Following up on his superb online course, Scott Nicholson has written a book elaborating on his advice for managing game programs in libraries. As an Associate Professor at Syracuse University, host of fun board game video...

An inspired presentation by Chris McInnis at Ignite: London on the awesomeness of board games:

Crisloid has teamed up with the World Series of Backgammon to put out a new line of official WSoB products. The product line includes both attache and tabletop Backgammon sets, checker sets, dice cups, and doubling cubes....

Time to throw all of those Toy Story 2 items in the trash. We’ve got Toy Story 3 items now. Despite the grand creativity of the Pixar storytellers, it should come as no surprise that this...

Dylan Loeb McClain is my new favorite blogger; he writes the Chess blog Gambit for the NY Times website, and I find myself tempted to link to nearly everything he writes. Two of his latest are...

Up on PCB-DEV they’ve got a DIY surface-like electronic gaming table. The demonstration version was created to play physical games on the board against opponents on freechess.org . Here’s a video. ( source )

Two years ago we reported on how part-time swimsuit model Alexandra Kosteniuk is also a world Chess champion. Now we get to tell you that the world’s number one ranked Chess player Magnus Carlsen has become...

Take a good look. This is BP’s official oil spill boardgame, made in the 1970′s. Kind of ironic, eh? Offshore Oil Strike is supposedly rare.  I couldn’t even find a copy of it on eBay. (...

Land-based, on-line poker system – The idea of a poker game where some of the participants sit around the table and some play in their rooms via WAN. Trivial and obvious. By Maurice Mills. Method and...

Land-based, on-line poker system – The idea of a poker game where some of the participants sit around the table and some play in their rooms via WAN. Trivial and obvious. By Maurice Mills. Method and...