Obviously, if Julius Caesar liked a good game of dice, it was a big thing. Augustus, too, was known to roll more than a few rounds. The trouble, however, is that while we often have the dice and depictions of people playing dice... A lot of the rules in the links below have been extrapolated. So, be aware you may be finding contradictory rules.
Viking dice games which is very similar to Roman antecedents.
A link to a pdf file with some pretty detailed rules, not on dice, but board games.
For those of you who remember playing Iactus, this is where I got the rules from.
Another dice/board combo site.
Not a lot of info on this one, but some good images and comments about how the Romans didn't have a lock on these games.
Like one of the links in the chariots post, this link is to a re-enactment forum.
While this isn't a "real" Roman dice game... I can't help but put it in because I do like the Iris Project.
I'm not advocating actually buying this die, but they do let you zoom in on the image, which is nice.
And speaking of images of dice, here's a bunch more!
But then again, what's the use of seeing the dice when you don't know what the actual games looked like: mosaics.
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