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New York Times: High-Tech Push Has Board Games Rolling Again

New York Times: High-Tech Push Has Board Games Rolling Again

Other January 23, 2015 0

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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Slate: The Pro-Union Civil War Board Game That Was the Chutes and Ladders of 1862

Slate: The Pro-Union Civil War Board Game That Was the Chutes and Ladders of 1862

Other January 7, 2015 0

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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Merchants and Marauders: A Boardgaming Way Review

Merchants and Marauders: A Boardgaming Way Review

Fred Manzo March 23, 2014 0

By Fred Manzo Merchants and Marauders At Origins last summer, three of us tried Merchants and Marauders, a Euro published by Z-Man Games in 2010 and designed by Kasper Aagaard and Christian Marcussen. It’s

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