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Just posted a new blog article on Hollywood's current interest on turning boardgames into movies. Some good YouTube clips on there! http://www.pointzerogames.com/blog/2009/ 11/on-the-battlefield-of-the-soul-weve-a ll-lost/
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The newspapers carry the sad news today that Hasbro has acquired the film rights to world-domination boardgame Risk. Furthermore, it’s not just Risk: films are already in development based on Monopoly, ...

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You've got just six months to get your Army Of Zero competition entries in! http://www.pointzerogames.com/blog/2009/ 10/six-months-and-counting/
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So there’s six months left until the closing date for the Army Of Zero prize competition - 30th April 2010. Plenty of time yet to solve the riddle and send it into us for a chance to win £1000.

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We've published the official Army Of Zero rule variants, which you can use in your games should you wish. Read more at http://www.pointzerogames.com/armyofzero /variants.php

Point Zero Games We're getting ready for the Game 09 event which takes place this weekend (17th and 18th October) at the Palace Hotel in Manchester. For more details, including tickets and the full event line-up, have a look at the Game 09.
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Games Convention 16th to 18th of October 2009 at the Palace Hotel in Manchester City Centre

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Following last week's blog about the most difficult logic puzzles, here's a new post about the world's toughest jigsaws: http://www.pointzerogames.com/blog/2009/ 10/hardest-puzzles-2-jigsaws

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And you thought Army Of Zero was tricky... here's the most difficult logic puzzle in the world, ever: http://www.pointzerogames.com/blog/2009/ 10/hardest-puzzles-1-logic-puzzles/
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If you’re finding yourself getting stuck on the Army Of Zero puzzles, here’s a bit of light relief, in the guise of a series of blog posts about the hardest, most fiendish puzzles in the world! After these, you’re going to be glad to come back to Army Of Zero…

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We know what you're like... find out for yourself at http://www.pointzerogames.com/blog/2009/ 09/what-are-you-like/
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Over on the Army Of Zero pages, we have a little questionnaire where visitors can answer a few simple questions, and if they do that we’ll tell them which Army Of Zero character they are most like.

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ToyNes Magazine ran an item on Army Of Zero in their latest edition. http://www.pointzerogames.com/blog/2009/ 09/army-of-zero-in-toy-news-magazine/
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Nice to see ToyNews magazine featuring Army Of Zero in its September issue. ToyNews tends to have themed issues, and September’s had a whole section on Games and Puzzles. The item is reproduced on the left - but then you can see that!

Point Zero Games For those who asked, we've added a post on the official blog http://www.pointzerogames.com/blog showing the Army Of Zero flyer. As mentioned before, there's a little clue in the flyer - not a critical one, but possibly a little hint for you.
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I mentioned in an earlier post that the flyer we’ve been giving out at various shows has a clue in it, and we’ve been asked about it by people who can’t make the events. So here it is.

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Thirtieth anniversary of Kit Williams' Masquerade: The BBC is going to show a special documentary to mark the event. http://www.pointzerogames.com/blog/2009/ 09/thirtieth-anniversary-of-kit-williams -masquerade/
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Readers of a certain vintage will remember Masquerade. Quick summary for those who don’t: in 1979, artist Kit Williams wrote and illustrated a children’s book called Masquerade, which told the story of the journey of Jack Hare and how he lost a valuable treasure.

Point Zero Games Point Zero Games will be presenting Army Of Zero at GameCon 09 in central Manchester on 17th and 18th of October. Find out more details at http://gamecon.co.uk/
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If you've ever wondered why there's not a playable version of Army Of Zero on the Point Zero Games website, it's explained in the latest post on the official blog: http://www.pointzerogames.com/blog/2009/ 08/why-there-wont-be-an-online-version-o f-army-of-zero/
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Not a week goes by, it seems, without someone suggesting putting a playable version of Army Of Zero on the website - either someone wants to play against a computer, or they want to help out by writing ...

Point Zero Games New post on the official Point Zero Games blog: how do you decide how many games to order from the manufacturer? http://bit.ly/8H0lo
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This post is aimed at those game designers amongst you who are considering going down the self-publishing route. It’s a few of the lessons we’ve learned about putting together that initial order.

Point Zero Games We got asked this week about how we'll select a winner for the Army Of Zero competition. It's a question that comes up fairly regularly, and a while back I wrote a blog entry about this very topic. Here's the link:
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There’s exactly one year to go until the deadline for the Army Of Zero competition! It sounds like a long time, doesn’t it? But if the last 12 months are anything to go by, the time will rocket by and before long we’ll be selecting our winner and awarding the £1,000 prize.



















