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Metallica Has Their Own Monopoly Game

Head-banging no longer doing it for you? Have you run out of power chords to play on your electric guitar? Never fear, for metal-heads-gone-mild, there are now other options. With Metallica’s brand new personalized version of Monopoly, you can hold onto your bad-assery while playing a relatively mild and safe board game....  read more

Social Media Monopoly Updates Classic Board Game

It’s Monopoly for the digital age, as players race around the board through different realms of social media sites and software like Vimeo, YouTube, Foursquare, Bing, Yahoo, Digg, Tumblr and more. Crystal Gibson, social media manager for Bite TV and Aux TV, has created a printable board for Social Media Monopoly, an unofficial version of the classic Hasbro game....  read more

From the Board to the Screen: Paste's Imagined Board-Game Movie Adaptations

Hollywood loves a good adaptation. Filmmakers often morph best-selling novels into blockbuster movies, and now they’re getting inspiration from an unlikely source: board games. Battleship is on the way, and there’s been talk of a Candy Land flick. Most recently, Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Monopoly adaptation has been in the news, with the director saying his film will focus on a Donald Trump-like real estate tycoon. "I told Hasbro, ‘The most amusing thing about Monopoly is it can turn your benign aunt or your benign sweet little grandmother into a monster.’ And they just laughed and said, ‘We know,’ " Scott...  read more

Hasbro, Gore Verbinski to remake Clue

Hasbro's at it again, with another project aiding its quest to flood the box office with board-game movies. (You might say they have a Monopoly on that particular market. Zing!) This time it's with Clue, which is actually a remake. (You might recall a little film from 1985 with a buxom french maid and Tim Curry's horrific smile. Here's a quick refresher.)...  read more