Few modern games have benefited from such organized academic study as Contraception: The Board Game. Sarah Bagshaw, a Masters student in Population Health at the University of Manchester, worked with a group of 16 youth to investigate the game’s potential impact on teenagers’ knowledge, skills, and behavior towards sexual relationships. Her report—published at the website of Contraception Education Limited—found that young people were comfortable playing the game, and also found that the game was valuable in facilitating open discussion about sex, relationships, and sexually transmitted diseases.

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Blacksburg Tactical Research Group has released a new print-and-play card game with the title End of Days. It’s a look at the fictional early days of the Cold War space race where astronomers discover a massive asteroid on a deadly collision course with Earth. In order to safely evacuate select people from your own nation to Mars, you must build rockets with the support and cooperation of other countries (players) while at the same time secretly trying to sabotage their projects. The base game is being sold for $6.00 at DriveThruRPG; an expansion is available separately for $1.00.

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