Like last year’s event, this year’s Scrabble With the Stars on April 6 featured numerous stars playing Scrabble to raise money for Performing Arts Lodges, Toronto, an organization helps performing arts professionals with health and housing.

This year’s stars included: Mark Breslin, Rick Campanelli, Peter Kent, Colin Mochrie, Jackie Richardson, Carl Pruner, R. H. Thomson, and cast members of various Toronto productions.

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If the board game hasn’t already filled you up with Twilight delight, you can pre-order the Twilight Scene It? DVD game from Entertainment Earth.

Delicious eye-candy to drool over for boys and girls alike.

Update: Screenlife’s Director of Public Relations indicates that the game is in development and not yet ready for a public announcement. More information as it becomes available.

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I’m not sure what the story is here, but there are four colorful advertisements for the game of Monopoly, subtitled “Own it All”. Gnarly.

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OK…maybe that’s not exactly what they said, but it was definitely in the underlying context… At any rate, ICv2 did a very short interview with Greg Leeds, CEO for Wizards of the Coast, asking why Wizards chose to shut down PDF sales completely. Essentially, Leeds confirms that the decision was a direct reaction to piracy (particularly of the Player’s Handbook 2) and that they’re working on a non-PDF alternative. While he didn’t say that this alternative was their existing D&D Insider property, he didn’t exactly deny it either. I’ve got to admit, if all the books were available online via D&D Insider, it might actually be worth its price tag…

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