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Dungeons & Dragons: The Sundering 9 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
As part of a year-long Dungeons & Dragons event known as The Sundering, game publisher Wizards of the Coast announced recently that the first free-to-play D&D mobile game, Arena of War, will soon be a...
2013 World Boardgaming Championships 1 Aug 2013 | 09:47 pm
The 2013 World Boardgaming Championships are taking place right now in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. If you're there, or you plan to be there this weekend, keep an eye out for me -- I plan to attend on Fri...
Chuck Foley, Co-Inventor of Twister, Dead at 82 1 Aug 2013 | 12:15 am
Chuck Foley, co-inventor of the classic game Twister, passed away earlier this month. He was 82. Twister, a dexterity game which challenges players to use their entire body, became an instant hit soon...
Cheeky Monkey: A Great Press-Your-Luck Game 1 Aug 2013 | 12:06 am
I enjoy the press-your-luck style of games quite a bit. Games like Incan Gold, Can't Stop and Pig always seem to generate more than their fair share of excitement. Another great game in the category ...
National Scrabble Association Closes Doors 1 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
The National Scrabble Association is no more. The organization, originally formed in 1978 by game publisher Selchow & Righter -- the company which then owned the rights to the popular word game Scrabb...
Valuable Used Board Games 31 Jul 2013 | 12:48 pm
Many people who find an old copy of Monopoly hope they've hit the jackpot, that it will be worth thousands of dollars on eBay and will finance a nice vacation. Sadly, that's not often the case -- for ...
Lord of the Rings: Dice Building Game 31 Jul 2013 | 12:33 pm
I'm a big fan of Peter Jackson's first three Lord of the Rings movies (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ran on too long). One of the best side effects of those films has been the release of many grea...
2013 Spiel des Jahres Winner Announced 8 Jul 2013 | 12:07 pm
The card game Hanabi (designed by Antoine Bauza, published by Asmodée) has won the 2013 Spiel des Jahres, Germany's "Game of the Year" award and, I believe, the most significant game award. Bauza's pr...
Spiel des Jahres Predictions 6 Jul 2013 | 09:33 pm
On Monday, July 8, the winners of the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) and Kennerspiel des Jahres ("Expert" Game of the Year) awards will be announced at a ceremony in Germany. (Here are the three ...
Games to Play on the Road 1 Jul 2013 | 04:58 am
If you're traveling this summer, you may find yourself in a situation where you have no games nearby. (How you could let yourself get into such a situation is a story for another time...) If this happ...
