Games Overboard

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.)

If you’ve ever had the opportunity to play with the Microsoft Surface you’ll know that the system in unique in many ways.  It’s multi-touch, can detect physical items placed on it and interpret what they are, and it’s beautiful. Having had an opportunity to play Chess and Checkers on one a few months ago, I [...]

We’ve all done it.  We’ve promised ourselves, our spouses, and our wallets that there would be no new game spending.  And like a heroin addict, we;ve broken that promise.  We can’t help it.  There are so many new shiny games out there. To make matters, worse there are people like us here at Games Overboard [...]

First things first.  Whoa, how did it get to be Sunday already?!?  We definitely missed a couple days where we should have had something new and exciting up.  To all of our loyal viewers you have our humblest apologies. We do have another review in the can, and it should be edited and up tomorrow.  [...]