Games Overboard

Games are infiltrating our lives in more and more ways.  From Foursquare and Gowalla, to Starbucks points.  There are more and more ways to play games in our lives with everything we do. There’s a game designer and professor at Carnegie Mellon named Jesse Schell who believes that everything in life will soon become a [...]

I recently talked about the release of the Apple iPad and all its upcoming game releases, and I’m happy to tell everyone I just got an email from Days of Wonder Games telling me of their release of their first iPad game App.  Small World is now available in the App Store for purchase. If [...]

I’m sure most of you have played Dungeons & Dragons, and if you haven’t played then you’ve heard of the classic game.  (If you haven’t heard of it, then welcome to our planet.  Sorry for the mess, we weren’t expecting you.) Dungeon Lords, from creator Vlaada Chvatil, flips the age old game on its head. [...]

Recently, like last week, American Mensa, that group for really really smart people, released their picks for this years, Mensa Select recipients.  These selections?  Mensa’s top five board games of 2010. Now it should be obvious that Mensa people like board games, they’re all just a bunch of geeks like the rest of us, and [...]

Created by a Middle School Social Studies teacher, the not-yet-released game “King Phillip’s War” has come under fire from Native American tribes whose ancestors played parts in the battles from 335 years ago.  The game, which focuses on the battles led by King Phillip (or Metacomet of the Wampanoag sachem) and the British colonials in [...]