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Links: Mayfair Brings out the Sheep & Nothing Else Compares to Sheep Newscasters

Links: Mayfair Brings out the Sheep & Nothing Else Compares to Sheep Newscasters
From gallery of W Eric Martin
• Mayfair Games is launching a new weekly series of promotional videos with, ahem, "news rams Bob MacWordell and Angus McPeters" and has released two teaser videos to date. Here's the first of them:



And should you dare to watch teaser #2, here it is.

• Hasbro has released its Q1 2011 results, with the "Games and Puzzles category" falling 12% from Q1 2010 to just over $200 million in net revenue.

• Designers Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim were interviewed by Tom Gurganus on Go Forth and Game about how they got started, what makes a game good, and the hardest part of game design.

• Mark Jackson has released his 13th annual "Five & Dime" report of most played games of the year, with Dominion topping the list for the second year in a row, with Race for the Galaxy once again finishing second. (Race barely nudged Dominion for the top spot in 2008.)

• Michael Schacht's Mondo is now playable on BrettspielWelt.

• Niagara Gazette has an article on Alan R. Moon's Gathering of Friends, an invitation-only semi-professional convention that took place in mid-April.

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