One attempt to add more skill to the game of Poker, and work around U.S. laws that ban it, is DuplicatePoker.com .
Duplicate Poker, inspired by the idea of duplicate Bridge, requires you not only to play against your opponents at the same table, but to play better than other players playing in the same seat [...]
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Robyn Fleming writes about the evolution of gender and stereotype D&D in the latest Cerise Magazine. She looks at what’s up with 4e D&D’s online character creation and illustrations.
According to Robyn, things are looking up, but there’s still a ways to go.
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This is a “full-automatic” mah-jong table. Aside from looking sweet, and weighing 100 kg, it’s description reads:
Automatic Mahjong table adopts the working principle of electricity, light and magnetism, and it is controlled by microcomputer programs. It can effectively achieve the automatic shuffling and dealing of Poker tiles, and automatic dice tossing in a quick [...]
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Pinnacle Entertainment Group has teamed up with Digital Adventures to produce Savage Worlds Online, a website for Savage Worlds roleplaying using the Fantasy Grounds II virtual tabletop. The system allows players to create, run, and play adventures through their computers with others at distant locations. Savage Worlds Online also provides a forum and a calendar [...]
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Gleemax, the social experiment from Wizards of the Coast, has finally opened their Avalon Hill board games up to the public. They’re in alpha and free for a limited time.
So while you can, try out games like:
Robo Rally
Axis and Allies
Acquire
Guillotine
Vegas Showdown
as well as
Magic Online (a limited version)
Desktop Tower Defense (a popular computer game)
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The Kentucky Kernel, a student-run publication at the University of Kentucky, recently ran a story on the games club. Sure it had the expected references to Mountain Dew, Cheetos, and “stereotypical gamer physique,” but it was also among the nicest social assessments of dedicated gamers that I’ve seen in a general publication. The article quoted [...]
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Lost Cities, a popular two-player card game among Eurogamer cognoscenti, heads to the XBox today.
Given the popularity of Settlers and Carcassonne, it’s likely to be another big hit. Which leaves you to wonder:
People go on the XBox are finally being turned on to great Eurogames, and they’re playing them socially, too. Isn’t it time they [...]
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Boing Boing is hosting a game of “Pre-Cogs vs Replicants”, aka Mafia, aka Werewolf, on the #boingboing IRC channel today at 1pm EST.
Bring you’re wiles and guile.
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In what’s by far the longest posting I’ve ever seen on their website, Crave, the gadget blog by CNET, reviews the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition digital initiative. The article, complete with preview screen-shots, describes the platform’s character creation abilities, dungeon builder function, and game element database. Though not providing a whole lot of detail, [...]
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April Fools has come and gone, and many game related sites got into the spirit with fake press releases and product announcements.
Microsoft ran an advertisement for the XBox Live Board Game. In a fit of silliness, the board game requires the actual XBox to play, as it plugs in to the console via USB port.
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