Mayfair Games has announced six of its releases for 2004: Station Master, Russian Rails, Valley of the Kings, Anno 1503, La Strada (The Road), and Dos Rios (Two Rivers). According ... Read More

Steve Jackson Games' early 2004 release schedule includes the following board and card games: a reprint of Awful Green Things from Outer Space (available now), Snits (available now), Star Munchkin ... Read More

Tomorrow's Super Bowl pre-game show will go on and on... and on. If you're not hosting a game day before the big game, why not tune in to the World ... Read More

A Hotel on Marvin Gardens, a play based on characters who reveal themselves while playing Monopoly (written by Nagle Jackson) has met at least one critic who likes the game ... Read More

At the Hopkins School in Massachusetts, teachers recently decided that indoor recess -- it's too cold to go outside -- should include board games and card games. "After a video ... Read More

A recent game of Taboo in Conway, Arkansas, led to felony charges against three men when guns allegedly were drawn because members of the losing team did not like losing. ... Read More

Tomorrow, the day before the Super Bowl, Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams will lead a Houston Pop Warner football team in play to help raise money for local children's ... Read More

Dancing Eggplant Games, recently renamed from Diet Evil Games (publisher of Nobody But Us Chickens and FraudSquad), has announced plans to publish the card game Employee of the Month, designed ... Read More

Several follow-ups are in the works to Out of the Box Publishing's 10 Days in Africa, which itself was a follow-up to the game Europa Tour (those two games ranked ... Read More

Tongiaki, a new game about sending ships out to explore uncharted islands, is available for online play at BrettspielWelt, one of the best places to play games online. I've played ... Read More

Does playing games like Chess and Scrabble constitute participating in a sport? Read this article about a Chess controversy in England, and then vote in our poll.

In 1996, Cheapass Games released a card game under the title Before I Kill You, Mister Bond. A few years later, the lawyers at MGM -- home of James Bond ... Read More

WizKids has started to post previews of the figures in their new MLB SportsClix baseball game. Eric Chavez, who plays third base for the Oakland A's, and Mark Loretta, who ... Read More

Uberplay Entertainment announced recently that their new games Oasis (by Alan R. Moon and Aaron Weissblum), about a power struggle between Mongolian families, and Tongiaki (by Thomas Rauscher), a sailing ... Read More

Ghettopoly, a parody of Monopoly that features playing pieces in the shape of a machine gun, a marijuana leaf and a 40-ounce bottle of beer, is now under legal assault ... Read More

Beth and I traveled to our friends Tom and Dana's house yesterday for some gaming, and three of us spent most of the day watching in awe as the fourth ... Read More

Games.com -- a web site that features online versions of board games like Monopoly, Clue, Scrabble, Boggle and more -- will have a new owner as of March 31, 2004. ... Read More

Steve Jackson Games has announced plans to publish Greed Quest, designed by Joseph McEvoy and illustrated by Phil Foglio, in April 2004. According to the game's web site, 4 to ... Read More

Scheduled for release in July 2004, the DC Comics Trading Card Game will put players in command of characters like Batman, Superman, The Joker, and Catwoman. The game will be ... Read More

Dracula's Revenge is an upcoming game from Human Head Studios, described by the company as a "tabletop game of horror-themed tactical combat" in which "the infamous Count Dracula returns to ... Read More

The Seattle Times recently covered a Go championship match at Seattle's Fairmont Olympic Hotel. Reigning champion Keigo Yamashita faced challenger Naoki Hane for the title and a $400,000 prize. That ... Read More

Ticket to Ride is an upcoming game from designer Alan R. Moon and publisher Days of Wonder. For 2 to 5 players, taking 30 to 45 minutes per game, Ticket ... Read More

KB Toys has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans to close up to 500 of its 1,300 stores. The mall-based toy store's announcement comes not long after FAO Inc., ... Read More

The eighth installment of Survivor (in the U.S.) features an all-star lineup of past Survivor contestants. For the past five episodes of Survivor, I've tried to predict the winner based ... Read More

The winner of the "Solitary Confinement" design contest for the Piecepack, a public domain set of board game components, has been announced. Clark Rodeffer's winning entry is Piece Packing Pirates, ... Read More

A new trading card game based on the animated television series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is scheduled to be released by Upper Deck Entertainment in February 2004. The two-player game, known ... Read More

The Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto, California, is hosting a "Vintage Board Games and Puzzles" exhibit through January 25, 2004. A review of the exhibit is available in ... Read More

Title Bout Championship Boxing is the name of a new text-based computer boxing simulation game, and it's based on the 1979 Avalon Hill board game Title Bout. Designers Tom and ... Read More

An article in the Northwest Indiana Times features the designers of Cranium, Hubbub and Howling Monkeys as it discusses the challenges of publishing a game independently.

TJ Games has announced two new games for the Alpha Playing Cards, Lost for Words, a two-player word strategy game loosely based on Lost Cities, and War of Words, a ... Read More

Episcopopoly is the name of one of the latest Monopoly ripoffs, this one theoretically designed "to teach children about stewardship." For those interested in games with a religious theme, particularly ... Read More

A commentator at The Motley Fool says that, so far, Topps' acquisition of WizKids in the summer of 2003 has not been fruitful. "WizKids, which makes strategy-style board games using ... Read More

A new company run by a former producer at Electronic Arts has announced plans for its first board game, titled Heroes Incorporated. According to a press release from Quest Machine ... Read More

A recent article in the Contra Costa Times included information about some stock market-related board and card games, including Stocks and Bonds, Pit, Rags to Riches and others. If you're ... Read More

The web site Lovegevity.com has announced plans to publish Lovegevity: The Wedding Planning Game. According to a press release, the object of the game is for players to plan their ... Read More

The board game Monopoly will be featured on one of the first episodes of the Travel Channel's new show John Ratzenberger's Made in America. The Monopoly episode, which also will ... Read More

Recently, Upper Deck Entertainment took collectible gaming to an entirely new level -- and not necessarily a good one -- with BreaKey. Now, appropriately, BreaKey is openly mocked in the ... Read More

The January 2004 issue of The Games Journal, an online periodical devoted to board and card games, includes a review of the game Bridges of Shangri-La, an article about gaming ... Read More

My 2003 ended and 2004 began the way I think that all years should end and begin: with great games being played. Dec. 31, 2003, found Beth and I taking ... Read More

Three new session reports by Greg Schloesser have been added to the Forum: Ark of the Covenant, a new Carcassonne-based game from Inspiration Games; China Moon, designed by Bruno Faidutti ... Read More

A South Carolina newspaper columnist remembers his family having huge arguments over Battleship, Yahtzee, and other games. But this year, they tried the great party game Apples to Apples and ... Read More