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Erik's Board / Card Games Blog July 2005 Archive

By Erik Arneson, About.com Guide to Board / Card Games since 1999

Codename: Kids Next Door Trading Card Game

Saturday July 30, 2005
The Codename: Kids Next Door Trading Card Game will be in the spotlight during Kid's Fest at Six Flags Over Georgia on August 6 and 7, 2005. A 20-foot tall ... Read More

Four Questions with Rob Daviau

Friday July 29, 2005
Rob Daviau has worked on many games for Hasbro over the past several years, including (to one extent or another) Heroscape, Star Wars Epic Duels, Risk 2210 AD, the Game ... Read More

Beowulf Haiku Contest

Thursday July 28, 2005
Fantasy Flight Games is releasing the English version of Beowulf: The Legend, and they're giving fans a chance to win a copy of the game by showing off their poetic ... Read More

Unlur - Free Game of the Week

Wednesday July 27, 2005
Unlur is an abstract strategy game played on a hexagonal board made up of smaller hexagons. Each player has a different goal in this game, the winner of the 2002 ... Read More

2005 Essen Game Fair Preview

Tuesday July 26, 2005
There are two game fairs in Germany each year that attract a lot of attention from game fans around the world, and one of them is coming up in October. ... Read More

Games Day Atlanta - August 6

Tuesday July 26, 2005
The next Games Day Atlanta event is scheduled for Saturday, August 6, from 10 a.m. to midnight at the Comfort Suites Northlake in Tucker, Georgia. Fans of designer games such ... Read More

Four Questions with Frank Branham

Monday July 25, 2005
Frank Branham is a game designer (Nodwick Card Game, Warhamster Rally, the upcoming Battle Beyond Space) whose own personal collection includes many of the oddest games ever published. He's the ... Read More

More People Play Board Games Than Video Games

Saturday July 23, 2005
According to the 2004-05 Statistical Abstract on the United States, more adults play board games than video games. Abstract number 1238, based on data from the fall of 2003, shows ... Read More

Four Questions with Alan R. Moon

Friday July 22, 2005
Game designer Alan R. Moon, a two-time winner of the Spiel des Jahres (Germany's Family Game of the Year), for Ticket to Ride (2004) and Elfenland (1998), is the first ... Read More

Orm's Return - Upcoming Heroscape Expansion

Wednesday July 20, 2005
The fan site Heroscape.net has information on Orm's Return, a new upcoming expansion for Heroscape. The expansion includes new figures and new terrain -- and lots of photos are also ... Read More

NASCAR-Themed Game from WizKids

Wednesday July 20, 2005
WizKids has announced a licensing agreement with NASCAR for Race Day, a "constructible racing game" featuring cars of 22 of the top drivers and cars in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup ... Read More

World Series of Poker Comes to an End

Sunday July 17, 2005
It took more than 14 hours of play at the final table, but the World Series of Poker came to an end this morning and one player is now $7.5 ... Read More

First CCG from WizKids has Wild West Theme

Saturday July 16, 2005
High Stakes Drifter is the first collectible card game scheduled to be released by WizKids, the publisher of HeroClix, Mage Knight, and Pirates of the Spanish Main. "High Stakes Drifter ... Read More

Cranium Inc. Gets $15 Million in New Venture Capital

Saturday July 16, 2005
Cranium, Inc., publishers of the wildly popular party board game Cranium and more than a dozen others, has raised $15 million in new venture capital funding, according to the Seattle ... Read More

Conan Collectible Card Game Due Late this Year

Saturday July 16, 2005
Publisher Comic Images has announced plans to release a collectible card game featuring Conan, the barbarian hero played famously in a 1982 film by Arnold Schwarzenegger, late this year. According ... Read More

Former College Coach Playing Poker

Saturday July 16, 2005
Denny Crum, former coach of the University of Louisville basketball team, says he plays Poker like he coached basketball: "I don't get too high with the victories, and I don't ... Read More

Origins 2005 Award Winners

Wednesday July 13, 2005
The 2005 Origins Award winners have been announced, and the winner of the Best Board Game award was Ticket to Ride, published by Days of Wonder. Other winners included Sword ... Read More

July 2005 Issue of The Games Journal

Wednesday July 13, 2005
The July 2005 issue of The Games Journal, a monthly web-based periodical about games, has been posted. This issue includes an article about game themes and mechanics by game designer ... Read More

Origins Game Convention Coverage

Friday July 8, 2005
Rick Thornquist has provided great coverage of last weekend's Origins game convention in Columbus, Ohio. If you haven't read it yet, be sure to take a peek and catch up ... Read More

Peep War - Free Game of the Week

Wednesday July 6, 2005
To play Peep War, you'll need to buy some Peeps, those marshmallowy delights made by Just Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Or you can use the much-less-delicious Peeps understudies provided by ... Read More

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