It’s in the Bag is a new sexual education game aimed at teenagers in Nottingham, UK.
It is being distributed for free to all secondary schools, resource centers and senior youth workers in Nottingham.
More information is available through the Teenage Pregnancy Partnership.
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Backgammon Masters, an online backgammon site, is attempting to set the world record for the longest toss of the dice in a backgammon game. (Are there separate records for dice tossing in each type of game?)
To accomplish this, they will be throwing the dice from a helicopter at two to three hundred feet up [...]
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Chimaera Comics, the new publisher of comic books (or “graphic novels” if you prefer) from Chimaera Studios, has announced that there will also be a new roleplaying game based on the Chimaera comics universe. According to an interview with George Singley of Chimaera on the Newsarama website, Mongoose Publishing has already completed development of the [...]
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The Oregonian reports on a concentration of indie roleplaying games at the GameStorm convention in Vancouver. The article highlights locally developed games Beast Hunters and Panty Explosion, likening the growth in indie RPGs to the Portland music, art, and film scenes. Indie RPGs are typically creator-owned or small-press games and often focus more on the [...]
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BattleFMX is a dice and CCG game about motorbike racing from Illektron.
It features Freestyle Motocross superstar Brian Deegan, along with Metal Mulisha Team members Todd Potter & Jeremy Lusk (like I know who these guys are).
The object of the game is to play out a Freestyle MX show, scoring or subtracting pointz (sic) by matching [...]
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Following up on Cluzzle and their big hit Wits and Wagers, North Star Games will soon release their next party game: Say Anything.
The basic idea: one person reads a question aloud about their preferences, e.g. “If I could have a big something, what would that something be?” Other players write answers for that person. He [...]
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Entering into the “games that are very expensive because their creators pompously think they can sell them as business investment tools” market is the game Abundance (originally called Serve to be Rich).
Where Cashflow 101 teaches you why investing is the key to financial independence, Abundance teaches that acquiring wealth is the key to spiritual happiness.
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Blue Devil Games will publish an RPG based on the stories of assassin John Rain, a character created by Barry Eisler.
The first scenario is called Tokyo Rain. Players take on the role of the assassin or his prey.
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The Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group was created in 1993 to jointly negotiate a treaty between natives of British Columbia and the governments of British Columbia and Canada. Negotiations have been underway for over 14 years.
Apparently, the terminology and history is so confusing, even those involved in the process don’t understand all of it. To address this, [...]
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Crocodile Games is shipping new miniatures for Paizo Publishing’s Pathfinder series of d20 fantasy adventures. The miniatures are unpainted, 28mm white metal and are based on characters and concepts from “Burnt Offerings,” chapter 1 in the first Pathfinder series.
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