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Crowdfunding Is Driving A $196 Million Board Game Renaissance
The trend in the number of successfully funded games coming out of Kickstarter is dramatic and shows little sign of slowing.
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Provincetown Carnival parade a rainbow confection
Rainbow colors were in full display Thursday for the annual Carnival parade, where the Candyland theme served up a campy confection for an estimated crowd of 100,000. One of the most over-the-top celebrations on Cape Cod, held the third Thursday of every August, the parade was a block party of creative costumes, thumping music, heat and the usual colorful human wave.
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Arkham Horror, the 1987 and 2005 editions
Board game: 1987 edition: 6/10, primitive, overly difficult to win, but fun. 2005 edition: 7/10, flawed but fun.
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What are your top five favorite board games?
Whether it's the infamously essential Monopoly or the legendary Dungeons and Dragons, everyone has a favorite non-digital game. What board game (or tabletop game) do you enjoy? What are the next four? Come and discuss your choices!
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Word up: The secret story of Scrabble
Obama and the British Royal Family play it, and its fans are some of the world’s most devoted. So why did the word game almost fail to take off? Hephzibah Anderson has the answer.
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Word up: The secret story of Scrabble
Obama and the British Royal Family play it, and its fans are some of the world’s most devoted. So why did the word game almost fail to take off? Hephzibah Anderson has the answer.
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Don't worry, board games: video games can't steal what makes you great
Sure, videogames should steal from board games. But they can’t steal the best aspects of being round a table with people
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After 40 Years, Dungeons & Dragons Still Brings Players To The Table
Michael Witwer, who has written a book about game co-creator Gary Gygax, says D&D does something that online games don't: It brings players physically together to participate in group storytelling.
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Do Not Pass “Bo”: Archaeologists Unearth 2,300-Year-Old Board Game in China
It includes a 14-face die carved from an animal tooth, 21 rectangular game pieces featuring painted numbers, and a broken tile that once made up part of the game board.
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Geek & Sundry’s Top 5 Board Games of the Year | Geek and Sundry
2015 was an amazing year for games but here are our top 5 board games of the year.
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► WTF Is... - Talisman: The Horus Heresy ?
TotalBiscuit takes a look at the newest digital board game from Nomad Games.
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The 1980s Media Panic Over Dungeons & Dragons
These days your life isn’t complete if you aren’t part of a role-playing gaming group, but it wasn’t that long ago that playing Dungeons & Dragons was seen as a surefire ticket to madness and damnation. During the 1980s, D&D became associated with violence and teen suicide, casting a spell over the media that resulted in some strident anti-fantasy propaganda.
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Making the Case for Paperless Monopoly
Much as we love the idea of paperless anything, doesn't paperless Monopoly take the fun out of it? Well...maybe not.
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WTF Is... - Gremlins, Inc. ?
TotalBiscuit takes a look at a recently released strategy digital board game from Alexey Bokulev , Sergei Klimov and Charlie Oscar Lima Tango Interactive Entertainment.
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Google's Go victory shows AI thinking can be unpredictable, and that's a concern
Google's artificial intelligence made a surprise move in the recent Go challenge that has some people worried about what happens when AI makes a non-human decision that we could not anticipate.
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Board games make a comeback in Toronto
In this digital age, gaming battles usually take place in complex, software-driven worlds - on computers and and smartphones.
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Hnefatafl: the Game of the Vikings
A website discussing the Hnefatafl, a game played by the Scandinavian peoples during the middle ages.
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When Dungeons & Dragons Set Off a ‘Moral Panic’
Going back at least to the 1690s, when the elders of colonial Salem, Mass., executed 20 women and men for supposedly practicing witchcraft, there have been Americans who find the devil’s hand in all manner of human activity. Satanic messages have been ascribed to the corporate symbols of major companies like Starbucks and Procter & Gamble. Some religious fundamentalists are certain that 666, the number of the beast in the Book of Revelation, lurks in swirls...
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How the World’s Oldest Printed Board Game Rolled Propaganda into Play
Long before the era of Candy Crush and Neko Atsume, the games that captured our attention were often the ones that required just a board, a dice or two, and a handful of tokens.
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Million Dollars, But... The Game Announcement
Introducing Million Dollars, But... The Game! The Kickstarter goes live at 12:01pm CT. Available for pre-order at http://MDBGame.com
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