My Truckin’ Luck is a roll-and-move trucking board game across the US from veteran trucker Randy Cox (not related to either of the game designers named Randy Cox on BGG, as far as I know), published by Imagigrafx.

Interestingly, the winner is not the player to finish first. The game ends when three players have finished the course, and then the winner is the player with the most money.

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Fortune Magazine pimps board games: Blokus, The Settlers of Catan, Wits And Wagers, Ticket to Ride, and publishers Rio Grande Games and Days of Wonder. (source)

NJ.com pimps local seller and online site All The King’s Men, a site that sells mostly Chess sets, but other games, including Euros. The site also gives lessons, runs a camp, hosts game nights, and so on. (source)

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Harriet Kipps, designer of the 1980s board game Volunteers! and author of Volunteer America, has a new game she wants to get out by the fall: Quiz-ical Fitness, a trivia game about health. The game has around 2,000 questions.

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USAopoly is launching Beatles Trivial Pursuit in August.

This game goes up against Beatriv, created by a young lady who is blind from birth and suffering from CFS for the past 20 years. Not to mention 1984’s Beatlemania Trivia.

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Its well established that I’m a closet Battletech freak, so when news dropped that Smith & Tinker (the current owners of the MechWarrior videogame property who are also working on a new version of the franchise) had authorized MekTek (bigger Battletech geeks than me – having put together 3 expansions for MechWarrior 4 to date!) to release MechWarrior 4 and all of its expansions for free as part of the 25th anniversary of Battletech, I had to take a moment. For those who aren’t familiar with the series, the MechWarrior videogames are a PC series of games that create a real-time simulation of the Battletech board game in intimate, loving detail. So, if you love Battletech, but can’t quite get to the table or just have some pent up nostalgia, give it a download (you can also pick it up at the recently revamped Battletech.com site)!

NOTE: At the time of posting, the downloads haven’t been made available on either site yet, but are expected to be up in the next few days.

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