Every Wednesday afternoon, the Burlington (Vermont) Public Library hosts a Scrabble event for local children. "I wanted a program that would foster their growth and word games are a very ... Read More

Rick Thornquist, writer and editor for Gamewire, has filed a series of reports from the Game Manufacturers Association trade show in Las Vegas. He does a great job of covering ... Read More

Reports from the recent Game Manufacturers Association trade show in Las Vegas indicate that Fantasy Flight Games is planning to release a board game based on the popular video game ... Read More

Tim Walsh, designer of TriBond and author of the new book "The Playmakers: Amazing Origins of Timeless Toys," was interviewed recently by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Walsh, 39, spent two years ... Read More

Ticket to Ride is the latest game from designer Alan R. Moon, and it arrived at my house last Friday. Since then, it's been played quite a bit as Beth ... Read More

Fans of Pokemon have a chance to become official Pokemon card illustrators in a contest being sponsored by the Kids WB cartoon network and Nintendo. Children ages 5 to 15 ... Read More

The rules for Employee of the Month, an upcoming card game designed by Alan R. Moon and Aaron Weissblum, have been posted to Dancing Eggplant Games' web site. Employee of ... Read More

Avalon Hill's fourth announced game for 2004 is a completely new and unique haunted house-themed game, Betrayal at House on the Hill. A description of the game from Alliance Games ... Read More

Who invented Trivial Pursuit? That's the subject of a lawsuit filed in 1994 by David Wall of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. The suit is still moving forward, according to ... Read More

General Mills and Wizards of the Coast recently announced a promotion that's putting Neopets Trading Card Game cards in millions of cereal boxes. The promotion, which kicked off March 1, ... Read More

We tried out some of the games seen at the American International Toy Fair with our friends Tom and Dana recently, including the Uberplay strategy games Hoity Toity, Oh Pharaoh!, ... Read More

The March 2004 issue of The Games Journal, a monthly online periodical about board and card games, is now available. Features in this issue include How to Promote Board Gaming with ... Read More

The maker of Ghettopoly, a controversial parody of Monopoly, has filed a lawsuit asking that Hasbro, which publishes Monopoly, be required to allow him to sell Ghettopoly. According to an ... Read More

Alan Emrich, designer of the well-regarded 1999 war game Totaler Krieg!, teaches a course titled Principles of Game Design at various California colleges and universities. The online materials for the ... Read More

A Flash version of the 1981 Milton Bradley game Dark Tower is available for online play. In the game, players seek three keys which will unlock the Dark Tower and ... Read More

Wizards of the Coast recently announced plans to publish Risk Godstorm in July 2004 under the Avalon Hill label. According to a company press release, the game will "pit men ... Read More

Dragon Ball GT has joined the ranks of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh as the Dragon Ball GT Trading Card Game (TCG) has hit shelves nationwide. This is Score Entertainment's fourth major game ... Read More

Jarden Corporation recently announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire United States Playing Card Company, the privately held leading producer and distributor of premium playing ... Read More