WorldsForge Private Limited and Field Marshal Games have united to bring a North American release of Field Command: Singapore 1942.

Field Command: Singapore 1942 covers the Battle of Singapore in WWII, featuring the Japanese, British & Australian armies.  Inside the box you’ll find 3 full campaigns and 4 tactical scenarios, along with plastic pieces in 11 different sculpts and 9 dice.  The rules can be found here.

The system is supposedly easy to learn, hard to master, which I’m sure we’ve all heard before.  The quality is pretty impressive for a wargame, and you get a ton of stuff in the box.

While this doesn’t seem like my cup of tea, I’m sure there’s plenty of wargamers out there dying to get their hands on it.

The game is available right now, and at a special price, too.

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Brainball was deigned by Smart Studio of the Swedish Interactive Institute. Developed in 1999-2000, the game is sold commercially by Interactive Productline as Mindball.

The object of the EEG-powered game is to relax your mind more than your opponent, thus moving the ball towards his or her goal. Here’s a short paper [PDF] about the design.

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Edugames Ltd presents Brit Quiz, a trivia game that thankfully dispenses with the useless board in favor of a narrow box of cards. There are 400 cards, and 4 questions (from easy to hard) per card.

This is not the first game called Brit Quiz, nor the first about UK Trivia.

Even without the board, it’s rather pricey at £21: £13 + £8 shipping. You can save on the shipping by buying the game from Union Jack Wear (only £2.75 shipping).

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The Beer Game is a game about system dynamics from System Dynamics Society.

“Players experience the pressures of playing a role in a complex system and can see long range effects during the course of the game. Each player participates as a member of a team that must meet its customers’ demands. The object of the game is to minimize the total cost for your team.”

From the site, $125 gets you instructions, DVD, board, cards, pencils, and 600 plastic chips. And, presumably, something educational.

Harvard Business review sells PDF copies for $6.95. There’s something odd about that.

(source)

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Still reeling from losing a multi-million dollar lawsuit to Konami for fraud and counterfeit, Upper Deck is now being sued by Major League Baseball for using their logo without permission. (source) They are continuing to sell cards without the license to do so; sound familiar? Six months ago, MLB gave the exclusive license to Upper Deck’s rival, Topps.

MLB also claims that Upper Deck already owes them $2.4 million. (source)

Update: UD and MLB have settled this suit.

In other news, as of this week, Tomy became the exclusive distributor of UD products in the UK market. (source)

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2010 Nurnberg and  NY Toy Fair are almost upon us. These are major events in the year where toy and game companies introduce new collections.

Other major events include Hong Kong (Jan), UK (Jan), Paris (Jan), Milan (Jan?), Toronto (Jan), California (Mar), Dubai (Mar), Melbourne (Mar), Brazil (Apr), Tokyo (Jul), Dallas (Oct), Seoul (Oct?), Shanghai (Oct), Essen (Oct), Chicago (Nov), Stockholm (Dec),  Taipei (???), Prague (???), New Delhi (???), Moscow (???), Spain (???), Thailand (???), Mexico (???), Sydney (???), and probably others.

And you wonder why we don’t cover all of these in depth.

Playthings and ToyNews have a lot of information about games at the NY Toy Fair.

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