Looking for a great football game to play during Super Bowl week? Or perhaps to play in the second half of the game if it turns out to be a ... Read More

A new board game based on the hit television show Law & Order is being published by Cardinal Industries, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The game features four crimes, each ... Read More

A Springfield, Oregon, woman has filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming that her father invented the game on which Stratego is based. Heidi Cox is asking for an unspecified ... Read More

A new expansion for Carcassonne -- The Princess and The Dragon -- will be available in March, according to Rio Grande Games' latest newsletter. Also scheduled for March release are ... Read More

The tenth U.S. edition of Survivor -- Survivor Palau -- debuts on Feb. 17, 2005. Here, we look at the contestants' favorite board games and use that information to predict ... Read More

Texas Hold 'Em Poker is especially tough for beginners. But there are some easy ways to improve your game significantly. The first is to know your position and what it ... Read More

Reiner Knizia is one of the most profilic game designers of all time. Just how prolific is he? We examine that question in our Forum, looking at the number of ... Read More

The prizes for the fifth annual About.com Board/Card Game Design Competition (this year's theme is deduction) have been significantly enhanced with news that online gaming site GameTable Online is co-sponsoring ... Read More

Avalon Hill's 2005 schedule includes four new or revamped games, along with three reprints. The lineup includes the pirate-themed Sword and Skull (due out in March), the B-movie inspired Monsters ... Read More

SimplyFun is a game publisher using a novel sales method -- game parties in your home run by a SimplyFun consultant (similar to the method used by Pampered Chef to ... Read More

HeroScape has earned a tremendous amount of attention from gamers, which in turn has led to dozens of unofficial scenarios and new units for the game. Our collection of HeroScape ... Read More

In recent years, studies have regularly shown that playing board games and card games is good for mental health, helping people avoid Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. In a ... Read More

Patch Products recently announced that families and friends from across the United States have logged more than 1 million minutes of game play during the 2004 Million Minute Family Challenge. Thousands ... Read More

We're now accepting entries for the Fifth Annual Game Design competition, this year with the theme of Deduction. The goal is simple: design a great two-player deduction game using pieces ... Read More

Battle for Olympus, a new two-player game designed by Reiner Knizia, is scheduled to be available for play at GameTable Online before a physical version is published. In the game, ... Read More

According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the publisher of the game Ghettopoly is representing himself in legal proceedings as the government tries to force the destruction of more than 62,000 copies ... Read More

The 2004 Million Minute Family Challenge, sponsored by Patch Products, is nearing its end. The goal of this annual event is to encourage families and friends to play more games ... Read More

According to the users of BoardgameGeek.com, 2004 was the best year ever in terms of great games being published. Four games released in 2004 are in the Top 11 of ... Read More

The subtitle for HeroScape -- my pick as the #2 new game of 2004 -- is "The Battle of All Time" and it certainly is. Everything about this game is ... Read More