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Friday, July 29, 2011

Struggle for Catan: Tutorial

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There's a new interactive tutorial available to give you a taste of Struggle for Catan. Check it out .

Kenken: Sudoku With Math

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Kenken is a Sudoku variant invented by Tetsuya Miyamoto as a way to teach math. Frankly, Sudoku bores me senseless, but I found the addi...

Cribbage in the Field (Minneapolis Event)

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I had an email from Jordan Wiklund, who writes about cribbage at Cribbageland , and is currently at work on a book of the same name. In coll...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Battleship: The Trailer of The Movie of The Game

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Otherwise known as " What Transformers Hath Wrought ". I thought Battleship might have made a decent period war movie, but that ap...
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Consoles Now Only 40% Of the Videogame Market Says ...

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... the CEO of Electronic Arts, John Riccitiello. It used to be 80%. In an interview with Industry Gamers , the big boss of the biggest game...

Rory’s Story Cubes

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Rory’s Story Cubes (GameWright, $8) is not so much a game is it is a “creative story generator.” Designed by Irishman Rory O'Connor as a...
Monday, July 25, 2011

App O' The Mornin': Candy Train

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Rating: A Price: Free Sometimes, the quality of a game is measured by the degree of frustration it can create while still drawing you back ...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Apples to Oranges: Apples to Apples MOD

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I played Apples to Apples MOD (a slim travel edition) during vacation, and the cards were awful: a lot of celebrities and pop culture refere...
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DC/Marvel Teaming With Lego

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This isn't gaming news, but it touches on two beloved subjects here at Casa McD: superheroes and Lego. Starting January 2012, Lego will ...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

LostWinds Coming to Mobile Devices

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Eurogamer is announcing that LostWinds, a really clever little puzzle/platforming game, is coming to mobile devices later this year. This c...

Days of Wonder: Memoir '44 Out of Beta & Small World Underground

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When I loaded up Days of Wonder's new online version of Memoir '44, I could swear my copy said it was still in beta, and mentioned t...

PUZZLE: Tabling the Question

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I haven't done a math puzzle in a while, so here's an old one to strain the average brain. (And by that I mean my brain: in the past...
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A Closer Look: French Tarot: Trumps 15 & 16

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Many people are familiar with the standard Tarot suits (the "Major Arcana") used for "divination" purposes, but they...
Monday, July 18, 2011

App O' The Mornin': Tiny Tower

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Grade: B Price: freemium (extra in-game money can be purchased) Compulsion loop games are not one of my favorite categories. Any title th...

Your Turn: The Games Magazine Electronic Games 100

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It's that time of year again. For the next two months, I will be working with my crack staff to compile and write the Electronic Games 1...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

Shaun the Sheep: The Hedge Maze

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Because I won't ever pass up an opportunity to put Shaun the Sheep on my blog, here's a picture of the giant new Shaun corn maze tha...

Snapdragon: A Festive Children's Game Played With Flaming Food

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Thou art easier swallowed than a flapdragon. Wm. Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost In Lewis Carroll's  Through the Looking Glass...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

D-Day Dice

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Since we're talking about D-Day , let's linger a little longer and turn our attention to Emmanuel Aquin and his print-and-play game ...

Memoir '44: Play Online

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Days of Wonder has launched an online version of their best-selling casual war game, Memoir '44 . Like many DOW games, Memoir '44 ge...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

EA Buys PopCap For ...

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... $1.3 billion. (It sounds better if you use a Dr. Evil voice.) That can buy a lot of zombie-eating plants. Congrats to the PopCap folks. ...
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