Now appearing at retailers is Red November, a game about Soviet Gnomes and their comedic attempts to stave off catastrophe in a sinking submarine. I had a brief chance to play a preview copy at Gen Con and it looks to be a very dynamic and entertaining cooperative board game. Interestingly, Red November was originally designed as a war game simulating the tragedy of the Russian vessel Kursk. Multiple publishers, though, were apparently unprepared to put out a game on that subject so soon after the disaster. Eventually Fantasy Flight Games decided to take on the project with a more humorous theme.

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Congratulations to Bards and Sages Publishing on the release of the Karma Roleplaying System Core Rules Book! After a series of supplements, potential players now have access to the basic rules of the game.

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No relation to last week’s Media Mogul, Joel Harden’s Mogul is another entry in the field of very highly priced board games about finance, whose price is explained by the economic lessons that the game imparts.

The $200 game concentrates on real estate, and includes mechanics for tenant management, tax liens, cap rates, and a host of other concepts. Part of its claims of superiority over other games, such as Cashflow 101, includes the number of cards (552) and plastic pieces (114) that the game includes.

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Why wait several hours to become bankrupt in a drawn-out game of Monopoly?

You can do it much quicker in Bankruptcy the Card Game. It appears to play something like Uno, with players attempting to go bankrupt in the spirit of the current marketplace.

Of course, you could always play Go For Broke, an updated edition of the same game from 1965.

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What do you do when your successful glam rock band dissolves, leaving you alone and depressed? Start a successful card game series, of course.

That’s what Keith Lamb, legendary English founder of the Australian band Hush, did after the band broke up in 1977. Following ten years of unhappiness, Keith created the dinner conversation card series The Art of Conversation, together with the psychiatric nurse who helped him.

The game now comes in several editions.

(source, site)

Conversation cards seem to be coming into vogue.

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You can win a free copy of the new Halo DVD/board game.

Head over to Daily Game and fill in the form. That’s it. Open worldwide, and you can enter once per day per email address.

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By popular request, PP presents an Ohio couple who turned their backyard over to Scrabble, by creating a giant Scrabble board made of concrete and paint, and giant wooden Scrabble tiles and racks.

I’m expecting them to receive a cease and desist order from Hasbro any day now.

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