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• - Pictures and descriptions of games.
  
• - Rankings for players in around 200 different games (primarily wargames).
  
• - A directory of board games including descriptions and some basic rules. Swedish/English.
  
• - Game reviews and information from French game Designer Bruno Faidutti.
  
• - Information and links for game collectors, specifically 3M games.
  
• - Brief reviews and session reports by a gaming group at the University of Pennsylvania.
  
• - Articles to help budding game designers.
  
• - Quarterly boardgaming magasin, featuring games, session report generator, and pictorials.
  
• - A database and guide to games, gaming groups, conventions, and links.
  
• - Errata, variants, analysis, rules summaries, reviews, charts and background information for a variety of board games and simulations. Capsule reviews for over 800 different games. By Rick Heli.
  
• - Sources of used board games and parts.
  
• - An academic journal for historical and systematic research on board games.
  
• - A monthly publication.
  
• - Contains ideas for new board games.
  
• - Features news, free games, articles, rules, and a discussion forum.
  
• - Large database covering mostboard games.
  
• - Extensive coverage on new and old German and English boardgames. Special features are available on Games Workshop, Talisman, Tolkien boardgames, the SPIEL convention at Essen and others.
  
• - Descriptions of board games for a single player, and multiplayer games with solo scenarios. Covers several genres, including wargames, historical, fantasy, science fiction, and sports.
  
• - Reviews board, card and dice games. Also includes photos of gaming sessions.
  
• - Reviews and pictures of many board games by Roland Johansson.
  
• - Gaming journal and links.
  
• - A board game database with pictures and descriptions. Some second-hand board games for sale.
  
• - Presents information and news about German family board games.
  
• - Features description, rules, and pictures of board games. Also includes games for sale.
  
• - A database of nearly every game made, including links to reviews, variants, and biographies on the designers. [English and German]
  
• - rec.games.board FAQ and intro
  
• - A listing of board games that are playable by two players, or that were specifically designed to be played by two.
  
• - A site for fledgling board game designers to meet, discuss and share ideas and resources.
  
• - With descriptions, rules, and variants for several games. Also features gamer database, articles, swap and sell, and online gaming.
  
• - Reviews and images of categorised board games. Written in English and Swedish.
  
• - A collection of links to online board games, including Backgammon, Checkers, Chess, Othello, and WebTV games.
  
• - Pictures, gamebox descriptions, and short reviews of over 100 British, German, and American boardgames and cardgames.
  
• - Translation and smaller version of Dutch site with gaming news and reviews of card and board games.
  
• - A monthly magazine covering board and card games with an emphasis on the European games scene. Each issue features reviews, original games, surveys of traditional games, and rule translations for new Eurogames.
  
• - A place to discuss board games and role playing games in New Zealand.
  
• - Board game reviews from a private collector -- Reviews include a brief description of play, pictures from the game in play and a brief opinion about the game.
  
• - A collection of ratings.
  
  

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