A game so elegantly simple that it requires only nine cards from a standard deck has won the 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition, sponsored by About.com Board / Card Games ... Read More

The meanest, nastiest, most anger-inducing game I've ever played has been reprinted. And I couldn't be happier. Intrigue, designed by Stefan Dorra, will be available soon from publisher Mayfair Games. ... Read More

The next game scheduled to be published by Days of Wonder is Cleopatra and the Society of Architects, designed by Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc. According to a company press ... Read More

The most played game of 2005 was Ticket to Ride, according to Mark Jackson's annual compilation of "five and dime" lists from gamers around the world. And if you've never ... Read More

Barrie isn't even in the top 20 largest cities in Ontario, let alone all of Canada. But the 103,000-population city is home to Specialty Board Games, a company that's snagged ... Read More

Nick Park, the British animator who created the duo Wallace and Gromit, was recently at the London Toy Fair promoting the new Wallace and Gromit board game, Fleeced. According to ... Read More

Some news items posted recently in our discussion forum: London Toy Fair Coverage from the AP (including Monopoly Here & Now) Gone Gaming Internet Awards Announced Marvel Battle Dice Site Open RSVP: Online Card ... Read More

The makers of Pizza Box Football, a fast-paced football strategy game, are inviting players to predict the winner of Super Bowl XL by playing a game between Pittsburgh and Seattle. ... Read More

Screenlife, the company responsible for the DVD game Scene It? (one of my picks for the 50 most significant games of all-time), has announced 12 games to be released in ... Read More

At the 2006 American International Toy Fair in February, one of the new games featured by Winning Moves will be Mona Lisa Mysteries. The game is set in 1911, when ... Read More

The 2006 edition of BoardGameGeek.con, a public gaming convention organized by the owners of the web site BoardGameGeek.com, will take place Nov. 9 to 12 at the Westin City Center ... Read More

Every February, thousands of game and toy manufacturers, retailers and the media descend upon the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan to see what's coming in the months ahead. We have ... Read More

The hit television shows 24 and The Amazing Race will be turned into DVD games, publisher B1 Games announced recently. Game boards will provide the "graphic framework," according to a ... Read More

Sid Sackson was one of the greatest game designers who ever lived. Before he passed away in 2002 at the age of 82, he saw well over 100 of his ... Read More

The March 2006 issue of Games Magazine is now available. Among the contents: Beeline, an original game with the board printed on the magazine's cover; a fairly extensive article about ... Read More

Some news items posted recently in our discussion forum: Top 100 Speed Chess Player Legally Blind Game Sales Up 4 Percent Dreamation 2006 in New Jersey Game Display in British Museum Hong Kong Toys and ... Read More

Hasbro announced recently that it will combine its U.S. Toys and Games segments, and that Brian Goldner, the company's new chief operating officer, will have day-to-day responsibility for all of ... Read More

The 2006 edition of Protospiel, an annual gathering of amateur game designers to play nearly finished game prototypes, is scheduled to take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from July 13 ... Read More

GameTable Online has added a new game to its lineup: Lemmings in Space. Published by Inner City Game Designs, Lemmings in Space fuses sci-fi space battle with the suicidal nature ... Read More

The Entertaible, an electonic game-playing table designed by Philips, made a good splash at the recent Consumer Electronics Show. Read about the Entertaible, look at some photos, and then vote ... Read More

Some news items posted recently in our discussion forum: Places to Play Go Becoming More Common Duel Masters Wants Bigfoot Photos Cosmic Encounter Online - Interview Board Games Losing Kids to Video Games? Lewisburg, Pa., ... Read More

An upcoming board game will be based on Lost, the hit ABC telvision series co-created by J.J. Abrams, according to published reports. The Los Angeles Times reported recently that Lost's ... Read More

More than 1 million minutes of game-playing were logged in the 2005 Million Minute Family Challenge, according to event sponsor Patch Products. The top minute-logging group this year was the ... Read More

In a world enamored with sports-based video games, it's remarkable that a 45-year-old board game continues to draw players. But that's the case with Strat-o-Matic, a baseball -- and football, ... Read More

It's January. For half the world, it's the middle of winter. Maybe you're snowed in, dreaming of the time when you can once again run through fields barefoot and carefree. ... Read More

Hasbro and Marvel Entertainment today accounced an agreement under which Marvel granted Hasbro game and toy rights to its superhero universe, which is filled with characters like Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, ... Read More

It's not often that the Consumer Electronics Show brings news of interest to fans of board games, but this year is one of the rare exceptions. Philips unveiled the Entertaible, ... Read More

Some news items posted recently in our discussion forum: Surf the World - New Game Hawaii-Themed Memory Game Mentalogy - New Game Columnist Writes About Scrabble Game Tables Featured in Newspaper Scuba Club Plays Monopoly ... Read More

King Kong has captured movie-goers' imaginations three times: the original film in 1933, the first remake in 1976 and Peter Jackson's 2005 version. In my research, I've only turned up ... Read More

Knucklebones, a relatively new magazine devoted to games of all kinds, has published its third issue, with a cover date of March 2006. Knucklebones is a very reader-friendly, consumer-oriented magazine ... Read More

The 80s Game, a solid trivia game featuring questions all based on the 1980s, was recently featured in The Boston Globe. Designed for 2 to 5 players or teams, The ... Read More

I'd love to earn a living by playing games. But I'm not enough of a risk-taker to do it like one former advertising sales executive from Edinburgh, Scotland. According to ... Read More

There is no official award for "game designer of the year." But writer Larry Levy has been giving his own award for years, and he always puts together a thorough ... Read More

The best game of 2004 and the best game of 2002 can now be played on your personal computer. 2004's Ticket to Ride and 2002's Puerto Rico are both available ... Read More

Gone Gaming, one of the best gaming blogs, has organized the Gone Gaming Board Games Internet Awards. It's not another award for games -- rather, it's an award for game-related ... Read More