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Back in July, our Luke Plunkett wrote about the high-tech future of board games. Then we saw a canned demo of classic game Catan on Microsoft’s surface. Now, watch real people play, as seen at PAX 2010.
The ESRB shows a new listing for a PS3 adaptation of Settlers of Catan, the popular resource-allocation strategy board game. A version of this game by the same developer was released in Japan back in 2008.
Settlers of Catan, the award-winning resource-allocation and strategy board game, will have a version on the iPhone and iPod Touch “this summer,” developed in conjunction with Catan’s creator, according to the game’s official website.