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The Biggest Loser Round Table Challenge board game, based on the TV show, retails for $40, but you can get it today for $15 and $6 flat shipping within Australia.

That’s right. Cheap shipping ONLY for Australia. Eat that, everyone else.

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Last month we reported on how Kvale Good Natured Games is looking for funding. Here’s a novel way to try to get funding, and raise your company’s profile at the same time.

Boost Your Business 2008 is a $100,000 investment award from Forbes Magazine which will be given to one company that submits a 30 second pitch about their business. Kvale, along with 19 others survived the first round. You can now vote for them to make the final five.

You can view their pitch here.

Chimaera Giveaway

A release date has been set for the Chimaera Universe Roleplaying Game, and to celebrate Chimaera is giving away free comics. You can download the comics at Wowio, where the free issues include Hellhounds 1-5, Lonebow 1-2, and Wargod 1-2. And that RPG release—it’ll be in September by Mongoose Publishing.

Eva Longoria and Posh Spice (aka Victoria Beckham) are opening a second branch of their Hollywood restaurant Beso, and it will be a games cafe.

Victoria and Eva are dominoes fanatics (as are many celebrities), and half the space will be devoted to games such as dominoes, Mah Jong, Chicken Foot and Cut-Throat.

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RPG Bloggers Network

RPG Bloggers is a site which features extracts from the posts of a group of fine RPG bloggers (natch).

It may be a convenient way to follow a bunch of writers at once, or it may be the start of an RPG bloggers union.

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