Paramount Pictures has acquired Screenlife, makers of the Scene It? line of DVD games.

The acquisition was for “less than $100 million”, and it’s unsure what Paramount plans to do with them now that they have them. But I would look for more Paramount clips to be in future Scene It? games.

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A group of girls in Columbia who allegedly became possessed after an experience with a Ouija board have been returned to normal after an exorcism.

According to the relieved mother, Satan had taken control over her daughter and her teenage friends after the girls played the spirit-invoking Park[er] Brothers board game Ouija.

“We spent one month in anguish. My girl kept herself locked in a dark room, wouldn’t eat and didn’t remember my name,” Cervera told the radio station.

The exorcism was performed by a mysterious visiting stranger from a nearby town. The Ouija board has disappeared.

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The Rock the Net Caffe in Lebanon, OR is remodeling the old Gamerz Cyber Cafe and turning it into a sci-fi and fantasy gaming haven.

The walls and corridors will all be done in hyperspace themes, and XBoxes and computer stations will be available for all types of online gaming. They’re also adding a room called “The Dungeon”, specifically devoted to low-tech gaming such as RPGs and fantasy board games.

You can see their remodeling efforts here.

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Business of Games (BoG) is our regular series looking at the business of games from the perspective of the gamer.

Is Fantasy Flight Games the next Microsoft?  That’s the question asked in this week’s episode of the Dice Tower, a popular board game podcast by veteran reviewer Tom Vasel and Sam Healey.  At first blush, the idea seems a bit odd – after all, many in the board game world see FFG as something slightly better than Santa Claus, depositing gaming goodness to good little gamers everywhere with amazing consistency.  But are they really the same small company that we grew up loving?

Read on for our look at the FFG of yesterday and today!

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The first 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons products from Goodman Games, a prolific and well-regarded publisher of 3.5 adventures, should reach retailers this week. Included in the trio are two adventures and the Character Codex, a 16 page book of forms for recording every detail about a player’s character. The adventures are both designed for level one characters. Sellswords of Punjar, number 53 in the Dungeon Crawl Classics series, pits the players against the Beggar-King and a horde of shadow-horrors. Master Dungeons M1: Dragora’s Dungeon is the first in a new series specifically designed to provide greater challenge, and greater reward. For a preview of Dragora’s Dungeon, check out the Chatty DM’s campaign log.

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SW: Episode 1

Admit it – you thought the podracing scene in Star Wars Episode 1 was pretty cool (arguably the best part of the movie…).  Well now you can re-enact that scene with the new Spin-Out rules!  The rules are available for free from the Armchair General and remind me a little bit of the Car Wars rules and look very playable.  You can use the old Micro Machines podracers for miniatures (though you might have to resort to eBay) and they look pretty good on the table.

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