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Publisher Blizzard is partnering with Hasbro's USAopoly to release World of Warcraft Monopoly and StarCraft Risk, it said today. So now you can take breaks from your World of Warcraft and StarCraft sessions to play World of Warcraft and StarCraft. More »
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Lies, bloodshed, betrayal! Power and influence, secrets and whispers, fragile alliances shattered in heartache and death! Also, lots of intense, weird sex. These are the things I think of when I think of Game of Thrones. More »
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About a month ago, I wrote the following post about "The Metagame," a fun card game dedicated to fostering debate about video games. Right as I published it, however, the folks behind the game ran out of inventory. They've just gotten more printed, so I thought I'd re-post now that you can order your own deck. More »
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I haven't yet been able to track down a copy of the new Game of Thrones board game, let alone carve out four to eight hours to sit down and play through a game. But from the sound of things, that might be for the best. Not because it's bad, but because it requires so much deviousness and backstabbery that it can cost you your real-life friends. More »
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Competitive board games started as a pastime for the elite, spreading to Europe during Roman conquest, according to a new study published in Antiquity. More »
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I've seen plenty of 3D versions of the hit multiplayer board game The Settlers of Catan , but nothing quite as impressive as these 3D game pieces, ready to by 3D printed and shipped from Shapeways. More »
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The tactical espionage action of Metal Gear Solid meets the world-conquering strategy of Risk for Australia-nuking, Outer Haven-occupying fun with RISK: Metal Gear Solid. You can get it now. And now might be a very good time to do so. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5846262&view=rss&microfeed=true Into board games? You should check out Vassal, an open source board game engine that lets you add board games to Windows/Mac/Linux. Many supported games feature the real art but lack A.I. so you have to move the pieces yourself. More »
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There are plenty of ways to play classic board game Settlers of Catan. You can play it on Xbox 360, for example. Or the iPhone. Hell, you could even play the actual board game. More »
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While I may never get to play the cel-shaded Castle of Cagliostro video game of my dreams, I was happy to hear that the Italian board game publisher Ghenos Games will be putting out a board game based on the adventures of the animated film's protagonist, Lupin III. (And hey, from the sound of things, Level 5's Ni No Kuni is as close as we're gonna to get to a playable Miyazaki film. And by the sound of things, that's gonna be just fine by me). More »
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First unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con earlier this year, here's our first look at the retail version of the game that blends the strategy of Risk with the game design of Metal Gear Solid... No, it doesn't come with cut-scenes. More »
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The biggest problem with iPhone gaming at the moment is that, thanks to the lack of control options, it's hard to play a game with much meat to it. This rather left-field solution may have a...solution to that. More »
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In today's maddening installment of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Wirebrain shares with us a board game that feels a lot like Capcom's famous survival horror series. More »
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There are bullet holes on the dice, Marcus and Dom figurines on the board and up to four people around the table, playing co-operatively in Gears of War: The Board Game. More »
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The classic board game Risk is getting a turbocharged (and somewhat controversial) update in the form of Risk: Legacy. In Legacy, players will permanently mark up and change their boards, each round leaving the battlefield permanently altered. Sounds… kind of epic, actually. More »
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Spied at PAX East and spec'd out in May, Gears of War: The Board Game may not have a release date but there is mounting evidence that, against all odds, this is actually a thing. More »
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Metal Gear Solid is getting its very own version of Risk, "the game of strategic conquest," adding Private Military Contractors, a movable continent, the cast of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and the option to launch a nuke from Metal Gear Rex. More »
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"Snake? SNAAAKE?! It's your roll." You too can make this ill-conceived attempt at a joke with the forthcoming Metal Gear Solid-themed edition of classic strategy board game Risk, a game not surprisingly titled Risk: Metal Gear Solid. More »
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There's another game coming based on zombie apocalypse of Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead, but this is one you can play when the electricity goes out. More »
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The visceral thrill of Gears of War is (indeed) coming to a tabletop near you with Gears of War: The Board Game, the latest video game to board game adaptation from Fantasy Flight Games. More »
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Put down the controller and dig through the closet for the dusty remains of childhood memories courtesy of commenter Vlyke615, reminiscing about his favorite board games in today's Speak-Up on Kotaku. More »
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Physical design, gameplay design, either way this custom Tron Light Cycles Board Game is a straight-up winner. Built by a modder to play with his sons, this one-of-a-kind, laser-etched board with tinted acrylic jet walls is like a Franklin Mint Chess Set from a very, very awesome future. More »
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Lacking anything more sensible to do, the team at GlazeBros crafted a crude board game with painful consequences, and then tested it out on themselves. Ladies and gentlemen, The Waxing Game, family fun that will leave you hairless. More »
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LEGO.com offers a service called Design by Me that allows hobby brick builders to dream up their own creations for which LEGO will do a one-off creation, complete with custom box. All of this is for a price. And the price for Cal Henderson's LEGO Carcassonne is high. More »
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The offline social game you play with your friends becomes the online social game you play with your friends with Monopoly Millionaires, the Facebook game where everybody gets their own Monopoly board. More »
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The Plants Vs. Zombies board game is real. This is a prototype, essentially the rough draft of the game that the people at Screenlife are planning on making. I spotted it at Toy Fair 2011 where it was so new it wasn't even in Screenlife's printed brochure. More »
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If you treasure all that time spent building Mousetrap's contraption and its inevitable collapse midway through, then Angry Birds: Knock on Wood, a board game due later this year from Mattel, is perfect for you. Yes, it has a slingshot. More »
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I picked up a board game over the holidays: Risk Halo Wars. The Halo-themed version of the Parker Brothers classic turned out to be quite a bit of fun. More »
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Coverage last week of the concentration camp first-person shooter Sonderkommando Revolt may have raised curiosity about how people would play a game about the Holocaust. More »
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I'm a gamer. And if you're reading this site, you're probably one, too. Gamers like, well, games, and our games of choice now are video games. But gamers, as a breed, are nothing new. Recent archaeological findings continue to support just that. More »
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Top players have spent lifetimes mastering the subtle nuances of chess, but when a quantum physics twist is added to the age-old classic, it's anybody's games. More »
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Last month we took a close look at a new version of classic board game Settlers of Catan, one being readied for Microsoft's giant touch-screen computer. Since then, a new build of the game has been released. More »
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From the creators of the World of Warcraft and StarCraft board games comes Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game, the second board game inspired by the addictive turn-based strategy game. More »
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For as long as we've known the pair, video games have been video games, and board games have been board games. But as time and technology march on, could two become, as the Spice Girls say, one? More »
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This may look like the work of a prankster, some PhotoShop kid with too much time on their hands, but no, this was once (and still is, I guess) a real thing. More »
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Finally, a reason to buy an iPad: there's a version of classic (and highly addictive) board game Carcassonne on the way. More »
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Nintendo's turn-based wargame Advance Wars works well as a video game. But as a board game? Yeah, looks like it works pretty well as a board game, too. More »
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It's snowing right now, very hard actually, blizzard-like in fact. And I'm off. Yes, I know I'm writing this, but I am in fact off. But first, I need your help. More »
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Classic German board game Carcassonne - which has already turned up on Xbox Live Arcade - will also soon be making the leap to the Nintendo DS, courtesy of Koch Media. More »
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Add Risk: Halo Wars to the list of Halo titles being released in 2009. The board game follows up the Halo Interactive Strategy Game released last year. Try to contain your nerd-ons, guys. More »
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