Folks were bullish over Mattel’s acquisition of the Monster High license , but their line of dolls aimed at girls has caused some ire. The dolls’ figures appear to out-Barbie Barbie, and the dolls’ descriptions indicate...

At the SXSW Screenburn 2011, IngZ, Inc has announced that it is developing Traveller-AR ; a Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) RPG based on the Traveller RPG for the iPhone. Players will get to pick a character...

The One Page Dungeon Contest 2011 is now open for submissions until April 1 at 0:00 GMT. Contestants will have to create a ‘dungeon’ (the definition is used very loosely here) with rooms, complete with a...

Choices , chaired by Jocelyn Duncan, makes a number of different board/card game/activities intended for group discussion and education. Topics include bipolar depression, self-harm, overdose, sleep, hepatitis c, self-injecting, marijuana, alcohol, smoking, and anxiety. Each board/card...

UK’s venerable toy giant Tomy has acquired leading US toy company RC2 in a $640 million deal. RC2 doesn’t have much in the way of games; neither does Tomy, really, though they have a few plastic...

The ENnie Awards , in association with Gamer Adventures , is giving away two tickets to go on board a Carnival cruise for a 5 day trip around the Caribbean, filled with roleplayers and boardgamers and...

I’ve been playing Battletech nearly as long as I’ve been playing games – so when Catalyst Game Labs asked if we wanted to take a look at their newest box set weeks before it’s launch…well, let’s...

TopTime is yet another spinning toy, this one from Basic Concepts. In this one, you launch the top, catch it on a disk in which a maze is embedded, and must navigate through certain points in...

A t-shirt for sale over at Threadless . I guess in this economy, even Mr. Moneybags is affected. The shirt is $20, which seems a bit much. Then again, Threadless is known to do $10 sales....

Stronghold Games has brought back Survive , a Parker Brothers classic from the 1980s. The goal in this game is to escape sinking Atlantis with as many people as possible before the volcano erupts. The other...