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La variante del pollo
January 2013: Renato de Rosa publishes the hilarious La variante del pollo (Mursia). 32 apocryphal writings, in each of which, in the style of 32 different writers (more and lessgreat, he tries to explain why the chicken crossed the road.
GioNa – Gradara 2013 – A future without games doesn’t exist
January 2013: GioNa, the National Association for the Playing Cities, celebrates its 10 years in the city of Gradara, where it came to life. On January 11 and 12, 2013 there was a two days event dedicated to games...
Let’s fight against real gamble!
26 December 2012: Dario De Toffoli wrote on his Blog on Il Fatto Quotidiano about compulsive gambling and the mistake of including games that don't make players addicted to it.
Master Dice
December 2012: the swiss edition (Game Factory) of Dobbelduel (Master Dice), a game by Leo Colovini, is in the stores!
Verba Volant at Chiara Idea
12 December 2012: at 07:00 p.m. in Chiara Idea (Via dei Cerchi, 75 - Rome) there will be a demonstrative Tournament of the game Verba Volant by Ennio Peres, published by Giovani nel Tempo with the support and licence by studiogiochi.
Tangram nr. 30
The new number (n. 30) of the ludic culture magazine Tangram is available. Among the important articles, the poker voyage by Dario De Toffoli continues. There is also an exhaustive (and for us flattering) article by Cosimo Cardellicchio about the Mind Sports Olympiad.
Focus talks about game authors
December 2012. On Focus there is an interesting article by Mauro Gaffo about game authors. Gaffo has been a jury member of the Premio Archimede 2012 and talked therefore with many authors: some of their creations are mentioned on the article. Photos by Stefano Pavesi.
Gioco di Nala
28 November 2012: the game Gioco di Nala, by Furio Honsell, Paolo Munini and Flavio Rigo, Special Prize Sebastiano Izzo at the Premio Archimede 2012, is becoming a real animation tool.
Uno, due, tre… per le vie del gioco
San Giovanni in Persiceto, 26 May 2012: Dario De Toffoli attended at the conference about games that was held during the event “Uno, due, tre… per le vie del gioco” (One, two, three… in the streets of games).
On. Adinolfi: poker doesn’t make you a compulsive gambler
November 2012: last October the Italian Health Department put attention on compulsive gambling. But with great flaws and omissions. We will discuss this. In the meantime we would like to report the intervention of Mr. Mario Adinolfi, decisively against the hazard, but also against the criminalization of games.
Superpoker on Poker Sportivo
Novembre 2012: this month magazine Poker Sportivo has an article about Superpoker, the new poker book by Dario De Toffoli.
UISP Congresso fondativo – Novembre 2012
Rimini, 25 November 2012: the founding congress of the new "Traditional Games and Sports Area" of the UISP has been concluded, in which studiogiochi also took part.
Barattieri – Fondazione Benetton 2012
22 November 2012: Dario De Toffoli participates to the presentation of the book Barattieri by Gherardo Ortalli that will take place at 5.30 pm in Treviso, at the venue of the Benetton Foundation.
Il grande libro del poker – new edition
October 2012: the "Sperling Paperback Superbestseller" edition of Il grande libro del poker by Dario De Toffoli, is in the stores! The book has already 100.000 sold copies in its many editions.
Superpoker
October 2012: Superpoker by Dario De Toffoli, published by Sperling & Kupfer is in the stores! The "ultimate" book about the most favourite card game in the world, that offers a comprehensive training touching all the topics of todays' poker, from the "range" to "body language", the "multi-level thinking" to the protocol of the tournaments.
Festa del Torrone 2012
16-18 November 2012: also this yearstudiogiochi will participate to the Festa del Torrone of Cremona, that will have "sweetness" as the main theme of the event!