The families of American Idol contestants are forbidden to talk to the media until the season ends. So how do they pass the time?
They go to the American Idol Ministry, set up by Leesa Bellesi, a pastor’s wife in a Lake Forest backyard. There they cheer, give support, eat barbecues and play Ping Pong and [...]
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Wizards of the Coast is running an art contest on Worth1000 for promotional materials featuring the iconic Dungeons & Dragons monster, the Beholder. The top three entries will each receive prizes of $100.
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The gaming automation trend continues with poker. Crave points us to this device for dealing cards:
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The Tierney Labs blog of the New York Times ran a three-part article and multi-media series on fool’s bets, including a Flash version of the Monty Hall problem and similar problems.
The math and psychology are worth checking out.
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As reported here, on Board Game News, and many other places, Mattel’s profits sunk last quarter owing to product recalls and falling licensing sales.
Nevertheless, Mattel’s CEO, Robert Eckert, still pulled in a compensation package of $12.2 million, a net 68 percent increase from the previous year.
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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 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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NYC24 reports on a surge in popularity of board games, quizzes, and trivia nights in NYC barrooms, where people are searching for organized social face-to-face experiences.
Michael Evanchik, one of the organizers of the popular debate night at Lolita Bar on the Lower East Side said people like to be challenged, even while hanging out with [...]
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Hasbro up 9% adjusted for foreign exchange rates. (source)
Mattel down 2% : down 11% domestically and up 8% internationally. (source)
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Vivid is going to create a board game based on the BBC game show The Kids Are All Right. This follows Vivid’s board game based on Golden Balls.
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Can I just take a moment to complain about the final game in Golden Balls? I watched one episode when I was in England last summer.
In the final [...]
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