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The makers of Monopoly and GI Joe have expanded their presence in Russia, and plan to capture a larger share of the toy and game market there. (source)

Hope they have better luck than they did trying to sell in China.

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Randy Thompson pimps his board game Soccer Tactics World on Dragon’s Den (who give him the same treatment they gave to the designers of Bandthology, About Time, and Destination). (source)

NW Territories Northern News Service pimps The Settlers of Catan. (source)

Smart Company pimps Imagination Games, in a fascinating and mysterious conversation that almost sounds like English. (source)

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Mirage Chess, by Pengtao Yu, includes a projected Chess board with piece movement tracking, pieces that snap open like hair clips, a computer opponent, and a computer hookup to play opponents remotely. All in a sleek compact case. (source) I’m not sure if the set actually exists or is only “designed”.

MarchingDog presents this good versus evil chess set. With zombies. (source)

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Monopoly City Streets, Hasbro’s MMOG intended to promote their new Monopoly City Edition board game, has run into its share of woes.

• When it first started up, the site couldn’t handle the traffic and the servers simply didn’t respond.
• After that, demand and other problems forced a global reset a week after launch. (source)
• Tens of thousands of spam emails and social networking links about the game are circulating; clicking on the link in the email infects your computer with mal-ware. (source)

Is it worth it? I don’t know. I bought a bunch of streets and houses – in 5 minutes – and now I have to wait until tomorrow to do anything else. And I have to log in every day, or risk forfeiting my rent and properties. It doesn’t seem very interesting. I don’t interact with any other players. Maybe it gets better if I spy on other players or trade streets?

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