Stuart R. Kaplan is the founder and chairman of U.S. Games Systems, the company which publishes the Mystery Rummy series, dozens of decks of standard playing cards, tarot cards, and ... Read More

Smarty Party is a wonderful trivia game, a new experience for experienced trivia game players that also appeals to those whose brains aren't packed with minutiae.

Buzzword, a recently published party game from Patch Products, should be enjoyed by fans of party/word games like Taboo and Catchphrase.

Atari has announced plans to release a Trivial Pursuit video game for Windows PCs, PlayStation2, and the Xbox, Trivial Pursuit Unhinged. (In other Trivial Pursuit news, volume 6 -- with ... Read More

According to an article from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, game tables are now officially a hot home furnishing. The article, which also appeared in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, says: "The game room ... Read More

Rumba Games, publisher of the games Trivia in a Trunk, Urban Myth and Oxford Dilemma, recently was named the fifth fastest growing company in Canada by Profit magazine. According to ... Read More

The 2003 World Scrabble Championship is scheduled to take place Oct. 19 to 24, 2003, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. According to the National Scrabble Association, the United States will be represented ... Read More

About two months ago, new research suggested that playing games might help people avoid Alzheimer's and other dementia. Now, researchers at Florida Atlantic University are taking it one step further. According ... Read More

If you're involved in planning larger-scale games days (roughly 25 people or more), or if you'd like to organize such an event, consider joining the Games Day Planning discussion group. The ... Read More

New England, a bidding and tile placement game designed by Alan R. Moon and Aaron Weisblum, has been published in an English edition by Uberplay Games. The new company also ... Read More

The finalists for the 2003 International Gamers Awards, which is my choice for the most significant award available to strategy games, have been announced. In the General Strategy Games Multi-Player Category, ... Read More

There are few Christmas-themed board games available, so I always look forward to new ones... but I can't decide if this counts or not: Jacob Marley, Esquire is scheduled for ... Read More

PDQ - The Pretty Darn Quick Word Game is among the latest games from Gamewright. This card game is light family fun, great to toss into a backpack for a ... Read More

Three years after Cheapass Games published Chief Herman's Holiday Fun Pack, they're releasing the sequel - Chief Herman's Next Big Thing. Like the original, Next Big Thing packs a lot ... Read More

Delivering food is easier for ninjas than for ordinary humans. And Steve Jackson Games is taking the concept of Ninja Burgers and turning it into a card game. The Ninja Burger ... Read More

A new expansion for Deadwood, a game about making really bad movies, is scheduled to be published by Cheapass Games in October. The expansion, a set of six boards, will replace ... Read More

Last year, Parker Brothers / Hasbro released Lord of the Rings Risk in the United States. This year, they plan to release an entirely new LotR Risk game with an ... Read More

Not everyone was upset about the recent blackout. Karen Ross told the Toronto Star, "What a beautiful night. ... With the TV and computers down the kids were also with ... Read More

The latest in the Hip Pocket line of games from Cheapass Games, Timeline is a 30-minute strategy game with a time travel theme. As described on the Cheapass web site, Timeline ... Read More

Extra Space is the latest expansion for Cheapass Games' Diceland. This expansion includes eight new ships, taken from the Hip Pocket Games release Light Speed. Diceland: Extra Space can be played ... Read More

It's 1849, the California gold rush. And the mayors of these newly wealthy towns have lots of money, so they're spending it on... getting rockets to the Moon. That's the ... Read More

Top Trumps is the name of a new series of six card games published by Parker Brothers / Hasbro and available only at Toys 'R' Us stores. Six games are ... Read More

The Colditz castle, probably the world's most famous prisoner of war camp -- and the inspiration for the board game Escape from Colditz, is being turned into a tourist destination. According ... Read More

Playing Chess teaches you to think ahead, to see the future consequences of current decisions. And that fact is being put to good use at the Deanwood Chess House outside ... Read More

Game sales in the U.S. are growing dramatically, according to an article from the Reuters news service. "Sales of games for grown-ups in the first half of 2003 surged 84 ... Read More

Those of us who are now adults (in age if not in spirit) have fond memories of games played as children. Patrick Korner, a member of the Terminal City Gamers ... Read More

"Bored citizens of a future society fight using laser rifles and imagine themselves as gangsters - but this isn't the latest Hollywood blockbuster... it's a board game." So reads the ... Read More

The 2003 Toy and Game Inventors Forum is scheduled to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 5, 6 and 7. According to the TGIF web site, The Toy and ... Read More

The folks at Fair Play Games (an online retailer) have posted an interview with the CEO of Fantasy Flight Games, Christian T. Petersen. Fantasy Flight publishes both board and card ... Read More

The world championship tournament for Magic: the Gathering begins today in Berlin, Germany. Players from more than 50 countries are expected to participate, with the winner in the individual competition ... Read More

Greg Costikyan is a game designer responsible for titles like the Star Wars Roleplaying Game, the Paranoia rpg, and more. His web site, a blog that often includes content about ... Read More

The Games Journal is a monthly, online magazine about board games and card games. Each issue includes fascinating articles, and this month is no exception. The articles include "Shortening Long Games," ... Read More

Pirate's Cove is the latest board game to be announced by Days of Wonder; the company expects it to be available in fall 2003. Pirate's Cove is an English- and French-language ... Read More

San Juan is the name of the upcoming card game based on the board game Puerto Rico (the highest rated game at BoardgameGeek.com). Although other designers worked on prototypes, Andreas ... Read More

Doug Brzezinski is a 305-pound, 6-foot 4-inch tall offensive lineman for the Carolina Panthers in the NFL (he played his first four years in the league with the Philadelphia Eagles). One ... Read More