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New York Times: Civil War Games for Modern-Day Lees
By PENNY SINGER Published January 6th, 1991 The climactic battle for the Shenandoah Valley, General Pickett’s headlong charge at Gettysburg and the first and second battles of Manassas are the stuff Richard Berg has
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New York Times: High-Tech Push Has Board Games Rolling Again
By NICK WINGFIELD MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — Dan Shapiro sold a company to Google and worked at Microsoft. His name is on nearly a dozen technology-related patents. But when it came time for his latest
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WSJ: Green Bay’s Board-Game Obsession
By Kevin Clark Competitive Juices Fuel Lengthy Rounds of ‘Settlers of Catan’ Among Packers’ Players The weekly schedule of an NFL player is jam-packed and controlled to the millisecond. There are appointments that cannot
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Forbes: Are Board Games Better Than Video Games?
By Erik Kain Quintin Smith has an interesting post over at Kotaku in which he argues that board games and pen-and-paper RPGs are superior to video games, for a number of reasons. For one, he argues, technology
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John Hill (1944 – 2015)
By John Prados: Gamer’s Corner: Goodbye to John Hill January 13, 2015–During the late 1970s and early 80s, when we were all pushing the envelope for simulation authenticity, designer John Hill had a
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Scientific American: Game Theorists Crack Poker
By Philip Ball and Nature magazine An “essentially unbeatable” algorithm for Texas hold ’em points to strategies for solving real-life problems without having complete information. A new computer algorithm can play one of the most popular variants
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FiveThirtyEightLife: Designing The Best Board Game On The Planet
By OLIVER ROEDER The game ends in nuclear war only about 5 percent of the time. That’s a good thing. It gives Ananda Gupta faith in humanity. The game is called Twilight Struggle, and it’s the
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The Atlantic: How Family Game Night Makes Kids Into Better Students
By JESSICA LAHEY Matching up cards and planning the next chess move can help develop a child’s executive function—a set of skills that may be more important for success than IQ points. There has been
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WSJ: Boys, Men and the War-Strategy Game
By Jonathan Last Last week, Muzzy Lane Software released the sequel to its groundbreaking strategy game, Making History. Like its predecessor, Making History II is a World War II simulation, where players choose a
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Slate: The Pro-Union Civil War Board Game That Was the Chutes and Ladders of 1862
By Rebecca Onion In 1862, a year into the Civil War, the Philadelphia publishing company Charlton & Althrop registered a trademark for this optimistic and bellicose “Game of Secession, or Sketches of the Rebellion.” The
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