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Microsoft Surface, the incredibly awesome giant touchpad, will bring the classic board game Settlers of Catan to the masses, thanks to the efforts of Vectorform Games. However, those masses will be ...

Board games are hostage situations. “C’mon, it’s fun!” your brother or so-called friend says, and then for the next two or eight hours you’re stuck. Rules are read, cardboard chits are distributed, ...

Midterm season is here and it may be time to settle on lower grades because it’s time to play “Settlers of Catan,” better known as “Catan,” to get rid of that midterm stress. You’re probably not going ...

If you know any board game geeks, you’ve almost certainly seen a copy of Settlers of Catan somewhere in their stack of games. For many it’s the infection vector of tabletop gaming, the test people ...

Forget comic books or video games, the untapped future of IP mining is clearly in board games. And now that Netflix has gotten into a Euro strategy game like Catan, it’s a gateway drug to the streamer ...