Games Overboard

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 [...]

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 [...]

I recently got this email from one of our followers in the UK: Hey guys, I was just watching your review for “Dominion” and decided to come over to your website. I was wondering if you could help me out, I’m at University in Lancaster in the UK and I recently created a 2 player [...]

I have to admit that I’m not a Monopoly player anymore.  Ever since I taught Liv my strategy of “buy everything and damn the expense” she’s won every game, and frankly I think the dice hate me.  So I just stopped playing. But that said, some of my favorite gaming memories from childhood revolve around [...]