The card game Dominion has won the 2009 Spiel des Jahres, Germany's award for the best family game of the year. Dominion is a deck-building card game in which players ... Read More

An expansion for the board game Battlestar Galactica is due out this fall from publisher Fantasy Flight Games. The expansion, Pegasus, adds two new supplemental game boards featuring the Battlestar ... Read More

Publisher Mayfair Games has announced plans to release Witch of Salem, an English-language edition of Der Hexer von Salem, in August or September 2009, according to a report on BoardGameNews.com. ... Read More

The first expansion pack for the great trivia game Wits and Wagers is scheduled to be available in September. The $15 expansion includes 700 new questions, including a card with ... Read More

The winners of the Meeples Choice Award, voted on each year by the members of the board game discussion group Spielfrieks, have been announced. The winners are: Pandemic: Pandemic is an ... Read More

The only thing that Golf Solitaire really has in common with golf is that you want a low score -- but it's a fun solitaire card game nonetheless.

Oh Hell is a simple trick-taking card game that nonetheless presents good opportunity for strategic play. It's a great choice for family gatherings with children about 10 years old and ... Read More

Tic Tac Toe is a simple game which, if played optimally by both players, will always result in a tie. However, many players (especially younger children) still enjoy it, and ... Read More

Categories is an excellent party game that can be played with just pencils and paper, a predecessor to the game Scattergories. Players are given five categories and five letters, then ... Read More

The card game Pyramid Solitaire has simple rules and takes just a few minutes to play each hand. So it's no surprise that it's a popular way to pass some ... Read More

Dice games appeal to me for many reasons -- the luck of the roll means that anyone can win, we all seem to believe that we can control the dice, ... Read More

The fan site Heroscapers.com has posted previews of the character cards for the Wave 9 expansion of Heroscape, due out later this month. Pictured here is Migol, a dwarf hero ... Read More

Game publisher and toy manufacturer Hasbro announced recently that it will work with more than 165 licensees around the world to produce t-shirts and other clothing items in 2009. According ... Read More

Friedemann Friese's best-known board game is probably Power Grid, published in 2004 by Rio Grande Games and 2F-Spiele. In Power Grid, players compete to supply cities with power, acquiring various ... Read More