Wizards of the Coast has announced plans to support its Avalon Hill board games with a sanctioned organized play program at retail. The new prototype program, called "Risk 2210 AD ... Read More

There are no current plans to release it in the United States, but European players are fighting goblins, trolls, and ogres in the new Dungeons and Dragons board game. According to ... Read More

Rio Grande Games, the English-language publisher of some of the best strategy and family board games in the world, recently announced its new game schedule for the coming months. Mammoth Hunters ... Read More

Today in Reno, Nevada, Harrah's Hotel-Casino will be home to a life-size Monopoly board. Players will roll giant dice to move actors -- dressed as the tokens -- around the ... Read More

The second entry in Face2Face Games' Sid Sackson Signature Series (that's a lot of alliteration), the word game BuyWord is scheduled for publication in early 2004. To the best of ... Read More

I'm the Boss (the reprint of Kohle, Kies & Knete -- a fantastic deal-making game) should be available soon. Published by Face2Face Games, this edition of a classic Sid Sackson ... Read More

WizKids has announced a "massive redesign" of their popular Mage Knight collectible miniatures game. Here's the company's official press release: The game that started the hottest trend in the gaming world ... Read More

In Big Top, an upcoming card game from APE Games, players will meet various circus acts, including a sword swallower, the bearded lady, trapeze artists and clowns. Big Top is for ... Read More

Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. Witches, fear, hallucinations. That's the setting for Anathema, an upcoming card game from APE (Advanced Primate Entertainment) Games. Anathema is for 2 to 4 players, and takes about ... Read More

Arrrr! The Golden Age of Piracy comes to life in Winds of Plunder, an upcoming game recently announced by GMT Games. Designed by Alan R. Newman (Tin Soldiers), will be ... Read More

Werner Von Croy, Lara Croft's old mentor, has been murdered -- and she's a prime suspect. In the new Tomb Raider board game, available in Europe but not yet (to ... Read More

Dork Tower is a great comic (in fact, it's my favorite game-related comic) about characters who love to play games of all types. Steve Jackson Games has announced plans to ... Read More

In Spooks, an upcoming card game from Steve Jackson Games, players compete to be the first to escape a haunted house. According to the SJG web site, the game features five ... Read More

John Kovalic, the artist responsible for Dork Tower, designed a new board game based on the popular public radio show "Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?" The game, published by Out of ... Read More

Hasbro, the company that owns Milton Bradley, Parker Brothers, Wizards of the Coast and Avalon Hill, recently reported a strong second quarter of 2003. According to a company press release, ... Read More

If you enjoy Clue or other deduction games, Mystery of the Abbey is a game to try. Brother Adelmo has been killed, and you're one of the monks trying to ... Read More

Creepy Freaks is the latest game announced by WizKids, the publisher of HeroClix, Mage Knight, MechWarrior and Shadowrun: Duels. In Creepy Freaks, designed for a younger audience than previous WizKids ... Read More

Milton Bradley / Hasbro has published three new games -- Mission Command: Land, Mission Command: Sea, and Mission Command: Air. All three games are updated versions of previous MB games. MC: ... Read More

The Self-Esteem Game, a board game designed by a psychologist from South Bend, Indiana, will be published for the 2004 holiday season by Patch Products, according to this article in ... Read More

Whose Memory was right? Apparently, neither company wanted to find out in court, so Hasbro and Kellogg's announced recently that they reached a settlement regarding Hasbro's Memory trademark. "We have ... Read More

Hasbro announced recently that Frank Bifulco has joined the organization as President of its U.S. Games Unit. According to a Hasbro press release, Bifulco will have day-to-day responsibility for the ... Read More

In between articles about bacteriophages, the vascular endothelial growth factor gene, and the globular cluster M4, the most recent issue of Science News includes an article entitled Improving the Odds ... Read More

Scrabble has always inspired devoted players, a fact well documented in the absolutely wonderful book Word Freak. Now a behind-the-scenes documentary has been produced. Scrabylon is a 50-minute film by ... Read More

A six-foot tall version of Operation, the children's game in which you try to remove various body parts (funny bone, bread basket, etc.) from a patient without activating a buzzer, ... Read More

Hasbro's celebrity Simon eBay charity auction has ended, and the company announced that the Simon game's 25th anniversary items drew nearly 5,000 bids. All proceeds from the auction will go ... Read More

A version of the 1962 naval war strategy game Broadside, published by Milton Bradley, is now available as a game for Palm Pilot PDAs. It's also available for the Pocket ... Read More

This isn't a good week for the peaceful reputation of board games. First, a Parcheesi game between two inmates turned deadly. Now, a report from Vancouver-area investigators has determined that ... Read More

In Senjutsu, an abstract version of a clan vs. clan war involving feudal Japanese Samurai, each player has three generals and seven regulars. These 10 warriors are made of customizable ... Read More

Fantasy Flight Games has released three new board games: Alanteon, a 2-player game designed by Reiner Knizia (Lost Cities, Through the Desert); Magdar, a game for 2-4 players designed by ... Read More

I've never thought of Parcheesi as a particularly violent game. But I might have to rethink my position after reading an article about the consequences of a game between two ... Read More

Bobby Knight, he of the oft-displayed foul temper, Rick Pitino, a championship-winning coach, and Denny Crum, the former head coach at Lousiville, have all played Michael Montgomery's basketball board game ... Read More

A new board game based on the popular A Series of Unfortunate Events books by Lemony Snicket is being developed. About 8 million of the books have been sold to ... Read More

Eight Foot Llama, publishers of the off-beat card games Who Stole Ed's Pants? and Monkeys on the Moon -- both of which appeared on the 2003 Games Magazine Games 100 ... Read More

Uberplay Entertainment announced recently that it will publish the English-language edition of The Bridges of Shangri-La, a new game from Leo Colovini (designer of Caratagena, Clans and Doge). Players compete ... Read More

The award-winning and best-selling (more than 1.5 million copies worldwide) game Carcassonne will be reworked by designer Klaus-Jurgen Wrede and Inspiration Games and released as The Ark of the Covenant. ... Read More

As the long July 4 weekend comes to an end for Americans, thousands of families have spent time over the past 72 hours playing party games like Pictionary and Taboo. ... Read More

China Moon, designed by Bruno Faidutti (Mystery of the Abbey, Citadels, Dragon's Gold), is a new children's game for 3 to 5 players. Teams of frogs, who have decided to ... Read More

Vigilante justice rules the day in Lawless!, a new card game designed by Bruno Cathala (who also designed Tony & Tino and War & Sheep, and co-designed Queen's Necklace with ... Read More

Formula De, which may be the world's most popular auto racing board game, is now available in a "mini" edition. It's smaller and simpler than the full game, a way ... Read More

Emerging from the pack of more than 50 entries, and standing out above the other 13 finalists, Assembly Line has won the 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition. Designed by ... Read More

Out of the Box Publishing has announced two new upcoming games, both due out in the third quarter (July through September) of 2003: Balancing Aliens and Columns. The company also ... Read More

What does Clue have in common with the cult classic movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show? Well, not much on the surface. But the 1985 film Clue, based on the ... Read More

Mattel recently announced an exclusive agreement to publish, distribute and market the DVD-based movie board game Scene It?, which I've given 4.5 stars out of 5, and which I believe ... Read More

I've never played a board game that has a set time limit, like Mattel's new Break the Safe has. Players are given 30 minutes to work together to infiltrate the ... Read More

Blokus, one of my favorite new abstract games, is now available for play on Palm Pilots. Players compete to lay down as many of their Tetris-like pieces as possible before ... Read More

Mattel has three new games out soon, all family games with comic book themes. The first is the Batman Gotham City Mystery Game, in which players take on the roles ... Read More

In honor of July 4, Independence Day in the United States, here's a look at some board games set in the American Revolution, games with patriotic American themes, and games ... Read More

Battle Ball, a futuristic take on American football from Hasbro, is becoming available in stores around the country. Other new and upcoming games include the Trading Spaces game, the Real ... Read More

Chris Brua was in Columbus, Ohio, for this year's Origins game convention, and he's filed this report from Origins 2003. Read about Magdar (each player sends two dwarves underground to ... Read More