Check out Brenda Braithwaite’s piece from last year. I’ve been meaning to post about this for ages now…
http://playthisthing.com/train
Train is not your standard board game. It comes on a full-sized window, not in a cardboard box. There is no company logo on the rules, because there is no publisher. You cannot buy it, because only one [...]
Check out Gabe’s experience with the WoW CCG and MMO character he built here. He notes that “the card game is built so well that I was actually able to construct a deck that matched my WOW character exactly.” He comments on how surprised he was that “they managed to model all the PC game [...]
So, we’ve covered digital game-to-board game adaptation briefly in our game session in the past (re: Doom the Board game and currently Starcraft) and intend to focus more so on it in the coming weeks with the Starcraft board game. Ian Bogost posted recently about a fun find in board game history: http://www.bogost.com/blog/zimmer_base_ball_and_cigars.shtml