To cap off it’s holiday fund-raising effort, for today only, and just the first 100 customers, the online campaign management tool Obsidian Portal is giving away free memberships in return for donations to the Child’s Play...

Campaigns in Russia is a package of three new Eastern Front hex-and-counter war games from publisher Victory Point Games and veteran designer Frank Chadwick. Based on the system in Battle for Moscow , which Frank originally...

In anticipation of the World School Chess Championship and the FIDE Congress, 100 larger-than-human rooks are being erected all over Krakow. ( source ) Source doesn’t say who’s doing the erecting, nor who took the pictures,...

AEG will be launching this spring Nightfall , a game of horror, with cards representing vampires, werewolves, ghouls, and other creatures of the night. Yes, it’s another deck-building game, but one with several interesting twists. In addition...

If the $150 wood set is too much for you but you still need something to better hold your cardboard Settlers of Catan tiles, then consider the Settlers Hex Board . It’s a $30 plastic frame,...

A few days before BoardGameGeek, currently the Internet’s only comprehensive source for information about board and card games, announced its first month with over 2,000,000 unique visitors , a new competitor with muscle announced that it...

Atamaii is holding a 30% off sale on various toys and games, including Bakugan . The ZeroFortitude Podcast is giving away a copy of the Hellas RPG . Use the coupon code “holidaze” for 50% off...

The Settlers of Catan 15th Anniversary Edition includes wood tiles, cards with new art, and even building-cost summaries printed on wood hexagons, all in a nice wood box.

Our game criminal roundups are mostly a result of Google News alerts. It’s fair to say that a great majority of game related violence is not reported (assaults, petty robberies, and so on), or not noted...

Gatecrashing is a new Eclipse Phase supplement that details 30 alien worlds and the Pandora Gates that lead to them. In addition to new morphs, equipment, implants, and traits, the book includes guidelines for a GM...