The Digital Tabletop

So, my visit to the board games colloquium was interesting. It is a distinct academic gaming culture (made up of historians, anthropologists, mathematicians, game theoreticians, and archaeologists) that has been gathering for over a decade. The quality of the talks, as expected, was pretty varied - but there were a few gems that [...]

Gamasutra has an article about the Essen International Game Day, in Essen, Germany. They say it is the largest board game event in the world. They profile some new games that came out during the event like Galaxy Trucker.
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From boingboing.net:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/27/boardgame-pricefixin.html
A board-game publisher has begun engaging in price fixing, a practice newly liberalized in the US in the wake of a June Supreme Court decision. Yehuda sez,