Board Game News

The preeminent board game award committee the Spiel des Jahres - or German Game of the Year - has chosen Dominion [ Amazon , Funagain ] as the best game of the 2008.

Decision Games has released a new demo version of War in Europe - Windows Edition .

Many parents are cutting spending on vacations and lavish toys, but spending more on board games for home Sunday, July 05, 2009 Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette Brad and Shannon Mocharko play Cranium's Balloon Lagoon with their son Logan, 2, and daughter Brianna, 4, in their Penn Hills home.

During my London trip, I bought "The Settlers of Catan" - after I read this review in Wired magazine a few months ago.

Members of Coffee and Games and More, a Meetup group, share a laugh as they try out the board game Rummikub for the first time June 27 at It's a Grind coffee shop.

Credit the recession for staycations and bringing us more game-night parties at home.

Families are saving money by spending more time closer to home these days, but that doesn't mean you have to sit home alone, one expert says.

Some people might find it hard to believe that they could enjoy playing games without hooking up to a computer or a Wii console.

Nothing is sacred, or too plotless, to make into a movie these days, it seems. As if idea of the '80s TV show Full House being considered for a big screen adaptation weren't horrific enough, Universal has acquired the rights to make the 1979 arcade game Asteroids into a feature film.

In a story that could open up a whole new thread on the Voice Mail show, Universal Pictures has optioned the big-screen rights to the classic video-game "Asteroids." The studio won a bidding war between four studios for the rights to produce the Matthew Lopez written pictures.A The movie will beA produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

Publisher Mayfair Games has announced plans to release Witch of Salem, an English-language edition of Der Hexer von Salem, in August or September 2009, according to a report on BoardGameNews.com . This cooperative game, based on a series of novels by German author Wolfgang Hohlbein , is set in early 20th century New England.

Hasbro Games Channel Coming to Xbox Live Arcade Posted by Justin Engelmann on 06.30.2009 Boggle, Yahtzee, Connect Four and others amongst the classic board games being prepared by Electronic Arts.

Card, arcade, classic, puzzle, chess, logic, word; you can download iphone games of any category you wish for and the greatest news is that nowadays most of the games are available in the internet absolutely free.

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Transformers grossing $700 billion internationally last summer didn't just guarantee a sequel - as you may be aware, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is out this week - but another, more unique, Hollywood development: the optioning of a bewildering string of childhood-entertainment entities.

Macgamestore.com today announced the release of CLUE Accusations and Alibis for the Mac through its web site and digital download service, Mac Games Arcade.

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What better way to enjoy the warm weather than a picnic! After months of eating at the kitchen table or around the coffee table, a change of scenery is much needed.

A MUM from Eastbourne is enjoying the success of a quirky game that she and a friend co-created. Roma Slade thought up a cheeky adults-only version of a classic children's game which was inspired after years of playing different board games with her own children.

Board games have been around for literally centuries, from stone checkers which date back to early China, to the Japanese pastime "Go", and up to the modern game of Cranium and Logik, board games have been a part of the world's culture and pass-time for many, many generations, and will continue to for years to come.