I recently played in a no-limit Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament at the Borgata casino in Atlantic City. It was a fun experience, and something I'll probably do again in ... Read More

David Wiegand, a 31-year-old mortgage underwriter from Portland, Oregon, has won the 2005 National Scrabble Championship. The event was held in Reno, Nevada, Aug. 19-24. Weigand opened the competition with ... Read More

WizKids has announced plans to publish a Battlestar Galactica collectible card game (CCG) based on the current Sci Fi Channel television series. "We couldn't be happier to add our tradition ... Read More

Bruno Faidutti is one of the most prolific game designers working today. His ludography includes Citadels, Mystery of the Abbey, and Boomtown. Bruno also maintains a personal web site which ... Read More

Greg Schloesser was one of the first people to send me an email after I started to write for About.com in 1999. He sent me an email suggesting that I ... Read More

Rolling two six-sided dice is common in some of the most popular board games, including Monopoly, Backgammon and Settlers of Catan. Even if you don't memorize the percentages in our ... Read More

Jeremy Young is a busy guy. He's an integral part of three game publishers: Uberplay, Inspiration Games, and SimplyFun. Between them, those companies have published nearly three dozen games in ... Read More

Texas Hold 'Em Poker is a wildly popular version of the classic card game. This three-day series of free email newsletters is designed to help beginning players understand the game ... Read More

Not enough movies use board games as a central part of the plot. But these eight movies do (some documentaries, some major films), and each is enjoyable in its own ... Read More

Sometimes the boxes that card games come in are just terrible -- weak, badly designed, just not something that's going to protect your cards properly. So what's the solution? Try ... Read More

National Games Week, an event started last year, is scheduled for Nov. 20-26, 2005. The goal is to get more people to play non-electronic games, including board games and card ... Read More

Players try to push the Battle Line forward untill it reaches the opponent's ground line in the board game Elasta, designed by Michail Antonow. The basic mechanism in this game ... Read More

The August 2005 edition of The Games Journal has been posted. Features this month include "Ethics in Gaming 3.0," a report from Origins 2005, "Repairing Boxes 2.0," reviews of Shadows ... Read More

When The Dukes of Hazzard opens in theaters on Friday, it won't be accompanied by any new board games or card games. But fans of this pop culture phenomenon can ... Read More

Frank DiLorenzo is the head of R&R Games, publishers of Time's Up, Smarty Party and the upcoming You Must Be an Idiot. They also manufacture Hide & Seek Safari, a ... Read More