Battlez -- The Ultimate Trading Card Game is fast, fun, and easy-to-learn. Players compete in head-to-head Battlez combining strategy, chance and skill to knock out their opponents. Red and Blue expansion sets include a host of exciting new characters and special moves with rules evolving for advanced levels of play.
Keys Publishing
http://www.theplaymakers.com/
Keys Publishing is launching "The Playmakers: Amazing Origins of Timeless Toys" as a celebration of classic toys and a tribute to the people who invented them. A 312-page gift book with more than 420 color photographs and hundreds of stories, The Playmakers chronicles the creation of everything from Teddy Bears (1903) to Beanie Babies (1993).
Kidsational
http://www.safetygame.com/
New from Kidsational this year is The Guardian Safety Game, which teaches child safety through a series of safety questions. The game also teaches children to get home safely from school.
Made by Hands
http://www.made-by-hands.com/
Made by Hands, with its line of Make-Your-Own art activity kits, adds to that collection with Make-Your-Own Games. Each kit comes with a folding game board and spinner, two large and six small dice, and a deck of 52 cards. All components are made of plain white cardboard ready to be designed with over 800 Pop-Outs! in six colors plus black.
Marban
Marban, Inc. is proud to introduce "Sentence Says", a very unique, quick thinking sentence creation game that is exciting and challenging. You've never seen two or more people play a game that brings out more fun, competition and laughs than "Sentence Says."
McWiz Games
http://www.mcwiz.com/
McWiz Games introduces a new collection of six educational games for children ages 3 and up that helps stimulate their memory and fundamental learning. Called Memo-Lingo, the games focus on developing a child's memory and was created to help children learn about different subjects. It is available in three languages -- English, Spanish and French. A CD is included in every box to help with the pronunciations. The first six games in the series are designed to teach kids about animals, food, shapes and colors, opposites, the alphabet, and math.
Morning Star Games
Award-winning filmmaker Allen Wolf originally created Truth? or Fib? to help two good friends get to know each other better. A year later, the couple decided to tie the knot. Truth? or Fib? brings laughs and builds relationships as players draw from 600 question cards and tell personal stories to answer the cards. The roll of the die tells players if their stories should be fact or fiction. Players bet tokens on whether they think their opponents are telling the truth or a fib.
New Classic Games
http://www.newclassicgames.com/
Abagio, the new classic game of Top Frog by New Classic Games, is a unique mixture of beguiling simplicity, cunning strategy, twists and turns, and surprising second chances. From the lush graphics of the board to the whimsical frog theme pieces to the seriously fun layers of strategy, this is that rarest of new game breeds -- a truly fresh, captivating and classy two-player board game that plays in 30 minutes.
OBH Enterprises
http://obhenterprises.com/
OBH Enterprises is introducing Game Savers: specifically designed, color-coded, sturdy, plastic containers to organize and store most popular children's board games. This product eliminates the unsightliness and dysfunction of broken cardboard game boxes. With sturdy plastic construction, strategically sized and placed interior compartments, and attached snap tight lid, Game Savers are designed to keep games organized and intact.
Out of the Box Publishing
http://www.otb-games.com/
Walk from Colorado to New Mexico, take a sports car from Florida to Tennessee, or fly from Hawaii to New York. Anything's possible in Out of the Box Publishing's new board game 10 Days in the USA. Touring by plane, car, and on foot, players chart their course from start to finish using destination and transportation tiles. The first traveler to make connections for a 10-day journey wins the game.
Outset Media
http://www.outsetmedia.com/
Professor Noggin's Card Games cover several educational topics. Perfect for travel use, the series has won seven major awards in the last year. Each game comes with 30 illustrated cards full of trivia, with two levels of difficulty so children of all ages can play. Six new titles released in 2004 include Wildlife Safari, Earth Science, National Parks, American Revolution, Civil War, and Reptiles and Amphibians. Eighteen topics provide a game for every interest. Tings is a guess-who-said-it party game that presents players with provocative topic cards, like "Things you shouldn't say to your doctor," or "Things that could get you arrested." Each player writes down whatever comes to mind. The answers are read aloud and players take turns guessing who wrote down each answer.
