Mobile phone game developer Gameloft announced this week the launching of its new product called “Chess and Backgammon Classics” for iPhone. Both games use the features of the Apple phone for the gameplay.

The Strawberry Hill Hotel and Spa in St. Andrew, Jamaica, will host a backgammon tournament from June 6 though 8. This board game for two players is played with a board, two sets of fifteen checkers, two pairs of dice, a doubling cube and dice cups.

The Nevada Gambling Museum holds the most interesting and rare gambling equipment you have ever come across. Angelo Petrini has made the biggest contribution to the museum, picking out slot machines from his personal collection and donating them to the museum.

Backgammon Masters has invited the Guiness World Records Edition to presence what is supposed to be the world’s farthest Backgammon dice roll. The event will take place in a tournament, which features two of the best backgammon players ever, playing with a 1-acre board.

Ultimate Board Game Collection has some of the most popular board and table games that have entertained families from all over the world for a long time. It is expected to hit stores in the first quarter of 2008 for different platforms, including PS2, PSP and Wii.

In order to meet player’s demands, Backgammon Masters have announced the launching of their blackjack software in Bulgarian. The gaming software is already available in English, Hebrew, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese and other seven languages.

To celebrate carnival, the Galician community of Caracas organized several activities to entertain themselves and enjoy with the family. Although children were the ones who had most of the fun, adults had their space too with games like backgammon.

Thirty-three years ago, Casa Aries, a leather store owned by Domingo Perez Arisiti, presented a novel line: leather backgammon sets that were sold to several European fashion firms.

The new tendency in online gambling is to go for skill games. Backgammon is one of the games included in this category, together with Mahjong, Spades and Trivia Games. Both players and game providers have noticed the trend and are acting accordingly.

Baron’s, an iconic bar in Sydney, closed its doors on Wednesday October 31st. Its manager and loyal customers will miss it. "There's four million people in Sydney and I reckon every one of them's been here at least once," manager Lindsay Doubleday, now 74, said.