Pulling Strings by Blue Panther is an abstract game where you try to move five disks into your home positions from the middle of the board.
The original game comes with English alphabet and sign language disks for specifying rows and columns on the board. New expansion packs add 1) Roman numerals and 2) Greek letters [...]
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Paris Hilton, about whom their is very little to say other than that people say many things about her and that she is heir to a large fortune, is spending more time indoors playing Monopoly.
Apparently dating (rock star Benji Madden) has made her less of a socialite and more domestic. Finally.
(source)
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On a flight from Washington D.C. to Portland, OR, the press challenged Barack Obama and his staff to a game of Taboo.
Obama’s team won, despite not having any good questions for the clue “cockatoo”.
After the first win the press wanted a re-match–which the staff agreed to–but Obama teasingly asked how long the game goes on [...]
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Goblin Slayer is a new free downloadable two-player fantasy board game from Shrapnel Games.
One player controls Stormbeard the dwarf on his quest for the Shimmering Widget, while the other leads the throngs of goblins in hopes of striking the dwarf down and then possibly eating him; dwarf kidneys are sometimes considered a delicacy in the [...]
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Google Techtalk interviewed Matt Leacock on the formation and design of Pandemic, the new hit cooperative board game about fighting a disease outbreak.
Matt is a hobbyist, and he compares the design of Pandemic to software design.
(hat tip)
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Playthings reports that Pressman Toy will produce board games based on The Mr. Men Show, which airs on Cartoon Network, and Domo, the mascot of Japanese television station NHK and soon to be the subject of an animated series on Nicktoons Network.
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Online game seller Troll and Toad has bought a $150,000 game collection from a single collector, Ken Fonarow.
Fonarow’s collection contains 20,000 games acquired over a 25 year period, and includes games once owned by Charles Roberts. Troll and Toad spokesman Ryan Severin says that the collection doubles their board game holdings.
(source)
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Scrabulous, the Facebook Scrabble game that Hasbro and Mattel treat as a thorn in their side, has become a platform for more than just word games.
According to an article on Nerve, so many people were looking for sex talk using the application that they player’s not wanting adult conversation had to explicitly say so, until [...]
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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)
(link)
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I’m a fan of pirate stories and pirate games. I very much enjoy GMT Games‘ last pirate game, the Euro-styled Winds of Plunder. But I’m particularly interested in the true history of the golden age of piracy, so the newest offering from GMT has got me very excited. The company is now shipping Blackbeard by [...]
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