A new print periodical called the Tactical Wargamer’s Journal has just released its first issue.  The book covers topics across the wargaming board, focusing mostly on 20th century and contemporary games. Military history, as well as the history of tactical games is also covered.

The first book is 142 pages, full-color, perfect bound, and is $44.99 from lulu.com.

For more information, head over to tacticalwargamer.com.

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For the first time through it’s BattleCorps online store, Catalyst Game Labs is offering individual BattleTech miniatures in plastic. The Loki and Thor sets come with one assembled and one unassembled figure. Reviews on Camo Specs praise the new material for holding detail, and the designs for including elements that maximize flexibility while minimizing errors in assembly.

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University Games has new games out since Smart Ass, which is when we last checked up on them.

The Game for Boys: Activities include magic tricks, star gazing, kite making, knot tying, insect collecting, flag folding, lighting a fire, dart playing, history, and more. All things in which girls would never, ever be interested.

Sort It Out: A party game where you have to order a group of items according to a criteria.

Likewise: Also published by Buffalo Games. A party game where you have to match items to descriptions similarly to how the other players do so.

Murder Mystery Mansion: 3-D mansion, suspect cards, method cards, motive cards, place cards, guess tokens, and deductive reasoning. Something like Mastermind.

Take a Letter: Players race around a letter track game board: collecting, swiping and trading letters until a word is made.

Argue: Debating in a box. Guaranteed to cause (real) arguments.

Dirty Dancing: Trivia game, some twenty years too late. I carried the watermelon.

Super Why ABC: Based on a TV series. Helps children identify letters and create stories.

Beware of Dog: Like Operation, try to steal the dog’s bones.

Dancing with the Stars: Play the highest scoring card for each type of dance.

Madagascar Escape 2 Africa: Memory.

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Kobold Quarterly has released their 11th issue with articles for 3.5/Pathfinder and 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons readers alike. There are rules for insanity and torture, variants for rangers and dwarves and how to play as a lycanthrope. One article that both readers can enjoy is where 16 renowned game designers and writers from the likes of Mike Mearls, Jason Buhlman and Robin Laws are asked for game mastering advice.

You can find the PDF or print at the Kobold Quarterly store or the PDF at DrivethruRPG.

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Ringing the Bull (or whatever) is a ring on a string tied to the ceiling and a hook on a wall. Swing the ring and try to get it to catch onto the hook. Bimini Ring is its name in the Caribbean, named after a district in The Bahamas.

The fellows at sggc 5mississippi have created a tabletop version called Hookum (pictured). The game is advertised as Simple, in that it requires Skill, No Assembly, No Batteries, and No Brain.

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We’ve previously mentioned this before, along with another game, Hive for the iPhone. Now another note of news about iPhone games comes in. Catan: The First Island is now available for the iPhone from iTunes!

The game plays just like the original Settlers of Catan, has multiplayer support, and can be played against bots if no other players are available.  More information available at Catan.com.

Snag it here for $4.99.

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