Board Game News has posted articles on the Toy Fair so far: one, two, three.

Playthings has one article so far: one.

About Board Games: one.

Boing Boing Gadgets has a picture gallery (I can’t get this to work on IE, only Firefox).

Toy Directory magazine’s top ten games from the Toy Fair.

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I Can Do That! games released three new Dr Seuss games for kids: Green Eggs & Ham, Order Up! Sam, Oh, the Places You’ll Go! The Game, and Oh the Wondrous Places You’ll Go! Travel Card Game.

They are, respectively, a fast-paced game of pattern matching, a game of learning about your family, and a game of learning about the world.

Another one from the New York Toy Fair. 

(press release)

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Hasbro’s CEO, Alfred Verrecchia, is stepping down. He will be replaced by current COO, Brian Goldner.

Verrecchia has spent 43 years at Hasbro and took over as president and chief executive in 2003, succeeding Alan Hassenfeld, a member of Hasbro’s founding family. Hassenfeld, the current board chairman, will step down as chair but remain a board member, the company said. Goldner joined Hasbro in 2000 from Bandai America Inc., becoming COO in 2006, and has helped Verrecchia orchestrate a comeback for the once-troubled company.

Hasbro’s prices are also set to rise to offset increasing costs.

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Results:

Jenga (board game) vs Jenga (video game): board game

Domino Rally (board game) ve Go Go Rally (video game): board game (not really a board game, it’s just setting up dominoes to fall down)

Scrabble (board game) vs Scrabble DS (video game): board game

Jigsaw Puzzle (board game) vs Jigsaw Puzzle: Kyo No Wanko (video game): video game (not really a board game, either)

Cranium (board game) vs Cranimum Kabooki (video game): video game

(read it)

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 Plants and Animals is an upcoming Canadian rock band. After a grueling day of interviews and photos, they let slip one of the group’s off-topic passions: Beyond Balderdash.

It’s like the first Balderdash, only instead of making up definitions, you get, like, a movie title and you have to come up with the plot synopsis that goes with it … I keep saying they should put it in casinos because a lot of my friends are really good at it. We could totally clean up.

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