In what may be the most productive event of the current Bush visit to the Middle East, Laura Bush stopped by a mixed Arab and Jewish school to play cards.
The game isn’t named, but according to the source, they played with colorful cards illustrated with pictures of animals. Go Fish?
(source)
Filed under: Card Games | No Comments »
Celebrated Bolllywood actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Aamir Khan loves Settlers of Catan, according to a post on his blog.
Getting back to Settlers of Catan, it’s a wonderful game. You must try it if you are fond of board games.
(source, image)
Filed under: Modern Board Games | No Comments »
I received the following email from Shubha Galgali:
We are a group of MBA students from the Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine. We are working on a project for our class Edge that explores how technology (specifically, web 2.0 tools) and globalization are transforming the business landscape. As a part of our project, [...]
Filed under: Classic Board Games, Electronic Games, Modern Board Games, Other | No Comments »
After Worlds will be a new campaign setting for Iron Crown’s HARP SF from something or someone called Cloven Fruit Games.
The setting is a post-apocalyptic world and daily life is a constant struggle. It’s due out in November.
(announcement)
Filed under: RPGs | No Comments »
Games for Educators is the brainchild of Mary Couzin (of the Chicago Toy & Game Fair) and Patrick Matthews (of Live Oak Games).
According to the site, “GamesForEducators.com is your source for everything having to do with games and educators. Whether you are a teacher, a librarian, a homeschooler, or even a game company trying [...]
Filed under: Other | No Comments »
Monte Cook, author of some of D&D 3 and 3.5 and other stuff, was about to retire from the RPG industry, but it seems he’s still going to.
Not much in the way of news, I know, but despite rumors to the contrary, the announcement by Paizo that he is “consulting” on Pathfinder is just a [...]
Filed under: RPGs | No Comments »
This pun infused card game (M.A.S. stands for “Multi-dimension Attack Ships”) seems to be not much more than a simple game with a brief political hook.
The rules aren’t on the website, but hints about them are. Slightly more info on the rules at the BGG entry.
Filed under: Card Games | 1 Comment »
Highmoon Media Productions has announced an agreement with Green Ronin Publishing to produce a line of True20 Ancients sourcebooks. While conversions of material originally released by Green Ronin as d20 supplements (the Mythic Vistas series), Highmoon will be adding new material and reorganizing the work on cultural lines. The first two books available will be [...]
Filed under: RPGs | No Comments »
As part of this year’s Sally Ride Science Toy Challenge, teams from Clay Hill Elementary School in Florida and Pilgrim Park Middle School in Wisconsin will be presenting their board game designs to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The purpose of the contest is to promote an interest in science among young students. An [...]
Filed under: Modern Board Games | No Comments »
Boochie is a take-off of the classic boccie, only this time you throw a colorful d12 to start you off and then toss balls and hoops at it.
The scoring depend on what face of the d12 is face up. You keep score with some sort of “wrist tracker” which may also have some affect on [...]
Filed under: Other | No Comments »
