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		<title>Interview with Gina Manola: Inventor of Feed the Woozle</title>
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A couple months ago my inventor pal Gina Manola asked if I would take a look at her new game when it came out.  While I don&#8217;t really fit into the target age demographic (kids 3-6), I am a sucker for cute and funny.  Her new game is called Feed the Woozle manufactured by Peaceable Kingdom Press and yep, you guessed it &#8212; it&#8217;s about feeding a Woozle!  The game is pretty simple and it all revolves around using a spoon to feed the charming monster a series of disgusting ...]]></description>
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		<title>Piece O&#8217; Cake: Cut me a slice!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was working with a client recently and they showed me the video below and they wanted to know more about &#8220;the pie game.&#8221;  I&#8217;ve seen the video before (a bunch of times) and I was a little embarrassed that I didn&#8217;t know WHAT &#8220;the pie game&#8221; was.  So I found out.  It&#8217;s actually a cake game, called Piece &#8216;O Cake even though I agree the slices look more like pie &#8212; but you can see the clip for yourselves below.  The &#8220;pie game&#8221; starts at 3:27.

We’ve already established that Piece ‘O Cake ...]]></description>
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		<title>King of Tokyo: Yes it is just as fun as it looks!</title>
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If you follow me on twitter you may have seen the tweets from certain twitter folks who might be a bit disgruntled that Santa left a very hard to find copy of King of Tokyo under the tree for me.  As I pointed out to them – and now to you too – if you look to eBay it’s not super hard to find.

The theme of King of Tokyo is really compelling; each player is an enormous monster causing destruction and mayhem while vying to control Tokyo.  Who won’t like ...]]></description>
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		<title>STOP SOPA &amp; PIPA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may or may not be aware, January 18 is the worldwide internet &#8220;blackout&#8221; to protest SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) that is currently in the US House of Representatives and PIPA (Protect IP Act) in the US Senate.  These broad and confusing pieces of legislation will change the face of the internet.  How?  For starters, like sites like YouTube and Facebook &#8212; or any site with user generated content &#8212; will have to self-police their sites for any copyright infringements.  So all those retro-commercial for I&#8217;ve posted asking &#8220;remember ...]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Stop: Revisiting a favorite that has a new look!</title>
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Back in the summer of 2009 I wrote an article on one of my FAVORITE dice games: Can&#8217;t Stop by Sid Sackson.  In this article I mentioned that I got my copy back in 2007 and it wasn&#8217;t going to be the easiest game to find &#8212; but good news for all, NOW IT IS!
You can scroll down to read my original review, but before that I&#8217;d like to rave about it&#8217;s new design.  The new Gryphon Games version is on the right and the older Face2Face games version is on the left ...]]></description>
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		<title>Did the Wise Men Play Games?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article was written for the Games for Educators December newsletter, you can see it HERE. 

Maybe.  The Biblical Magi, or Three Kings, were said to have visited Jesus bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh shortly after the reign of “King” Herod the Great, who ruled from 37-4 BC.  They are said to have come “from the east” and it’s disputed whether that means that they were Babylonians, Persians or from Yemen, but that’s all basically the same general area when we’re talking about games at that time.
So regardless of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thegameaisle.com/did-the-wise-men-play-games/</link>
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		<title>2011 Holiday Game Picks: A little holiday shopping help!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I swear, one of these years I&#8217;ll formalize the way I do my holiday picks article, but like usual TAGIE, ChiTAG and all the follow up work after it have sucked away the last couple weeks.  So here I am, a week late posting my &#8220;Holiday Picks&#8221; article &#8212; still that&#8217;s better than last year!
Here it is, a list of games which will make great gifts and entertain your family during the holidays and the long winter (and my top picks of the games I reviewed in 2011 plus 2 ...]]></description>
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		<title>2011 ChiTAG Recap: What I saw and liked!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whew…ChiTAG is over and I’m exhausted!  I will freely admit that between T&#38;GCon, the TAGIEs and ChiTAG it’s my favorite 4 days in the game industry calendar because it feels like everyone is in town and it’s not quite as crazy as New York Toy Fair – although that’s debatable.  During those 4 days I tackled: speaking at T&#38;GCon on the “Packaging and Design” panel, I attended the Toy and Game Inventor Awards (and lost), was interviewed by a newspaper and a radio station, met with (what feels like) a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thegameaisle.com/2011-chitag-recap/</link>
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		<title>Dec/Jan Issue of Fast Company: OMG I&#8217;m in it!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t express enough how social media has taken me to new and crazy places &#8212;  places I&#8217;d never dream I&#8217;d be.  For example, this month Fast Company magazine (a magazine I love) and has an article just on me and the &#8220;tools of my trade&#8221; (which is really just some of the interesting stuff I use to do my job).  Amazing!  Here&#8217;s a screen shot and a link to the article (and the one without typos is in the Dec/Jan print issue, page 84):

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/161/kim-vandenbroucke-game-inventor 
Okay, I&#8217;m tooting my horn right ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thegameaisle.com/fast-company/</link>
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		<title>2011 TAGIE Awards: I didn’t win, but I’m going to say a few words anyway…</title>
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First, thanks to all of you who voted for me – it just wasn’t my year.  I will say, I’m okay losing to Susan McKinley Ross; she’s a great inventor and her game Qwirkle won the Spiel des Jahres, so it only seems fitting that she took home the trophy!  Congratulations Susan!
Despite my loss, the evening was quite a success!  Again it was held at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry and this year the museum is hosting a Dr. Seuss exhibit which was quite cool!  Dinner even had a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thegameaisle.com/2011-tagie-awards/</link>
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