Standalone game (can also be combined, natch), new races, new maps, a new mechanic (relics), and “some additional features that will make it even more tactical” according to DoW PR. The rule book is not yet...

I’m starting a contest for the best Settler of Catan song, starting right ….. now. OK, contest is over. There is one submission: It comes in second place. Lyrics at source .

Bistourisq from French sggc Derideo editions is a board game celebrating cosmetic surgery and the search for the perfect body. Each player plays patient and doctor. Assemble body parts into a “horrible” body and then run...

InStructures (by sggc Jane’s Games): One player sees an object and instructs the other players how to build the object. Pastiche (by FRED Distribution’s Gryphon Games): An interesting looking game of mixing colors to produce the...

Board Game Info will be giving away several games over the near future. First up is Those Pesky Humans from Minion Games . Just leave a comment to be entered into the drawing. A...

I don’t know that this will be a weekly post; maybe as long as there are five or more new projects. We’ll see how it develops. Some major players again this week. I’m wondering if Hasbro,...

NECA has bought Icarus Studios , which is designing an online version of HeroClix. ( source ) The long-running Scrabble News abandoned its print and paper offering and is now online-only. ( source ) Game Briefs...

You missed the casting call for Hasbro’s Family Game Night on The Hub in Los Angeles, which was yesterday. You can still make it to the one in Irvine in two weeks. There will be another...

Hasbro’s profits dropped 71% in Q1 2011 against Q1 2010 ($58.9 million to $17.2 million; source ). However, revenues were about the same for both quarters, which means that they took in the same amount of...

Studio 360 talks with famed game designer Brenda Brathwaite about Monopoly , old and new. Together, they invite listeners to submit ideas by May 1 on how to make the game into something playable. Brenda will...