Mashable lists 60 free board and card games for your Iphone.

Games include Chess, Checkers, Go, Go Moku, Mah Jong, mazes, puzzles, Reversi, Cribbage, Backgammon, and more.

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From Internet meme to board game, here’s 25 Random Things About Me from Winning Moves Games.

Comes with 200 cards and pads on which to write. I’m curious to know if WMG owns the IP rights to the concept.

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Wizards of the Coast yanked all PDF products from all online stores effective immediately and filed suit against eight defendents in the U.S., Poland, and The Phillipines for illegally distributing copies of the PDFs online.

The prase “throwing out the baby with the bathwater” comes to mind. Now, the only way to get electronic copies of the books is illegally; they yanked all the legal ways of buying them. I’m not the only one who notes this. Jukka also notes that Wizards is now looking into ways to release the material using DRM, so that future legally bought copies will be a pain to use, while illegal ones will be more useful.

The cynical attitude is that there will always be illegal copies of the books; they get leaked from HQ as much as they are passed around after purchasing. And there’s no concrete proof that illegal copies don’t boost sales of the physical products, by making the game more popular, or just because people like to own nicely-bound physical versions of D&D books when playing around a table (OTOH, D&D’s online moves might be making their physical books obsolete, so maybe not).

Wizards already made moves to releasing the core ruleset as open source; surely someone in the organization can help them figure out a business model that doesn’t rely on the selling and withholding of information.

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In March, Panini America, a large Italian sports trading card company, bought Don Russ, a large American sports trading card company. Score Entertainment, the TCG division of Don Russ, was not part of the deal. For some reason, this leads to the cancellation of the Bleach TCG, published by Score.

Score also publishes other TCGs: Inuyasha, Epic Battles, Fruits Basket, and Sonic X; they used to publish Dragonball Z, Buffy, and other TCGs, as well. No news on what’s happening to these other lines.

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As a followup to a post on interactive electronic board gaming, seems there are a lot of people making strides in Augmented Reality: a fusion of video cameras, optical sites, pattern matching, and digital graphics. (Not to be confused with “Alternate Reality”, which is just a fusion of the real-world and your imagination.)

Augmented reality games let you look through a special set of glasses, or your camera phone, at game pieces on your tabletop. They then render inside the glass frames, or on the phone screen, a view of the game pieces augmented with animated 3-D digital images. So, you can be looking at a card of a baseball player and see a 3-D image of the player standup and swing at a ball.

Wearables is working on a 3-D ARG of Quake, where you run around outside with glasses on and see Quake graphics superimposed onto your friends.

Cellgames is working on ARGs that you can view with your cellphone, including a desktop tower defense game.

Gizmondo’s augmented reality catapult game:

PIT Strategy, an augmented reality racing game:

And, of course, Eye of Judgment did it first, and worst.

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