Games Overboard

The Ticket to Ride World Championship will take place on June 19 in the Musée de la Carte à Jouer (Card Game Museum) in Issy-les-Moulineaux. The national champions will play several games on the various maps of Ticket to Ride – the best of them will then be declared Ticket to Ride World Champion and win [...]

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 [...]

For those who don’t know, tonight from 8:30 to 9:30pm (local) is Earth Hour sponsored by the WWF.  To support Earth Hour you’re supposed to turn off as many electrical devices as possible in your home. We would like to suggest another option while your lights, television, and refrigerator are off.  Forget the XBox and Wii and [...]

While we’re not going to be able to make it to the Western Michigan Gamer’s Guild 15th annual convention, Marmalade Dog 15, this weekend, we wanted to shout out to all our friends and wish them a great weekend.  Let us know if you come across any new games we would be interested in. If [...]

I just wanted to throw out some recent articles I’ve found about board games in our live today to share with everyone. This one is about a grant given in Superior, WI to four seventh graders to purchase board games for their gaming club.  I wish I were smart enough to write a grant proposal [...]