Actor Rich Sommer tweets the history of Uno—recorded here in case you missed it.

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Perhaps better known for its roleplaying games, White Wolf also publishes board games and produces the EVE Online MMO. Now they’ve put the two together in EVE: Conquests. It’s a space conquest game with economic elements and despite a lack of miniature space ships, I’m highly intrigued. The game features an Action Wheel for scheduling player turns based on the time they invest invest in certain tasks. This is an approach White Wolf also included in their latest Exalted board game, and one I enjoy in other games such as Thebes.

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The recent card/word game You’ve Been Sentenced! by McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds is being transformed into a nationwide game show.

The show will involve viewers by letting them submit answers either by text message or online. The show is scheduled to begin airing in the fall.

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The Catholic institution Opus Dei – described with a certain amount of liberty in the book and movie of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code – has sued sggc Dema Games over their card game Opus Dei: Existence After Religion, citing trademark violation.

Source, which is a press release from the publisher, claims that the name “Opus Dei” was inspired by the Latin phrase “opus dei” after reading Dan Brown’s book and believing that the organization in the book was entirely fictitious. While they  eventually discovered that the organization did in fact exist, they already had the game in production and the rights to the tradmark in Denmark.

You’re welcome to read the rest of source to see if they can convince you.

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Greg Costikyan comments on how the lack of press interest in a market, such as board games, mobile games, and so on, is bad for creativity in the market: what ends up being created and marketed is all about branding, not quality. The example he gives is the endless production of crappy board game tie-ins.

Not really news, but always interesting to hear it from a video game luminary.

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