Mattel is partnering with Qualcomm to experiment in converting their traditional games to AR versions. One prototype, demonstrated in the following ridiculous video, is Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots. ( source )

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...

Battles of Westeros from Fantasy Flight Games is now available. Labeled “A BattleLore Game,” it’s design clearly drew a lot of inspiration from Richard Borg’s Commands & Colors system. However, it seems to me that FFG...

And the winners are: Wings of War – Best historical miniature figure or line Flames of War: North Africa – Best miniature games rules or supplement Wings of War: WW2 Deluxe – Best miniature game rules...

Tuesday sees the release of Leave It To Beaver: The Complete Series on DVD. In addition to all 234 episodes of this 1957-1963 television comedy, the boxed set includes a reproduction of the 1959 Leave It...

Disaster Game is a new activity tool intended to generate discussions about coping with various disasters. It comes in two versions, a company and a family version, and either set contains two 52 card decks (with...

Congratulations are in order for Jean-Louis Roubira . Dixit , the artistic, storytelling party game has won this year’s Spiel Des Jahres . The Spiel Des Jahres is the German game-of-the-year award, and is one of the...

Avalanche Press is set to begin shipping a number of new war game products, including: Battle of the Bulge —A reprint of the Panzer Grenadier boxed game. They Shall Not Pass —A Game in a Book...

We had a chance to briefly talk with Colby Dauch at Origins, the man behind Plaid Hat Games and the designer of one of my top games of 2009, Summoner Wars. Colby indicated that things had...