Board Game Madness: Board Game Madness 2/7

Congratulations Giants fans. Thanks for beating up on the Pats. (I'm a Jets fan...)

Fun:

Awesome list of fictional board and card games from movies and television. My favorite is Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence from Ren and Stimpy. I remember when that aired!
When NOT to follow instructions
And on that day, the Meeple's heart grew 3 sizes larger...
What happens when the #2 game on BGG (Agricola) meets the #2 computer game (Minecraft)?
My son got one of those claw vendor boxes you see at arcades and such. This guy wants to turn it into a dice tower...
Another geek proposal
Life sized boards: Scrabble, Monopoly and Battleship
Funny geeklist about some of the worst names for games
I missed the first round of this, but if you are interested in a March-Madness-style tournament of your favorite game designers, the Derk Cup is in the second round

New Games:

iOS:

Ticket to Ride owners got flashbombed the other day with news that the pocket app for the iPhone now has asynchronous multiplayer (a la Ascension). The iPad version however does not. That's upsetting. The reason why Ascension gets more play than any app on my device is solely because of asynchronous mode. Hopefully they'll fix that.

News:

I'm not sure how this one escaped my attention. Shame on me. There's going to be a board gaming documentary called "Going Cardboard", which happens to be the old BoardGameNews section where they tracked new games that were coming out. It takes a look at the entire industry and the designers and players and how board gaming is not only surviving, but thriving right now. I can't wait to see it. Go to the Going Cardboard site for more info or directly to the trailer.
Purple Pawn recently interviewed Ron Weingartner, a former VP over at Hasbro, on how to pitch a game to a game company. Fascinating read.
Another interesting analysis article, this time from Fortress Ameritrash: How are board games different from card games? And where does the video game genre blur the lines?
Apparently Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) has a favorite board game: Risk. Surprised?
Seems there was a big lawsuit over a Wiggles board game that has now been cleared. Too bad my older son's now 9 and wouldn't be interested in it. He used to be a huge wiggles fan.

Recently played:

Not much gaming this week, just a game of Thunderstone (Epic variant) which I lost badly. Then I got my friend back by beating him at Race for the Galaxy; a game he RARELY loses

Happy Gaming!

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