Games Overboard

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.) Read the rest of this entry »

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 had available in Europe to the U.S. market.  I’ll be looking up some reviews first to see which are the best games, but I have to say, I’m pretty excited about this.

Source:  The Brothers Brick, LEGO

I’ll admit that as far as board games go, I’m a late bloomer. I only really started playing games in the last few years (when I met Brian.) Now, of course, I’m an avid player of all types of gaming.

One of my recent favorites is the game Tichu.  We have a review in the can on that one and it should be up soon.  It’s a great game and the only real drawback is the need for four people.  We can always seem to get three or five people together, but rarely the foursome. Read the rest of this entry »

As I recently mentioned, I’m working on updating the look of Games Overboard.  So I just wanted to drop a quick note about the update and ask for some feedback from all our viewers and readers.  I’ve got a test site up and running with what I’ve been able to cobble together so far, and I’d like to know what all of you think.

The test site is at geek-girls.com (a domain name I purchased years ago and never figured out what to do with.)  So if you could jump over there and take a look at what’s up so far.

I’d love any feedback from you, so if you could comment below and tell me what you think.  Now, I’m not done, but at this point I’d like to see if you can see anything I should have that I don’t.

One note, I will be putting a “Featured Review” section on the far right sidebar, but the code doesn’t seem to want to take.  Other than that, what do you think.  What color scheme should I use?  Is there something I should have but don’t?  Please comment below, and thanks ahead of time.

I got a bit curious this afternoon and thought I’d look up the largest board games ever.  First I did what anyone looking for a record would do; I went to the Guinness World Records site and searched there.

OK, I’m not going to get into basic design theory, search engine optimization, or site architecture, but suffice it to say that Guinness’ site fails on all fronts (much like me and Stratego, but that’s a different story.)  I didn’t find out what the largest board game was there, but I did find out they’re releasing a board game of their own. Read the rest of this entry »