Japan Boardgame Prize for 2007 is out:

Zooloreto won Best Game For Begginers with Jenseits von Theben (or Thebes for close friends) on a close second with a difference of merely 2 votes!

Pillars of The Earth beat Notre Dame on Best Advanced game for the same margin.

Bursa won Best Japanese game by miles from the runner-up Goita.

For Best Childgame the elected was Hüpf Hüpf Hurra!.

Japan Boardgame Prize has run from 2002 with Zooloretto’s big brother Coloretto winning Best Game for Beginners in 2003.

Happy Game Master Day!

If you’re a player go show your GM your love (you could buy him some glasses ’cause he probably needs them from reading all those rulebooks).

If you’re a GM demand of your players to love you!

There aren’t saddest news, today of all days, Gary Gygax best known for co-creating Dungeons & Dragons has passed away.

The news were given on Troll Lord Games Forum today.

Games wouldn’t be what they are today without one who can be called one of the fathers of RPGs.

Edit: Penny Arcade did a tribute comic for Gary Gygax, it’s bordering the semi-tasteful as it states on the title, but nevertheless I think it’s a great tribute.

Order of The Stick has a tribute comic.

Another preview for Descent: Road to Legend has surfaced.

This preview is all about the monsters, here’s what’s new:

Monsters are now divided into three types: humanoid, beast or eldricht. This will be relevant because upgrades to monsters are available one type at a time. There are some strange things in this change, for example: Beastman isn’t a beast and Sorcerers are not humanoid they’re eldricht, I’m sure these two will be some of the more confusing guys.

Monsters now have 4 levels (there are cards included on RtL for every monster already printed), the levels are Copper, Silver, Gold and Diamond. As the monsters progress they get better stats and more and better dice to roll.

Here’s an example with razorwings’ new evolution line:

Star Wars Order 66, the latest Star Wars Pocket Model TCG (Yes, you do assemble the cards into little models) is now out!

So now you’re able to play with the latest expansion of the bastard son born from the love of a trading card game with a miniature game.