In anticipation of the World School Chess Championship and the FIDE Congress, 100 larger-than-human rooks are being erected all over Krakow. (source) Source doesn’t say who’s doing the erecting, nor who took the pictures, but I will assume it’s FIDE Poland.

Campaigns in Russia is a package of three new Eastern Front hex-and-counter war games from publisher Victory Point Games and veteran designer Frank Chadwick. Based on the system in Battle for Moscow, which Frank originally published with Game Designers Workshop, this set includes The Arduous Beginning, Objective: Kiev, and Target: Leningrad.

Wichita, KS: One man stabs another to death over a game of Dominoes. (source) Kingston, Jamaica: Three men fined for gambling over Dominoes. (source) Oklahoma City, OK: Police arrest several men for gambling with dice in a barber shop. (source) Kansas City, MO: Man stabs another man to death over a Dominoes game. (source) Norwich, [...]

To cap off it’s holiday fund-raising effort, for today only, and just the first 100 customers, the online campaign management tool Obsidian Portal is giving away free memberships in return for donations to the Child’s Play charity. Child’s Play donates toys, games, books, and cash to entertain sick kids in children’s hospitals. For details on [...]

According to ICv2, Palladium Books has settled its lawsuit with Trion Worlds over the use of the name Rifts in Trion’s upcoming MMOG. That game will now be called “Rift: Planes of Telera,” leaving off the “s.” With that resolved, Palladium can focus more attention on its books, and plans to bring several Rifts and [...]