In the new game Dos Rios from Mayfair Games, players work to be the first to build four houses and a hacienda. Along they way, they also build dams to ... Read More

Kosmos is a German game publisher with a strong track record of releasing excellent games. At Gamewire, Rick Thornquist and Patrick Korner have posted summaries of Kosmos' fall 2004 releases, ... Read More

According to The Motley Fool, Hasbro has reached a deal with Proctor & Gamble, makers of Pringles potato chips, to print Trivial Pursuit questions right on the chips. The chips ... Read More

Claiming that Amazon.com has violated an agreement granting Toys R Us "exclusive" rights to sell games, toys and baby products on Amazon's web site, the toy retailer has filed a ... Read More

Screenlife, creators of the DVD-based game Scene It?, recently announced acquisition of Digital Farm, a full-service digital media design studio. Screenlife worked with Digital Farm to create the DVD enhancement ... Read More

Neopets characters will travel from the virtual world of Neopia to McDonald's as part of the restaurant chain's "25 Years of Happiness Happy Birthday Happy Meal" celebration. From May 28 ... Read More

"People are getting their game fix at cafes, bars and even movie theaters." It's a trend covered by the San Diego Union-Tribune in this article. The article does a good ... Read More

A floating Scrabble game? Play in the tub with someone you're particularly close to? Perhaps... at least in the comic strip Mister Boffo.

The Spiel des Jahres is Germany's Family Game of the Year award, and it's probably the most significant game award in the world. This year's nominees are Dawn Under, Einfach ... Read More

Browsing the web today I noticed an article entitled, "10 Movies that Changed the World" and began to wonder what a list would look like of "10 Games that Changed ... Read More

Two new board games commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day, which took place on June 6, 1944: Memoir '44, published by Days of Wonder and designed by Richard Borg; and ... Read More

A board game based on the magazine Mental Floss (described by its publisher as "the first magazine to blur the lines between education and entertainment") is in development, according to ... Read More

Our first-ever edition of Game Designer Survivor Island has come to a close. We started with 25 game designers, randomly divided them into five tribes, and asked voters to eliminate ... Read More

Annie Duke is one of the top female poker players in the world, something she became after dropping out of the University of Pennsylvania "within an eyelash of completing her ... Read More

Tongiaki is deceptively simple and full of small decisions that add up to either success or failure. Players begin by placing ships on the island of Tonga, from which they ... Read More

The makers of Scene It? recently announced an addition to their DVD game line-up: Scene It? TV Edition. Like the original, the TV version combines interactive DVD entertainment, including scenes, ... Read More

Arriving in stores to coincide with the release of the movie Shrek 2 this month is Operation: Shrek, a new game from Milton Bradley / Hasbro based on the classic ... Read More

A recent press release from the Entertainment Software Association opened with the news that "computer and video games are capturing increasing amounts of Americans' leisure time at the expense of ... Read More

Mensa, an organization open to those who scores in the top two percent on an intelligence test, has named the games which won its 2004 Mind Games competition, held last ... Read More

Alex Randolph, one of the greatest games designers of the 20th century, has passed away at the age of 82. His creations include Twixt, Inkognito, Raj, Ricochet Robot, and Enchanted ... Read More

A clever new family card game from Cranium, Inc., is now available exclusively at Starbucks in the U.S. and Canada for about $13. Cranium Zigity features a deck of "clear" ... Read More

The About.com Board/Card Games Forum Dream Game is a fun way to compare your thinking to that of other gamers... and it's incredibly simple. All you have to do is ... Read More