This dynamic display-table lets you play all your favorite board games on a virtual screen!

In a lot of ways, the Infinity Game Table is what the Microsoft Surface Table should have been. It seems more and more like Microsoft jumped at launching a product without a fully formed idea just because it seemed like the right marketing move, but hey the Surface Table didn’t really click. The Infinity Game Table, however, picks up where the Surface left off and uses the tabletop surface to reimagine gaming, entertainment, and recreation.

Designed by Arcade1Up, the same group of people who brought back cabinet-style arcade games like Pac-Man, Frogger, Mortal Kombat, TMNT, Street Fighter, Galaga, and other iconic classics to life (seriously, you should check their website out), the Infinity Game Table is the ultimate piece of gaming furniture. Designed to be just like the coffee-table you’d play board games or assemble jigsaw-puzzles on, the Infinity Game Table comes with a touchscreen display built into its surface that lets you play a multitude of board games from Monopoly to Yahtzee, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Candyland, Hungry Hippos, Tic Tac Toe, and a whole bunch of other games including indie titles (with new ones being added every day). The dynamic display even allows you to assemble jigsaw puzzles, and since everything is virtual (as opposed to physical board games), you can potentially save your progress and continue playing your game after a couple of days, starting where you left off!

Each Infinity Game Table comes with Wi-Fi that allows you to access its seemingly infinite library of games, puzzles, and even comic books (yeah, you can read books too!), but here’s where it gets interesting… the Wi-Fi connectivity lets you partner with other Infinity Game Table users, playing across rooms or even in different parts of the world. This opens up the ability to play more complex games like Texas Hold’em or Battleships without allowing your opponent to see your hand or your layout. The table lets you pair up with up to 6 different players at the same time, playing games and bonding with each other while you’re socially distancing from your individual homes. If you’re playing with the family, the Infinity Game Table offers hours of entertainment and fun, allowing you to sit at home and play over 50 popular and indie games, thanks to partnerships with gaming giants like Hasbro among others. Families with younger players can opt for more age-appropriate activities like built-in coloring books too!

The Infinity Game Table comes in two variants, offering a choice between a 24″ and a 32″ screen. Both units sport an HD display sitting under an impact-resistant and water-proof glass top (so you could potentially still use it as a table). Speakers underneath the table, along with tactile vibration motors make the gaming experience multi-sensorial, allowing you to immerse yourself while playing. The legs on the table are removable too, which means you could just as easily place the unit on your bed and have your family or friends sit around… and given that the entire experience is virtual, you’ll never have to worry about losing a card, dice, player pr puzzle piece ever again!

Designer: Arcade1Up

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Infinity Game Table by Arcade1Up

The Infinity Game Table is a digital gaming table with all your favorite classic board games packaged into one. Features: Ticket To Ride, Monopoly, Scrabble, & more.

The Infinity Game Table was designed and created by the gamers at Arcade1Up™—the #1 at-home arcade company, who partnered with Hasbro™ the — the #1 name in board games, to take board game entertainment to the next level.

Features

– 1-6 players depending on the game.
– Tactile Feedback. To add new levels of immersion through haptic feedback.
– Wifi Enabled! Play your friends across the Globe!
– Download endless Games, Puzzles and Coloring Books with no monthly subscriptions or hourly fee required.
– Layers of immersion through 3D animation and graphics and through dynamic zoom, the game interacts with you.
– Dynamic Zoom Viewing provides a personalized perspective for each player.
– Super Hi-Resolution Screen that adds next-level realistic depth and texture to all games.
– Access to dozens of board games with many more titles to be announced.
– Easy to store portable design.
– Removable legs converts from a game table to a game board.
– Impact/water resistant surface
– Regularly working with and seeking Indie Game Developers to create new content, making the potential unlimited.

Games, Puzzles & Coloring Books You Can Play

Infinity Game vs Traditional Game Boards

Because everything is digital the problems with traditional game boards are solved.

What problems?

– Lost game pieces
– Figuring out the score
– Wasting time reading and memorizing the rules, then double-checking to make sure you understood the rules
– Lack of music, graphics, and sound effects (Play any video game and you see why this is a problem)
– Running out of places to store all the game boards

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Monopoly Longest Game Ever Edition Sounds Like A Nightmare

This is the Amazon exclusive Monopoly Longest Game Ever Edition (affiliate link). The game doesn’t end for anyone when they go bankrupt; oh no, the game only ends when a single player owns every single property on the board – of which there are three times more than in a regular game. I can already feel my blood boiling and me flipping the board in rage.

Did I mention there’s only one die to roll, so there’s no more rolling doubles, and you’re stuck crawling around the board at a snail’s pace? I kid you not; my right eye started twitching when I read that it made me so angry. I think I’m going to be sick.

No word how long a game is actually expected to last, but I imagine about half the time it takes a plastic bag to fully decompose in a landfill. And as if regular Monopoly wasn’t already bad enough at ruining game nights for decades, they should just call this edition what it really is: Monopoly Ultimate Destroyer of Families and Friendships Edition.

[via This Is Why I’m Broke]

The Thing Board Game Will Have You Suspecting Your Friends Are Aliens

When I was just 14-years-old, I managed to sneak into the movie theater to see John Carpenter’s gruesome, R-Rated horror movie The Thing. I left the theater both thrilled and horrified by the creepy creatures I had witnessed, and the incredible scares along the way. To this date, it’s still one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen. Now, you can reminisce about the classic horror flick with your friends with the official The Thing: The Board Game.

Pendragon Game Studio has teamed up with Universal to create a great looking new board game inspired by the 1982 movie. Designed to mimic the tense, cinematic experience of the film, the game focuses on the drama between the humans exploring a mystery in Antarctica and the terrifying alien that hides among them. The game can be played with up to 8 players as they attempt to figure out just who is an alien and who isn’t in the cold and isolated Outpost 31 research base.

The promotional video below does a good job describing the gameplay:

The graphic below shows everything that comes with the game, including a large game board that serves as the research base, along with lots of action and item cards, playing discs and tokens, and some fantastic miniatures based on both the film’s characters and some of its creepiest alien forms, including that upside-down head that sprouts crab legs that I will never be able to erase from my mind.

The Thing: The Boardgame can be pre-ordered now over on Kickstarter for €79 (or about $93 USD) with an expected release date of December 2021. The project has already busted through its fundraising goals, so will definitely go into production. I’ll just be a long, long winter until you can get your hands on the game and play it for yourself.

[via Geeky Gadgets]

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Hello, pimple poppers. Do you want a new game where you play with zits? Of course, you do you nasty thing. Well, you are in luck. The Pimple Pete Game Presented by Dr. Pimple Popper is all about popping pimples.

If that sounds like fun to you, Spin Master’s nasty game lets you pop pimples with your family and friends. Pimple Pete has a face that only a dermatologist would love. Each player spins the arrow, then chooses a squishy pimple to “pop” on the area indicated. The goal is to get the “pimple” out without triggering the Mega-Zit filled nose, which is filled with water (though I suppose you could fill it with something nastier.) So you are either going to get a zit or a squirt. Who is entertained by this?

The game is described as “a little ‘yuck’ factor with a lot of fun factor” and “some gross-out fun”. If you say so. Remember when games used to be fun instead of gross? If you want some pimply fun in your game night, you can find the game on Amazon for less than 10 bucks.

 

 

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This Enormous Backpack Is Ready to Carry All Your Board Games

If you take your board games with you often to game night or to your friend’s house, this backpack will help you transport them.  The Ultimate Boardgame Backpack is designed and sold by GeekOn. It’s a huge-ass backpack specifically designed for carrying board games – at least the square boxes.

It comes in a variety of colors and includes all kinds of features like an expandable main compartment, waterproofing, two koozies, and a bunch of other zippered pockets for things like laptops, notepads and more. It is so big in the back that it looks pretty silly when fully loaded.

If you fall down while wearing this thing, you’ll be stuck on the floor like a turtle on it back. There are also optional accessories like elastic straps for your games, a waist strap, dice case and tray, and more. Hopefully, it won’t mess up your boxes either when you cram them all in there – I know how gamers like to keep their stuff in pristine condition.

Enjoy your slipped disc and other assorted back problems. Oh and it costs $200, so I’m sure some players will opt to just buy some more games with their money instead.

[via The Awesomer via Geekologie]