Two sites discovered Settlers of Catan this week:
PlayThisThing, Greg Costikyan’s blog on everything cool in video games outside the mainstream.
Sword in the Stone, an anime, comic, and game store in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
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We last reported on the world’s smallest chess board (no pieces) at 2.5 mm by 2.5 mm, and the world’s smallest chess set (with pieces) at 24 mm by 24 mm.
The next world’s smallest chess set with pieces is a mere 3.5 mm by 2.5 mm and it’s also gorgeous. It’s not just a plain [...]
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Multiman Publishing is shipping South Mountain, a hex-and-counter game of the Civil War battle known by the same name. The game is part of MultiMan’s the Gamers Regimental Sub-Series.
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The Guardian weighs in on the rising phenomenon of using games in the classroom.
The article covers the obstacles that games have in joining educational curricula, namely that they are considered “fun”, and “fun” can’t be learning, right?
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The latest video game to CCG making news is Call of Duty, set to become a simultaneous real-time CCG from Upper Deck Entertainment.
Real-time? “During the course of a game, a player might play a card every three seconds until a “pause” card is played… A pause card halts the action and resolves a powerful effect [...]
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Grand Rapids, MI: A woman pleaded not guilty to leaving her three children (ages 5, 10, and 13) in a car while she played poker for several hours. The kids were found at 1 am by a passerby. Game: Texas Hold’em.
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You can now charge a $5 entry fee to a cribbage game in Augusta, Maine. The previous entry fee cap was $1.
The new law is called “An Act to Amend Games of Cards”, and was introduced after a cribbage game at the American Legion was busted.
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Several states have been in the news lately for cracking down on low stakes poker games held in private houses and social clubs. Laws in some states are so vague as to make any card games or board games like Monopoly potentially illegal (in some extreme cases, even when not played for money). As a [...]
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Cyndi Lauper, 1980s pop star whose hits include “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and “Time After Time”, directed the commercial for Hasbro’s game Trivial Pursuit Totally ’80s. Other 1980s pop artists appear in the video. You can watch the commercial at the official site.
Cyndi also contributed the music.
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Colonial Gothic is a new supernatural horror RPG set during the American Revolution from Rogue Games.
It’s available in hard and PDF copies from several places, including Indie Revolution.
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