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The Economist: Financial board games – Playing the markets
By J.K. During the recent trial of Kweku Adoboli, a former trader with UBS, the prosecution described his trades that saddled the Swiss bank with a $2.3 billion loss as “unprotected, unhedged, incautious and
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Forbes: ‘Tide of Iron’ Is A Storm Of Steel
By Michael Peck: Toy soldiers are a guilty pleasure. We love them as children and are taught to look down on them as adults. And this is a pity, because something that touches us
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Washington Post: Re-creating the Battle of Waterloo, with 250,000 six-millimeter-tall toy soldiers
By Tom Dunkel Flowers are in full spring bloom outside Bruce Weigle’s Alexandria home, but inside it’s the dead of winter: January 1871 to be exact. Weigle is refereeing a step-back-in-time battle from the
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VPG: The Crimson Courier, 13 February 2015 Edition
By VPG Staff: Celebrate Valentine’s Day with an additional 10% off Sale, February 13th – 16th! VPG is showing you some love, with every game 10% off for a limited time! Best of all, this
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NYT: At Play in the Cardboard Jungle
By Mary Pilon On a recent weeknight in Greenwich Village, amid the circus of New York University dive bars, comedy-show hecklers and the drummers of Washington Square Park, there was a different sort of
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The Atlantic: How Board Games Conquered Cafes
By Hana Schank As social life gets ever more digital, new coffee shops and bars encourage face-to-face interaction via the likes of Settlers of Catan and Connect Four. On a gorgeous fall day when
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February 9, 2015 Update from GMT Games
By the Staff of GMT Hi guys! We have quite a lot of news this month, including three new P500 items, a few P500 deletions, (and one game that we’ve given a “make or
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White Dog Games Newsletter
By the Staff of White Dog Games February 2015 Newsletter Lodz 1914 is an operational level war game of the first battle of Lodz in 1914 (11 November to mid-December) for two players. Rules
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NYT: How the Civil War Created College Football
By Amanda Brickell Bellows At a ceremony in Cambridge, Mass., on June 10, 1890, the philanthropist Henry Lee Higginson declared, “I ask to make [Soldiers Field] a memorial to some dear friends who gave their
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New Turning Point Games Now Shipping
By the Staff of Turning Point Simulations: Greetings, Just a quick note to say the latest batch of four games released by Turning Point Simulations has shipped. Look for them in the mail shortly
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