write this has a first prize of games to the value of 1500 US Dollars! Wow! I hope I win .

The tone of the podcast is light and funny with a real camaraderie between Sam and Tom that has them kidding around with each other a lot. Chuck Norris anyone? Both of the hosts really seem to know their stuff and they obviously play games a lot which helps. They appear to be quite well plugged in with the gaming industry as evidenced by the number of games they get sent to review and they also get reports from a number of the major North American and European games conventions.

I would recommend this podcast to anyone wanting to know more about the boardgaming hobby. 5 stars.