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The man with 1,500 board games

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:59:37 -0800
Bingo! Kaleb Michaud found his passion for European board games after playing The Settlers of Catan with a college friend who worked for a games magazine.
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Oklahoma Lawmaker Proposes Tax on Violent Video Games

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:55:06 -0800
An Oklahoma lawmaker is proposing taxing violent video games in that state to fund obesity and bullying programs.
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Oklahoma the latest state to pin problems on video games, proposes sin tax

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:52:07 -0800
An Oklahoma legislator is proposing a ‘what about the children?’ bill (HB 2696) that aims to tax violent video games. Former schoolteacher and current Democratic member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, William T. Fourkiller, wants to levy an excise tax rate of one percent on the sale of violent video games; because these games supposedly spawn the obese bullies which plague our society.
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Get a job: Visceral Games, 2K Marin, and others hiring now on the Gamasutra jobs board

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:13:33 -0800
In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at Visceral Games, 2K Marin, Sony Computer Entertainment America, and others. Each position posted by employers will appear on the main Gamasutra job board, and appear in the site's daily and weekly newsletters, reaching our readers directly. It will also ...
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Curt Schilling, Former Red Sox Pitcher, Makes Video Games

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:53:30 -0800
Curt Schilling, the former Boston Red Sox pitcher, left baseball to start 38 Studios, a video game company, maker of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
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Dartmouth Program Tests Games With Students

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:02:50 -0800
Monopoly, Scrabble and Sorry are all board games we grew up with. Now one group is designing games for social progress. Students and researchers from the Tiltfactor Lab at Dartmouth College are creating games and then testing them on fifth- through eighth-graders across the Upper Valley.
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Oklahoma bill proposes extra tax on violent games

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:44:56 -0800
A new bill proposed in Oklahoma seeks to add an extra 1 percent tax on "all violent games" -- a measure that the Entertainment Software Association has described as "patently unconstitutional." The bill is the latest in a series of legislation that has targeted the video game industry, such as the 2005 California law that sought to block the sale of violent video games to minors without parent ...
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Super Bowl hot topic: Best party games

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:14:54 -0800
Talk about your friendly (or not-so-friendly) wagers, and other Super Bowl party fun
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Hasbro Is No Has-Been: Board Games Surge In The Digital Age

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:14:45 -0800
Risk has come to Facebook. Scrabble is one of the top iPhone apps. And several board games are enjoying a long life on game consoles. In the digital age, you better be ready to Hasbro-down. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away families had a game night--once a week they'd pull out a stack of boxes from a closet and everyone would flex their knowledge of trivia (Trivial Pursuit), vocabulary ...
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SILVER ATHLETES GO FOR THE GOLD IN SENIOR GAMES

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0800
For Kirsten Cummings, there is nothing more inspiring than watching a woman over age 70 rack up rebounds and block shots.
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