Ticket to Ride, a fabulous game designed by Alan R. Moon, has won the 2004 Spiel des Jahres, Germany's Family Game of the Year award. In my view, it's a ... Read More

Golem, designed by Justin D. Jacobson of Florida, is the winner of the 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition sponsored by this site and Abstract Games magazine. Golem was chosen ... Read More

Game Trade Magazine is offering a copy of the game Early American Chrononauts, a time travel game set between the U.S. Revolutionary War and the U.S. Civil War. All you ... Read More

The winners of the annual Origins Awards have been announced. Although the results always include some head-scratchers, I think the list this year is fairly respectable. Following are the winners in ... Read More

The Origins game convetion is taking place in Columbus, Ohio, and although I couldn't make it this year I'm enjoying Origins vicariously through the reports of Rick Thornquist at GameWire. ... Read More

Typo is the latest game from designer Corne van Moorsel, who has designed StreetSoccer, ZooSim and others. It looks to be a very clever word game for 2 to 4 ... Read More

No one in Asia owns more playing cards than Kishor Gordhandas. His collection currently stands at 5,000 decks from more than 70 countries, the result of collecting for 22 years. ... Read More

Screenlife, creator of the DVD board game Scene It?, plans to publish a James Bond Edition of the game in October 2004. The James Bond edition combines interactive DVD entertainment, ... Read More

Oscar-winning actor Tim Robbins may star in the upcoming film "Zathura," a sequel of sorts to "Jumanji," which prominenetly featured a board game. According to the Hollywood Reporter, "Zathura" centers ... Read More

In September 2004, Wizards of the Coast plans to release the Star Wars Miniatures Rebel Storm Starter Kit and Booster Packs, which will come with fully assembled, prepainted plastic miniatures ... Read More

Atlantic City, New Jersey, celebrates its 150th anniversary this year and the Camden (NJ) Courier-Post is taking a look at the town's relationship to the board game Monopoly. In this ... Read More

A new documentary about competitive Scrabble, "Word Wars," won "Best Documentary" at the Sedona (Arizona) Film Festival in March. The film follows four great Scrabble players -- Joe Edley, G.I. ... Read More

Two months ago, PAX TV announced plans to air a game show based on Balderdash. Now, comedian Elayne Boosler has been announced as the host of the show. Produced by The ... Read More

For 55 years, Candy Land has been a favorite first game for children -- even if parents weren't always thrilled when it became an obsession. In the spring of 2005, ... Read More

Father's Day is approaching -- have you bought a gift for your dad yet? If you want to buy a game this year (no more ties!), consider one of the ... Read More

Game publisher Avalon Hill, a division of Wizards of the Coast and owned by Hasbro, has updated its web site with several interesting features: FAQs for Axis & Allies (Revised ... Read More

Coda won't force you to use all your brain cells, so if that's what you look for in a deduction game, don't pick up this game. But if you would ... Read More

Rio Grande Games had several of its products honored recently, as Igloo Pop received a 2004 iParenting Media Award and the Spiel des Jahres jury in Germany named three Rio ... Read More

The International Gamers Awards recently announced the recipient of the 2004 IGA for Historical Simulations, Lock 'N Load. Designed by Mark H. Walker and published by Shrapnel Games, Lock 'N ... Read More

Goldbrick Games, a new family-owned game company, is shipping its first release, Perpetual Commotion. Perpetual Commotion finds 2 to 6 players involved in a hand-flying, card-slapping, pile-building card game. According to ... Read More

Playus Maximus has just launched as a company with the release of their first product, the science fiction adventure board game Smugglers of the Galaxy. In the game, players run ... Read More

In the new online Monopoly spoof Kerryopoly, a creation of the Republican National Committee, players start with $40,000 -- the average national household income. After a few trips around the ... Read More

Steve Jackson Games recently announced that Munchkin Bites, a new stand-alone game in the Munchkin series (which, like previous Munchkin sequels, will be combinable with the others), is scheduled for ... Read More

Last year, Funny Cide tried and failed to win horse racing's Triple Crown. Will Smarty Jones be any different? As the Belmont Stakes approach, you can get ready for the ... Read More

To be a truly great Texas Hold 'Em Poker player, you need to be able to read your opponents, ascertaining when they are bluffing and then they really have a ... Read More

GameTable Online and game publisher WizKids recently announced an agreement to bring the collectible miniatures game (CMG) Creepy Freaks to GTO. WizKids' "gross-out 3D strategy game" is expected to be ... Read More

A 39-year-old patent attorney from Connecticut -- a virtual unknown in the Poker world -- has won the 2004 World Series of Poker, taking home $5 million for his efforts. ... Read More

The June 2004 issue of The Games Journal, an online periodical devoted to board and card games, is now available. Features in this issue include: Destination Gaming Rob Lyon takes games with him ... Read More