The Patriot News pimps the WBC, including San Juan. (source)

The Arizona Republic (via Fox News AZ) pimps board games, including mainstream games and a few paragraphs on Eurogames. (source)

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Nanovor, first new game from Smith & Tinker, is another entry in the online / offline hybrid game field. S&T is by Jordan Weisman, designer of Mechwarrior and Shadowrun, and owner of the IP for the online versions of same. It’s designed for 7-12 year old boys; a little edgier than similar games, so goes the copy, but not too far, such that boys will play it and mom’s will tolerate it.

Nanovor is a free download that will be enhanced with buying cards and minis, comics and cartoons.

Very soon they plan to release the Nanoscope, a hand-held device that syncs with your online portfolio and let’s you play face to face with up to four other players offline.

Theme: something about microscopic bugs.

(source, source)

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Actually Cheap Talk presents it, and WSJ covers it.

After QI and ZA became legal Scrabble words, a few people posited that the points accorded to the letters were now no longer appropriate with respect to the difficulty of their utilization. In other words, it was too easy to get too many points with cheap two-letter words.

Cheap Talk suggested facetiously that a way to solve this problem, and eliminate most of the luck within Scrabble at the same time, was to auction off the letters, rather than assign them randomly to each player. A couple of his students read this and went ahead and did just that. EuroScrabble, here we come.

Here are the rules. Session report here. WSJ covers it here.

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