As the world combats the outbreak of swine flu, more details about the expansion to the board game Pandemic have been released. Pandemic, my pick as the best board game ... Read More

American Mensa has announced the winners of their 2009 Mind Games competition. The five games chosen are awarded the Mensa Select seal. The winners are: Cornerstone (designed by by Matt Mette ... Read More

Two 11-year-old boys from Salem Elementary School in Cary, North Carolina, won the National School Scrabble Championship this weekend, earning $10,000 for their efforts. Andy Hoang (left) and Erik Salgado ... Read More

Dominion, my pick as the best card game of 2008, has won a 2009 Mensa Mind Games Award. Four other games were also named Mensa Mind Games winners; however, at ... Read More

Alfred Mosher Butts, born in 1899, is best known as the inventor of Scrabble, the most popular word game in the world. It was first published in 1948. According to ... Read More

Games sales for Hasbro grew by two percent in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same time period a year ago, according to a recent company announcement. However, ... Read More

Alan R. Moon is best known for designing the family strategy game Ticket to Ride, in which players compete to build railroads across the United States and Canada. In total, ... Read More

New York attorney Richard Marinaccio won the 2009 Monopoly U.S. National Championship yesterday in Washington, D.C., outlasting 27 other players to win $20,580 and the right to represent the United ... Read More

The annual Gathering of Friends (a game convention in Columbus, Ohio, attended by about 375 people and hosted by game designer Alan R. Moon) is over and I'm back home ... Read More

Klaus Teuber is best known for designing The Settlers of Catan, which has sold millions of copies worldwide since being released in 1995. The Settlers of Catan also inspired the ... Read More

I'm currently in Columbus, Ohio, attending the annual Gathering of Friends (a relatively small game convention hosted by designer Alan R. Moon). Here are a few quick notes on some ... Read More

Dave Arneson, who co-created the seminal roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, passed away on April 7. He was 61 years old. According to a statement from his family, Arneson "was ... Read More

Charles Darrow, best known for his work on the classic board game Monopoly, was not a prolific game designer. After losing his job as a heater salesman after the stock ... Read More

If you're on Facebook, please consider looking me up and making a friend request. It's another way to keep up to date on the world of board games and card ... Read More

The fate of HeroClix, a collectible superhero-themed tabletop game, has been unclear since publisher WizKids shut down in November 2008. But now HeroClix seems to have been saved and new ... Read More

A new board game based on the popular vampire novel Twilight by Stephenie Meyer should be available soon. According to a description at the online retailer Urban Collector, players "reenact ... Read More