Fitting for Veteran’s Day, D-Day Dice was released today as a print-and-play game. The game can be played solo, or multiplayer, and features more than just rolling dice. Throughout the game you’ll be moving your soldier and collecting resources, slowly becoming stronger.

Right now the game has one map, Bloody Omaha, and there are plans for more maps in the future. You can also play D-Day Dice on VASSAL.

The designer, Emmanuel Aquin is also the designer of the Zombie in my Pocket variant turned standalone game, Airborne in my Pocket.

Normally the theme wouldn’t do anything for me, but this seems pretty interested. It’s already downloaded and I’ll be giving it a try as soon as possible.

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Movie roundup:

• Numerous sources link to this unconfirmed rumor on Latino Review that the upcoming Battleship movie will contain aliens. (source) Source specifies no source, so they might have just made it up.
• The Los Angeles Time contains a thorough look at the plot of the upcoming Monopoly movie. (source) Summary: Think Alice and Wonderland. Boy plays a lot of Monopoly, and then wakes up in Monopoly world.

The Columbus GA Ledger-Enquirer pimps the Million Minute Family Challenge to play board games with family. (source)

The BBC continues with uninteresting coverage of the Lewis Chessman set. (source)

The Texas Murphy Monitor pimps Arimaa and its inventor Omar Syed. (source)

The Honolulu Advertiser pimps Hanafuda, and the retired teacher who is trying to revive interest in it. (source) Says she, “I want to use hanafuda as a tool, a force for good.”

The Seattle PI (formerly Post-Intelligencer) pimps Bookchase in an advertisement-as-article. (source) Bookchase bills itself as the world’s first board game about books. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Double ha (from 1890).

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The World Series of Poker ended. Winner Joe Cada takes home over $8 million in winnings. Second place earned over $5 million.

Here’s the final part of the final hand (you can see the rest on the site, if you like).

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Ken Thompson, the creator of the UNIX operating system, as well as B (the precursor to the C programming language), regular expressions, UTF-8 character encoding, and Belle, an early notable Chess playing computer, has co-created a new open-source programming language for Google called Go.

Go refers to Google, of course, but also to the classic Asian board game. (source)

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A recent Harris poll [PDF] indicates that 54% of Americans aged 18 or older will purchase one or more toys as a gift this holiday season. Of those, 30% plan to purchase one or more board games. By my calculation, that means that over 37 million board games will be purchased in the next month and a half.

Only slightly more (36% of toy buyers) indicate that they will buy video games or consoles.

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Releases on August/September 2010

Jason Bulhman, lead designer of the Pathfinder RPG, has announced the opening of a new playtest for the upcoming Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player’s Guide. Starting on November 13th, they will release a free PDF containing 2 new classes every 2 weeks. There are altogether 6 new classes and playtesters are encouraged to try them on their home game or in the Pathfinder Society Organized Play.

The schedule for the release of the PDFs and classes will be as follows;

• Oracle and Cavalier (11/13 – 11/29)
• Summoner and Witch (11/30 – 12/13)
• Alchemist and Inquisitor (12/14 – 12/27)

Paizo will be opening specific threads on their forum to receive feedback on the classes for the duration of the playtest which will last until January 2010. The final product is currently slated for release on August/September 2010.

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