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Popular Race for the Galaxy Board Game Moving to Mobile

With over a million physical copies sold, boardgamers have been building their galactic empires for years, making Race for the Galaxy one of the most beloved strategy titles in game shops around the world. It’s now coming out for Android and iPhone.

Temple Gates Games teamed up with Race For the Galaxy’s designer, Tom Lehmann, to bring a mobile adaptation of Race for the Galaxy to phones. AI pioneer Keldon Jones originally developed an AI for this game as a research project on neural networks. Now they are bringing the fruits of that project to Android and iOS.

Race for the Galaxy will be available for $6.99 on the App Store and Google Play. A limited beta begins on April 12th. You can sign up for it here.

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John Breeden II

John has spent his journalism career covering just about everything, from small-town meetings and crime scenes to Capitol Hill and the U.S. Congress. He got his start writing about games and technology with a computer column called On the Chip Side, which grew to more than 1 million in circulation and ran in newspapers across several states. Today, John is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek and many other publications, and he writes a regular technology and government column for Nextgov/FCW and hosts security and educational webinars for FedInsider. He is also the founder of the Tech Writers Bureau and the chief editor of GameIndustry.com. He still loves disappearing into games, whether that means crawling through Baldur’s Gate dungeons deep into the night or planning one more big offensive in the latest wargame.