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.
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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)
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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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The latest Islam trivia game is Ka’abati, invented by Nora Mohamed Al Naama from Qatar.
She produced the game herself, after inspiration from a speech by Dr. Yusuf Al Qaradawi, president of the International Union for Muslim Scholars.
The game took three years to make.
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Guy Debord was a Marxist theorist, French writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International.
Apparently, he also considered his greatest work to be a board game he designed called The Art of War. It looks something like a convoluted Chess game and war game cross. Totality.tv on the game:
Beside [...]
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The Australian game show Spicks and Specks in the latest game show to plan a conversion to board game format.
The game will be a DVD game produced by Imagine Entertainment.
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The Tuscaloosa News features an article on Marisa Pena, designer of Cranium’s Zigity and Zooreka.
According to Marisa, most game designs at Cranium are a team effort:
Marisa says all of the ideas are really team efforts by the creative folks at Cranium who brainstorm, write and create the games in colorful office spaces that resemble Cranium [...]
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Clive Worth, age 58, from Pontyates in Wales, claims to have had ‘relationships’ with over 1,000 women. While discussing his numerous conquests in Grantham, he writes:
The ones I met from Grantham were very old-fashioned.
I always managed to get them in the end but I usually had to take them out more than once.
My technique would [...]
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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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