Well, we can’t cover all the toy and game expos but I will be at New York Toy Fair coming up in about a week. Feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you’d like to see from the show. According to a survey by TDmonthly Magazine, games are the most anticipated category by retailers this year, so I’m expecting a pretty exciting show.

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Truth Be Told from Buffalo Games is another “guess what the player will answer” game, and another “you score points if other players pick your answer” game.

Comes with 564 questions and plays for up to 8 people.

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Jean-Baptiste Piggin, writing for Deutsche Presse-Agentur, reports that the consensus at a meeting on the first day of the Nurnberg Toy Festival is that board games are doing well and video games aren’t. Actually, Jean-Baptiste mostly quotes Richard Gottleib, who organizes the meeting every year. (source)

Meanwhile in Germany, Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, profiles Schmidt Spiele and other board game publishers:

One other interesting conference I missed yesterday is The Art History of Games, currently underway at Georgia Tech, a conference on art in games (video and other).

NPD reports that 2009 toy sales were down 0.8%, but board games were up (once again) 1%. Electronics fell 17%. (source)

Matthew Engel, writing for The Daily Mail, tries to understand grasp Scrabble geeks. (source)

And the irrepressible XKCD on strip games:

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