Kenzer & Company, publisher of HackMaster, Aces & Eights, and the Kingdoms of Kalamar, wants you to know that Knights of the Dinner Table is not just a comic book, but is actually a full-fledged gaming magazine. Toward that end they are giving away a recent issue for free download.

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Last Thursday, celebrities came out to play Dominoes in the first Hollywood Doomino Tournament, a charity fundraiser for Art of Elysium, which is a non-profit that runs art workshops for seriously ill children.On hand were celebrities such as Kate Hudson, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Charlize Theron, Kate Hudson, Michelle Trachtenberg, Javier Bardem, Stuart Townsend, and Olivier Martinez.

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With all the focus on violent incidences to card-players, I would be remiss if I didn’t also mention the violent incidences in other games.

A 27 year old man was shot playing Dominoes at a Toronto restaurant. He fled and was shot at again.His injuries are not serious. (source)

No such good news for three guys in St Andrew who were shot and killed playing Dominoes. (source)

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Wargames publisher GMT Games has just released its new World War II game The Bulge: FAB #1. Both preorder customer and distributor shipments are now complete. From the same designer as acclaimed strategic-level WWII game Europe Engulfed, The Bulge is intended to be the first in a series of block games focused on speed and playability. In this game, players command division and brigade level units in the Battle of the Bulge from December 16th through December 27th. Wooden blocks represent troops, while die-cut counters represent additional assets available to the player Field Commanders.

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One of the earliest hobby game publishers, Flying Buffalo, is the latest company to join DriveThruRPG and has made a short version rulebook for its classic Tunnels & Trolls game available for free download. Tunnels & Trolls, one of the simplest fantasy roleplaying game systems available, is particularly known for use in solitaire play. A number of Tunnels & Trolls out-of-print solitaire adventure modules are also now available for purchase as electronic products on the DriveThruRPG website.

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The La Crosse Tribune covers the La Crosse Board Game Group and its gamers today.

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Days of Wonder announced Thursday that they would be increasing the suggested retail price for several of their most popular games, including the Ticket to Ride series and Battlelore.  The new policy, which has already gone into effect, increases the price for several big-box games, such as Mystery of the Abbey and Shadows Over Camelot, by $10.  Smaller products like the Ticket to Ride 1910 expansion will cost about $5 more.  Not all titles are affected, however: Memoir 44 is notably absent, as are its numerous expansions, so check out the press release before you begin weeping and gnashing your teeth.

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Hero Games and Cryptic Studios have announced a deal for the creation of a Champions MMORPG. As part of this deal Cryptic has purchased the Champions and Dark Champions intellectual property. Fear not, however, HERO System and Champions tabletop RPG fans. Hero Games is licensing back the right to produce Champions RPG books and the deal does not include the HERO system rules. Instead, those will benefit from an update to a sixth edition in August 2009, coinciding with the release of the MMORPG and benefiting from some of Cryptic Studios’ artwork.

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Christine Schneider of Neu-Isenburg, Germany is the winner of Paizo Publishing’s RPG Superstar contest. From a field of more than 850 initial entries, Christine survived six rounds of celebrity and public judging for the opportunity to publish her “Clash of the Kingslayers” adventure, which Paizo will release as GameMastery Module S1 for the Dungeons & Dragons OGL in January, 2009. The RPG Superstar competition challenged amateur game designers to develop a wondrous item, a country, a villain, a group of three thematically linked monsters, an encounter, and finally a full adventure proposal.

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New Berlin, NY: One man shot to death in a dispute during a card game. (source)

Landsing, MI: Four man burst in and robbed a card game at gunpoint. (source)

Grand Rapids, MI: One man shot to death during a card game. (source)

The names of the games were not mentioned.

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