And why not?

Angus Abranson of Leisure Games and Cubicle 7, Steve Dempsey of Places to Go, People to Be, Simon Rogers of Pelgrane Press and ProFantasy Software, and Graham Walmsley, author and member of Collective Endeavour, are asking for your ideas to start the British Gaming Awards recognizing the best of RPGs in 2008.

They’re just getting started, so check ‘em out.

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Mayer Foner, of M. Foner’s Games Only Emporium (aka That Game Place) has created a game called A Game About the Pennsylvania Underground Railroad 1820 to 1870. It’s based on a previous work called The Central PA Underground Railroad Game, about which I can find no information.

Each player gets 35 turns to escape without being caught and returned as a slave.

This wouldn’t be the first game about the Underground Railroad; Chattam Hill released one in 1993.

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Cashflow 101 is one of a select group of games whose publishers don’t treat as a game but as a learning aid. Under that guise, they promote the game at a seemingly ridicuous high price (in this case, $200), with the reasoning that the price is well worth it for the lessons the game imparts.

Owing to its high price, few people have played and reviewed the game, but Asia One did just that. Their review (actually, session report) is pretty illuminating as to the game’s contents and message.

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When last we heard, the lawsuits against Scrabluous by the makers of Scrabble and the eletronic editions of Scrabble hadn’t gone anywhere special. Mattel brought its own version of Scrabble to Facebook, but it’s arrival was greeted without much enthusiam, as a) it was only available to non-US or Canada residents, and b) it wasn’t much good (Scrabble fans: 1,544; Scrabulous fans: 14,655).

Now Hasbro’s team up with Electronic Arts and has produced its own version of Scrabble. It’s on Pogo, and will soon be on Facebook – for US and Canada residents only. One wonders if this is going to be a wholly separate game from Mattel’s version, and if so, what the hell is wrong with these people.

Location restrictions aside, let’s wait and see how good it is.

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The latest expansion for Settlers of Catan, Catan Traders & Barbarians, is now available in English from Mayfair Games. This add-on to the base Catan game includes rules and components for a two player game of Settlers, as well as event cards, several scenarios, a friendly robber, a harbor master, and a method for linking individual games into a longer campaign.

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