BANDthology is a music trivia game. Aside from trivia, you may sometimes be called upon to pantomime.

It’s also available in a Canadian edition.

They have a frighteningly bad video commercial:

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KaBoink is what you get when you play around with the components of one game and decide to create another game based on what people really do with those components. In this case, it’s bouncing ping pong balls into a box.

KaBoink comes with rules for a few games. Here’s one:

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Toysmart is a new Israeli based company with two abstract games in 2008:

• Path is a route planning game like Metro, where the object is to lay tiles and form a connected route.
• Con6 is a double layered tile laying game, with a hint of area control, where the object is to get six in a row.

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The members of the Utah Board Game Designers Guild are aspiring Euro game designers or artists. Rio Grande Games has been helping them out, including scheduling to publish a design by one of their members, Mike Compton, called Heavens of Olympus.

The source is naturally ridiculously titled, “Do you have what it takes to make the next Monopoly?”, even when one of the designers is specifically quoted as saying, “It’s not like these games will be like Monopoly.”

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The St Louis Beacon profiles Dave Illert from St Louis, who has a respectable board game collection of around 3,500.

He lists a number of the old-style games, but the most modern one he lists is Outrage, from 1992. And then he goes on to claim that it’s harder and harder to find games that he doesn’t already have.

Someone in St Louis want to point him to BGG?

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Z-Man Games’ reprint of the highly popular and previously sold-out cooperative board game, Pandemic, is being delayed by U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement for x-ray examination at its port of entry. The publisher reports that the resulting delay in distribution could be anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. What’s particularly interesting is that the first printing of the game was also singled out for this special inspection. Gamers are wondering if it’s the title “Pandemic” on the cargo container manifest that might be drawing extra attention from the Department of Homeland Security?!?

Meanwhile, another Z-Man game, Wasabi, has found its way to U.S. shores with less trouble and is now being delivered to distributors. I haven’t played the game yet, but the description kind of reminds me of a gourmet version of Peanut Butter and Jelly. Instead of a roll-and-move game to assemble a simple sandwhich, in Wasabi players compete to assemble unique sushi recipes, with bonus points awarded for style.

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While the Order of Hermes looks with disdain on other forms, it certainly has no monopoly on magical traditions in Mythic Europe. Hedge Magic is a new Ars Magica 5th Edition sourcebook for those traditions and has just been released in hardcover by Atlas Games. In it are chapters on six different approaches to magic, including information for elementalists, folk witches, Gruagachan, learned magicians, nightwalkers, and Vitkir.

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