Flibbix is a game where you first customize some of the tiles, assemble the spaces into a track in any order you like, and then you play it like a regular roll-and-move game. During the game, you may switch spaces around or have to hum or sing something to move forward.

Sounds a bit like Fluxx mixed with Cranium on a DIY board, and probably a lot of fun for your typical family gathering.

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With the release of the new World edition of Monopoly, Monopoly players around the world will attempt to set a world record for the number of simultaneous players in each of their respective locations.

Students at Brigham Young University for T-shirts and free games. Other attempts will take place in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, London, Madrid and Tokyo, as well as other locations.

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After Scrabulous’ creators voluntarily removed their application from Facebook for North American players in response to Hasbro’s takedown notice, Scrabulous was still available for players outside of North America. Until today.

This time Facebook removed the application in response to a takedown notice from Mattel, who has rights to the game outside of North America, when Scrabulous’ creators failed to respond to the notice. It remains on Facebook only to players in India, where the matter has been refered to the courts.

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Fresh from GenCon, GaleForce 9 has announced that they have signed an agreement with Wizards of the Coast to produce tokens and accessories for Dungeons and Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures and Axis & Allies Miniatures.  No word on the exact type of tokens as of yet, but it seems fair to guess that we’ll see a variety of status and environment tokens for the three games.   Check back here for more details when they are available!

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Games Day LA this weekend was a fairly light affair – unless you went to the Black Library presentation. During the session, someone asked about 40K in other media and got a surprise answer: it might be possible that an Ultramarine-based CGI movie could be released – next year! The presenter was quick to stress that it wasn’t a done deal and that its possible that such an effort would never see the light of day. We’ll have more details as they become available, but if you really want to see this thing happen, it probably wouldn’t hurt mentioning it to your local GW rep (hat tip to the fine folks at WarSeer).

For those who seem to remember something about 40K movies in the past, we’ve included a list of previous attempts to get you even more excited!

• Damnatus – got to the trailer phase and looked pretty good
• Bloodquest – another one that got to the trailer phase; many felt this one had the potential to go all the way
• Inquisitor – this was actually sanctioned by Game Workshop back in the late 90’s (all four parts are available on YouTube)

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