Responding to an inquiry from Purple Pawn regarding the recent court decisions, Konami Digital Entertainment stated:

We still maintain that the distribution agreement with Upper Deck US has been terminated.

Keep an eye on your favorite game blog for further developments.

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The Small Business Development Center of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties is running the Biz Game, a game designed to involve students in the process of designing business board games.

The game is played over four sessions. A finals will be held in January, 2009, but the site doesn’t list when the sessions will be (were) held, nor what the prizes are, if any.

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The Industrial Design Centre of the Indian Institute of Technology has seen its students producing an increasing number of board games over the past few years.

Now Funskool, India’s largest toy and game company and a joint venture between the Indian tyre giant MRF and Hasbro Inc., is producing some of these games for Indian audiences.

Source lists six of the new games: Chakra View, Triplets, Gotcha, Sixteen Fifteen, Mahawar, and another unnamed game. Searching IDC’s site reveals a slew of other interesting looking games, such as games about Indian temples, desert geography, and a redesign on the classic Indian game of Ganjifa (played with circular playing cards).

Funskool’s profits were up 35% this December over last, from sales of Monopoly India and its own board game Game of Witz.

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Update: reviews of some of the games.

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Big Rig was designed by a  trucker for truckers. It comes with four separate colored ‘Rigs’, 2 Police Cars, Four Action Cards, and a slow School Bus.

It’s not yet published and he’s looking for investors (min $5,000 CND from each investor). He claims to own the trademark for the game name and “big rig”, and will follow up this game with a second game called “Super Big Rig”.

There is a 1985 game called The Game of Big Rig 18 Wheeler listed on BGG. Supposed to be decent for an eighties game.

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Do Tell the Relationship Board Game is another entry in the “conversation starters shaped as board games” field.

Roll the dice, and act out or answer some invasive question about your thoughts or feelings. Comes with a sand-timer.

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