Above is the Boyets-21 warrior suit, developed by the Third Research Institute of the Russian Defense Ministry.  Long winded, eh? Anyway, an article about this puppy was written on RIA Novosti about the armor and it’s possible uses.  The best part of the article, though, was this line:

Many people laugh at the idea, saying that such suits are science fiction as in the Warhammer 40k tabletop miniature wargame, in which futuristic soldiers, creatures and vehicles of war fight according to a variety of scenarios ranging from simple skirmishes to complex battles.

That’s right. It’s only a matter of time before the Empire’s supersoldiers are trekking it across the starts, fighting everything in sight in the name of a picked emperor.

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The Nevada Trivia Game by Marty Smith is “a cross between Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit”, a description that always sets my heart aflutter.

The game contents are taken from Marty’s site, NevadaTrivia.com.

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Do You Know Where You Are? (World Edition) is a geography and trivia game from sggc Cokesbury Acorns.

The game includes 3,000 questions that describe a location and give its coordinates, whereupon have to guess what the place is.

The game board looks like Risk’s, but I don’t suppose they allow any troop movement.

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The study of Educational Technology is the study of how to integrate “things’ into the classroom, whether computers and blogs, videos, props, or games.

One place you can concentrate in Educational Technology is EdTec at San Diego State University. And one interesting course at EdTec is EdTech 670: Exploratory Learning Through Education Simulation & Games.

EdTech 670 is complete immersion in the art of game design: analyzing game patterns, using games as teaching tools, psychological elements, role play, simulation, motivation, fun, and so on.

Students have to design original games that meet market demands and education objectives, upload stories to Youtube, and maintain a blog about board games. The blog has over a thousand entries going back to 2000, and all the entries are written during September through December, which is when the course occurs. Each entry is an exploration of a board or card game.

Information about the game projects, and how they meet the course goals, is also online.

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Drawn Together is a perverse cartoon series from Comedy Central. On Nov 17 you can get the entire series on DVD in a package complete with Drawn Together – The Board Game, a trivia game about the series. As well as a drinking game and Truth or Dare game.

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Ante Up For Africa organizes celebrity poker events to raise awareness and funds for Darfur. It was started by Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Ocean’s Eleven) and poker champ Annie Duke. So far, they’ve raised over $2.5 million.

An event is scheduled for today at the San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino, CA.

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The Gin Game is a play about revelations during a card game, playing now at The Shawnee Playhouse, PA.

Clue: The Musical is playing at The High Bridge United Methodist Church, Oldwick, NJ.

Clues, also based on the game, is a dinner theater presentation at Das Dutch Village in Columbiana, OH.

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The Free Enterprise game, designed by Kenny Montel, is a little dig at the current administration and a Monopoly-style financial game, in that order. The game is the “flagship product” of a company called ProAM Marketing. It’s not an exact Monopoly clone, but it’s close enough.

They are running a tournament for the game in February with a chance to win $250,000, but that’s not money handed out to the winner of the game. The winner has 50 chances (two runner ups get 25 chances each) to roll six 6’s on 6d6. Odds are about 45,000 to 1, but 100 rolls drop that to 450 to 1.

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Great Street Games is running augmented reality ARG street games in three UK locations, starting today. Players in one area act as a team against the players in the other areas, through the magic of heat sensing, light projection, and networking. The project is by KMA.

What the heck are you waiting for?

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Thomas Radecki is a psychiatrist and lawyer, a vocal member of the National Council on Television Violence, and an activist against fantasy role-playing game violence in much the same way that Jack Thomson is for video game violence.

He claims to have been personally involved in 8 or 9 cases of death due to role-playing games, and has familiarity with over 130 more, details of which he lists on his site. It makes for gruesome reading. Most of the deaths seem to be only tangentially related to the game (e.g. occurred at the same location as where the victim often played, or happened soon after a game session was finished), and others appear to indicate that Radecki doesn’t have a full grasp of what the game is all about.

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