"Everybody has heard of Monopoly and Scrabble. But fewer are familiar with the third best-selling family game in the world -- Rummikub." That's the lead to a story at Israeli21c, ... Read More

Taking a swipe at President George W. Bush and his administration, a French author has published a deck of cards modeled after the Iraq Most Wanted deck distributed to U.S. ... Read More

Matt Nuccio, designer of Goth, a horror trivia board game, has designed a game based on the Living Dead Dolls manufactured by Mezco. According to an article in the Forest Hills ... Read More

A deluxe edition of the war game Bitter Woods: The Battle of the Bulge has been published by L2 Design Group. The game, profiled recently in The Journal, a Navy publication, ... Read More

Euro Quest, the first Euro-themed (designer games) mini-convention hosted by the Boardgame Players Association and the Games Club of Maryland, is scheduled for November 7-9, 2003, in Timonium, Maryland. Tournaments will ... Read More

The third in the series of Munchkin card games from Steve Jackson Games is now available. Here's how Munchkin 3 is described on the SJ Games web site: "Munchkin 3 - Clerical ... Read More

Rio Grande Games has announced its schedule for late 2003, and it's packed with games like Carcassonne: the Castle, Chicken Cha Cha Cha and O Zoo le Mio. The upcoming months ... Read More

Face2Face Games, which recently published I'm the Boss, has announced that it will publish new editions of Sleuth and Rheinlander. Sleuth is a deduction game designed by Sid Sackson and is ... Read More

The Northwest Indiana Times recently profiled a group of regular Bridge players, including a couple who met over a Bridge game in Paris during World War II.

The winners of the International Gamers Awards for 2003, a set of awards which recognizes outstanding strategy board games in two categories, have been announced.

Decipher's popular Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game is moving online, and one beta-tester is giving it a glowing review. Writing for GamingVoice.com, Kevin Kitchens says, "Of course being a ... Read More

Bruce Whitehill, better known as the Big Game Hunter, is profiled in the September 2003 issue of Rhode Island magazine. Whitehill, the author of Games: American Boxed Games and Their Makers ... Read More

Middle Earth meets Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly in these two new games, both scheduled to be published by Hasbro in November 2003. LotR Trivial Pursuit will challenge players with 1,800 Lord ... Read More

Break the Safe is a unique game, as players work cooperatively to deactivate a safe's self-destruct mechanism before time expires. It's a fantastic game for families.

An independent game designer and publisher has been told to stop calling his company "Jasbro," according to a report from Sacramento, California. Hasbro has contacted game designer Dan Thompson, publisher of ... Read More

Bidding to play Monopoly with celebrities may become a hot new charity fundraiser. Recent celebrities to offer their time in this way include Cheryl Ladd and Martina McBride. According to an ... Read More

Many people in the eastern United States spent extra time recently playing board games and card games as Hurricane Isabel knocked out electrical power for millions of households. But in ... Read More

Creepy Freaks, a new game from WizKids that features characters like Frosty the Snotman, Spitty Cat, and SkeleHomie, will debut this weekend across the United States. The WizKids web site has ... Read More

Patch Products kicked off the third annual Million Minute Family Challenge at the Chicago International Toy and Game Fair over Labor Day weekend. At that event, more than 100 families ... Read More

Bob Moog, the 47-year-old president of University Games, has been designing games for about 18 years. His company was featured recently in the San Francisco Chronicle. In the article, Moog discusses ... Read More

Strong Museum in Rochester, New York, recently announced that it will become the first museum to focus exclusively on "the importance of play as it reflects and illuminates the American ... Read More

First displayed at Toy Fair 2003, an all-new Survivor game will be available soon. According to publisher Rumba Games, this game "brings the hit TV show from exotic locales around ... Read More

Martine Redman, who designs children's games for her own company, Briarpatch, was recently profiled in the New Jersey Star-Ledger. According to the article, Redman has designed more than 75 toys and ... Read More

The seventh edition of Survivor, this one taking place in the Pearl Islands, is almost upon us. And once again we analyze the players' favorite board games to predict the ... Read More

A new game company, Dead Ant Games, has published its first game, Summer Camp. The full-color card game finds players doing their best to persuade the coolest kids at camp ... Read More

GameTable Online, a web site featuring online versions of board and card games like Lord of the Fries, Cosmic Wimpout, Drakon, Battle Cattle and more, is offering a series of ... Read More

Mattel recently held a Break the Safe game competition at the New York City Vanderbilt YMCA, showcasing the new board game that focuses on teamwork, communication and cooperation. Serving as ... Read More

"It has reached the point at which doctor's appointments are rescheduled and social dates postponed." That's the lead in a recent story at TCPalm.com about people who play board games ... Read More

Pop singer Aaron Carter and his brother, Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, will be in Manhattan today to help Hasbro launch the new Twister Moves game. At 2 p.m., there's a ... Read More

The September issue of The Games Journal, a monthly online publication devoted to board games and card games, is now available. The contents of this month's issue include: The Ultimate Tiebreaker -- ... Read More