Wizards of the Coast has announced that it will be closing its chain of retail stores, including Wizards of the Coast stores and the affiliated The Game Keeper stores. Wizards, a ... Read More

The fourth annual Game Design Competition sponsored by About.com Board/Card Games and Abstract Games Magazine has the theme of Shared Pieces. If you're interested in entering this competition, be quick! ... Read More

Hasbro's Battleball game supported this year's Pop Warner Super Bowl as the title sponsor. More than 1,600 players from across the country had the opportunity to play Battleball while at ... Read More

Two toy fairs in Germany dominate the gaming news from that country each year: Nuremberg in February and Essen in October. As the 2004 Nuremberg Toy Fair approaches, Rick Thornquist ... Read More

Was 2003 a good year for new games? Vote in our year-end poll and see what others think, too. Other year-end questions: How many new games did you buy in ... Read More

I believe that 2003 was a solid year for gamers and gaming families. The 10 games on this list are my picks for the best games of the year, but ... Read More

As you're doing your holiday shopping, perhaps it would help to take a look at the games featured in the seven most popular game reviews on this site: Scene It?, ... Read More

Dia de los Muertos, a mind-twisting trick-taking card game, is going to see new life as Four Dragons, published by Jolly Roger Games in the first quarter of 2004. The new ... Read More

In honor of next year's 60th anniversary of D-Day, Avalon Hill, a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro, has announced plans to release Axis & Allies D-Day, a ... Read More

TV Guide recently announced several new licensing deals, including ones involving the board games Scene It? and Don't Quote Me. According to a press release, the four new licensees are Wiggles ... Read More

Fleet Games has won a license to produce a Stargate SG-1 board game, scheduled for publication in January 2004. The Stargate SG-1 game will be for 2 to 6 players, ages ... Read More

Hasbro and Sally Ride recently announced the launch of the second annual TOYchallenge, a toy and game design competition created to motivate and encourage middle-school girls and boys to use ... Read More

A version of the trivia/party game TriBond is now available for wireless phones across the United States, according to Summus, Inc., a developer of applications and information processing tools. Click 3 ... Read More

The December 2003 issue of The Games Journal, an online periodical about board and card games, is now available. This month's features include an interview with Kevin Zucker, the man behind ... Read More

Patriot Challenge Inc., publisher of the Patriot Challenge game, recently announced that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has begun selling the game online. Patriot Challenge is a board game that ... Read More

2003 was a good year for mass market games, those available in retailers like Toys R Us and Wal-Mart. These aren't always the "best of the best" -- but these ... Read More

In a sign of the continuing popularity of televised Poker, NBC has announced plans to air "The Travel Channel World Poker Tour Battle of Champions" on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. ... Read More

Our Thanksgiving weekend included Friday gaming with friends Tom and Dana, and the first game to hit the table was 1987's Spiel des Jahres winner Auf Achse (which translates to ... Read More