Niagara has won the 2005 Spiel des Jahres, Germany's award for Family Game of the Year and one of the most prestigious game awards in the world. In Niagara, players ... Read More

The second annual tournament to crown the international champion of Wizard, a card game which has sold more than 1 million copies, was held recently in Stamford, Connecticut. According to ... Read More

You can register for a chance to win one of 30 copies of the new board game Nexus Ops by signing up for the BoardGameGeek.com email newsletter. A total of ... Read More

R.W. Bishop, a 43-year-old resident of Lynnwood, Washington, recently won a Poker tournament at a local casino -- and with it, the $10,000 entry fee into the World Series of ... Read More

Monopoly Here & Now is an effort to bring the U.K. edition of the classic real estate board game "into the 21st century," according to an article in the Telegraph. ... Read More

The New York Times has started publishing a Poker column, written by James McManus, the author of Positively Fifth Street (an amazingly compelling book, covering the seedy side of Las ... Read More

Annie Duke, arguably the most famous female professional Poker player ever, is branching out. According to Inside Bay Area, a San Francisco newspaper, Duke won $2.5 million in 2004 and ... Read More

The annual Meeples Choice Awards, voted on by the members of the board and game discussion group Spielfrieks, have been announced for 2004: Ticket to Ride (#1 on my list ... Read More

Euro Quest III, a game event focusing on designer (aka European or German) games like Carcassonne and Settlers of Catan, is scheduled for Nov. 17-20, 2005, in Timonium, Maryland. Both ... Read More

BoardGameGeek.com is hosting its first game convention this fall in Dallas, Texas. Scheduled for Nov. 3-6, 2005, BoardGameGeek.CON is limited to 150 attendees. Early registration, which has been extended to ... Read More

The annual World Boardgaming Championships, sponsored by the Boardgame Players Association, are scheduled to take place this year in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, August 2-7, 2005, at the Lancaster Host Resort and ... Read More

The 17th Annual International Risk Tournament of Champions is scheduled for Oct. 14-16, 2005, in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Registration for the double-elimination tournament is $43 until Sept. 9; beginning Sept. 10, ... Read More

DexCon 8, a gaming convention in East Brunswick, New Jersey, is scheduled for July 13-17, 2005. Among the scheduled board game and card game events are Cosmic Encounter, Hearts, Mystery ... Read More

Bill Becker, a fan of the party game Apples to Apples (in which players match nouns to adjectives), came up with a unique way to ask his girlfriend to marry ... Read More

For Labor Day weekend, Chicago is the place to be for game lovers as the annual family-friendly Chicago International Toy and Game Fair takes place on the Navy Pier. The ... Read More

Joe Huber, designer of the games Scream Machine and Ice Cream, is featured at Boston.com today (scroll down to the second item, titled "Game Theory"). Huber compares his work as ... Read More

A new book focusing on the history of Monopoly covers the reason why Alantic City street names were chosen for the board game. Monopoly: The Story Behind the World's Best-Selling ... Read More

A one-day game event has been scheduled for this Saturday, June 18, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It's scheduled to run from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; the cost is $10 per ... Read More

When Beth and I moved into our current home, we probably owned about 200 games. Our collection has now grown to more than 800. Ed and Susan Rozmiarek recently moved ... Read More

Have you ever heard of a card game called Chinese Rum? I can't find information about it anywhere. Not on BoardGameGeek.com, not on Pagat.com, and not via Google. But a ... Read More

Diamant, a great new press-your-luck style of game, has been consuming my free time lately. Players dig through mines, trying to find gems while avoiding dangers like cave-ins and explosions. ... Read More

Hasbro recently announced that they have reacquired the digital rights for its games, paying $65 million to Infogrames Entertainment. As part of the same agreement, Hasbro and Infogrames have entered ... Read More

Peter D. Adkinson, the former CEO of Wizards of the Coast, has started a new game company -- Hidden City Games. The company's first game is scheduled to be Clout ... Read More

Later this month, the annual Origins Game Expo will get underway in Columbus, Ohio. Scheduled for June 29 to July 3, the event features board games, card games, roleplaying games, ... Read More

The publishers of The 80s Game have released a new game with 1,200 all-new questions: The 80s-90s Combo Game. The 80s Game, along with The 70s Game and The 90s ... Read More

Are You Phrazy? is a new party game from a new publisher, Gotta Laff Games. Designed for 4 to 8 players, Are You Phrazy? is packed with phrases like "I ... Read More

Scheduled for release this month from Avalon Hill is Nexus Ops, described by the company as "a game of competing corporate mercenaries battling for control of a resource-rich world far ... Read More

The most recent edition of Board Games Survivor Island has come to an end, and Power Grid is the sole survivor! Review the results to see how we got from ... Read More