The great game inventor Robert Abbott  (Eleusis, Ultima, Epaminodas) sent along some very kind words about State of Play, as well as this il...

Grade: C Price: $1 I'm little slow getting back into the swing of the app thing since my Thanksgiving recess. My device is now cramme...

There's a crazy sale going on over at the Fantasy Flight web site , with deep discounts on over 150 items. You'll find games like  A...

Modiano , the major producer of Italian playing cards, offers this handy map of the various regions and their cards. At the very top of the ...

The "standard" Anglo-French-suited playing cards have eclipsed many of the regional playing cards common throughout the world, alo...

Kevin Schlabach of  Seize Your Turn continues to do an excellent Twitterstream digest, linking to all of the relevant board gaming news and...

Rabbi Simcha spins a mean dreidel, so go and learn from the master . When I was a kid, I attended a Jewish day camp during the summers, wh...

Tomorrow, I get back to blogging on my regular schedule. It was nice to have a week off, but it also made me realize that I’ve made this blo...

Courtesy of  boardgameoutlet.com . They scour the internet looking for deals so you don't have to. Please remember to use the link to ...

First, the important stuff. May you and your families and friends have a happy and blessed Thanksgiving. Bring some games. It's a good w...

Several months ago, I started writing this series about games played in Colonial America after a family trip to Williamsburg, Virginia. I pi...

This Thanksgiving week, I’m concluding the series on Colonial Gaming with an item that would have gotten you stocked if you played it in fr...

I'm going to take a bit of a break from the blog this week, what with kids home and family visiting to be done and my tryptophan addict...

Every generation or two, competitive Chess grips the imagination of the world outside of chess circles, and names like Paul Morphy, Bobby Fi...

Grade: A Price: $1 I'll make this easy: every app and Flash clone of JTR's Death Worm is about 90% less entertaining than the rea...

Okay,  Toy Vault , you got my attention. I don't know a whole lot about their upcoming board game Godzilla: Kaiju World Wars , but I k...

Grade: A Price: $7 App versions of major console or PC titles always feel a bit like consolation prizes. They'll never be as flashy o...

So you clicked on this post today and thought, "Are you on crack, McDonald? A sequel to a Mario game as the best game for the entire ye...

Grade: B Price: $1 No one, in either Flash or app form, has managed to quite capture the bike trials format as well as the original Trial...

This was the first year we added mobile games to the Games Magazine  Games 100 awards We chose to focus on Apps, rather than on other mobil...