Games Overboard

I work as a manager for a local web company and one of the larger challenges I face on a daily basis is motivating my employees.  In the past I’ve tried talking to them, increasing training on product knowledge, and even bribes.  (I offered a cake to anyone who sold double their monthly goal.)  Sadly, [...]

Rare doesn’t even begin to describe the recent purchase of the Nazi Luftwaffe game “The Eagle Defense Game” (or Adler Luftverteidigungs Spiel in the original German.)  As this is possibly the only remaining copy of the game, purchaser Alan Goldsmith has to consider himself a lucky man.
The game, created by a Luftwaffe officer, challenges players [...]

While I’ve never played World of Warcraft (the closest I’ve gotten was the Leroy Jenkins video) I thought this was worth sharing.  What if the addicting MMORPG were a real-life game with the goal of being a better husband?

Yes, you read that correctly.  According to the AMC news feed a film version of the classic game Monopoly is in the works.
It looks like Ridley Scott (of Alien and Black Hawk Down) is slated to direct the film which plans to release sometime in 2012.  (A surer sign of that year’s prophesied Apocalypse.)

I loved playing with LEGOs® when I was a kid, and if I had the time, money, and space I’d still be playing with them today.  Well now I can combine my love of board games with my love of LEGOs®.
LEGO has recently announced that it will now sell the board games they’ve built and [...]