The Michigan High Court overturns an earlier ruling it made regarding the government's use of eminent domain to condemn private property in order to serve other private interests. If you've ever scowled when you heard the government was knocking down homes so that Wal-Mart could build a new story, this article is for you. Read the full story.

A few years ago, I reviewed Avalon Hill's then-new Risk 2210 board game for SCI-FI. Our gaming group loved it how the game took the game's core mechanic, added a great deal of complexity and strategy to it, threw in a sci-fi theme, and still managed to retain that bizarre Risk luck factor. I gave the game an A, and it's been a fixture at our table ever since. Now AH has released another Risk variant, Risk: Godstorm and once again we're gearing up for a playtest.