The return of the Risk
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 
It is not easy to find people to play board games anymore in our ever busy adult schedules. One of the problems that board games, like Risk have, is that they require a big investment of time on any single day which actually makes it almost impossible to be played on a weekday. That leaves weekends where football and going out (so i hear) take priority.
Hasbro, the maker of Risk, however is preparing to launch a new version called Risk: Black Ops. It will introduce a new resource based system on Capitals and Cities which will affect troop additions. But the version will also introduce an Objectives System and will be streamlined. The primary effect is that individual game sessions will be reduced to around 50 minutes making frequent sessions possible. Risk is adapting to us.
There is a post at Gamers with Jobs from Lara Crigger, who managed to have a go at the Risk: Black Ops version, and details her impressions. LINK
Also N’Gai Croal goes one step further to explain how the collaboration between EA and Hasbro can bring board games such as Risk: Black Ops to the XBLA and PSN. LINK
