Blogger kept saying they were going to restore the posts they wiped out, but that never happened. Instead, I've reconstructed them from ...

Wayne Schmittberger, my boss at Games Magazine, designed a new online contest based on Chinese Chess (Xiangqi). I haven't tried it ye...

Home Sheep Home is a remarkably popular free Java game featured on the Shaun the Sheep home page. It's a simple but immensely appealin...

Directed by Michael Bay, starring Johnny Depp as "Four-Block-L-Shaped-Piece," and with special effects by WETA Workshop! Okay, s...

Susan Polgar is reporting that Woman International Master Sona Perlova died last Sunday at the age of 23. She was diagnosed with cancer dur...

Blogger had some sort of meltdown and wiped my last couple days worth of posts. They're making noise about restoring them, but so far, n...

Last year around this time, Mattel announced that Scrabble would now "allow" proper nouns in play . (Mattel owns the rights to Scr...

CNN has a long story about Sid Meier's upcoming Civilization game for Facebook . The social gaming version of Civ, dubbed Civilization W...

Epic Gaming Con  is a new gaming convention being held this year in Las Vegas (June 16 – 19 at the Paris Hotel and Casino) and Philadelphia ...

I'm an avid Chestertonian , so I loved this shirt from Eternal Revolution , the makers of Uncle Chestnut's Table Gype . Make sure yo...

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Wow. I knew I made these hard, but I thought some Orlando visitors would have recognized some of them. No luck: no one figured out any of th...

Many people are familiar with the standard Tarot suits (the "Major Arcana") used for "divination" purposes, but they...

The new Z-Man newsletter is online in PDF , and it has details on 3 upcoming games: the tile-laying game  Mondo , an area-control game calle...

Game designer Alf Seegert sent me a couple of links about the progress of his upcoming game, The Road to Canterbury (Gryphon Games), which I...

Introduction This post is an explanation of an outdoor game I created for a Cub Scout event. It could just as easily be adapted for any ag...

While I was away, the online poker world suffered a complete meltdown. It may--and most likely will--emerge from the wreckage, but it will t...

I'm not sure if GAMES Magazine pioneered the Eyeball Bender, but we've certainly been publishing them for a few decades now. The ide...

But where was I? Can you tell from the picture? Normal blogging schedule will resume shortly. Much unpacking and catching-up to do.

Photo by Ellen van Deelen I'd been expecting to do a lot more posting this week, but I've been busy clearing my desk and getting ...