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		<title>Sokhazania, South African football game</title>
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Three months until the 2010 World Cup, and we have yet another South African soccer/football game, Sokhazania, designed by graphic designer Carel de Beer.
The game is straight roll-and-move, with no decisions or knowledge of soccer required, which the ad trumpets this as selling points.
For other recent games trying to cash in on the World Cup, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purplepawn.com/2010/03/sokhazania-south-african-football-game/</link>
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		<title>Foiled, the Graphic Novel and Board Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foiled is an upcoming graphic novel from Jane Yolen, illustrated by Mike Cavallaro.
For its release, Macmillan is also publishing a board game (not a CCG!) themed on the book and based on the game &#8230; CandyLand. Actually, the game appears to play &#8211; and I say this without exaggeration &#8211; even less interestingly than does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purplepawn.com/2010/03/foiled-the-graphic-novel-and-board-game/</link>
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		<title>Some Kerfuffle About King Philip&#8217;s War from Multiman Publishing</title>
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At least three Native Americans are upset about the upcoming game King Philip&#8217;s War from Multiman Publishing, because they are apparently unaware of the fact that &#8220;game&#8221; does not equal &#8220;trivializing&#8221;. (source)
Source is not entirely appalling, but not very illuminating either. I&#8217;m not sure how these guys found out about the game, nor how large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purplepawn.com/2010/03/some-kerfuffle-about-king-philips-war-from-multiman-publishing/</link>
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		<title>Chess Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Waylou points us to a few nice sets, including:
A $123,000 lacquered &#8220;urushi&#8221; set, part of an exhibition of urushi sets. (source, image is a sample set from the exhibition, not necessarily the one that costs $123,000) From Alexander Gelman, more about his Chess work on his site.

A non-working facsimile of The Millennium Falcon chess set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purplepawn.com/2010/03/chess-roundup-5/</link>
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		<title>Electronic Game Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Printed Electronics World describes a series of printed electronic game cards from Prelonic. (source)
The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface shows mind-controlled pinball. (source, via, via)

Harcos Laboratory hacks a MindFlex game to deliver electronic shocks whenever your brain activity rises too high (some bleeped out language in the video). (source, via, via)

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		<link>http://www.purplepawn.com/2010/03/electronic-game-roundup/</link>
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		<title>Jane McGonigal: 21 Billion Hours of Weekly Gameplay Required to Save the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the TED talk. Although her research is primarily with WoW and MMORPGs, applicability is general to all games. Epic win.

Jane. World Without Oil. Evoke.
Bonus: A TED video on the importance of play from 2008/9, in case you missed it:

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		<link>http://www.purplepawn.com/2010/03/jane-mcgonigal-21-billion-hours-of-weekly-gameplay-required-to-save-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Second Look—Kachina</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kachina, from Bucephalus Games, is a deceptively simple game with a lot more to it than an initial reading of the rules would indicate. Placing numbered tiles one-at-a-time in crossword-like arrangements, players score points (one for each tile in the row or column) when the tile they place is the highest numbered in that column [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purplepawn.com/2010/03/second-look%e2%80%94kachina/</link>
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		<title>Catalyst in Trouble?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot of rumor and speculation floating on the interwebs tonight that Catalyst Game Labs, makers of the Shadowrun, Battletech and Cthulhutech game lines, is in quite a bit of trouble. We&#8217;re not going to speculate on what is actually going on, but here&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve been able to put together from various freelancers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purplepawn.com/2010/03/catalyst-in-trouble/</link>
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		<title>And the Winner Is&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shanya Almafeta!
That&#8217;s right. Shanya has won our awesome Read an RPG in Public prize pack!
We&#8217;d like to thank everyone who participated in our largest contest yet. We&#8217;d also like to thank all the companies that provided products to go into the prize pack.
Shanya, please let us know your information so we can get those prizes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purplepawn.com/2010/03/and-the-winner-is/</link>
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		<title>PowerMage 54 Coming to the iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve already taken a look at PowerMage 54, so you know how I feel about it. So the news that it&#8217;s coming to the iPhone is kinda exciting!
Ravenous Games will be developing the app using the open-source Cocos2D engine for the iPhone.
PowerMage 54 is fairly light with some good strategy, and I can see it porting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purplepawn.com/2010/03/powermage-54-coming-to-the-iphone/</link>
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