The Gen Con 2018 Preview Is Now Live!

Let's cut to the chase: With the 2018 Origins Game Fair in the books, BGG's Gen Con 2018 Preview is now live for your perusal. I've sent requests for information to about 240 publishers, and I've heard from sixty to date, with some of those publishers being add-ons based on things I've seen on Twitter, Facebook, or elsewhere.

The Gen Con 2018 Preview is launching with an even two hundred titles to start, and the preview for Gen Con 2017 ended up with 573 titles on it, so we have a ways to go in the six weeks that remain before thousands of people converge on Indianapolis, Indiana to check out everything being shown, sold, and shipped home.

I have several titles in hand to preview ahead of their debut (or more widespread release) at Gen Con 2018, and I look forward to introducing you to those games and many more before August 2 arrives!

Game Overview: Facecards, or The Eyes Have It...Then Lost It Again

Jun 18, 2018

The number of games being released annually is astounding, with hundreds of new games appearing just at the SPIEL convention in Essen, Germany each year. No wonder then that some games at that...

New Game Round-up: Marvel Strike Teams Pits Hero Against Mastermind, and Looney Labs Expands Worlds

Jun 15, 2018

I feel like I've been focusing on the 2018 Origins Game Fair for weeks, with dozens of game announcements falling by the wayside along the way. Let's check out a few of these titles:• WizKids...

Game Overview: Fae, or Colorful Clans Clash in Celtic Clothes

Jun 11, 2018

Everything old is new again, sometimes with the thing being reworked and presented anew in the hope of capturing the old audience while bringing in new faces, as in the multiple reboots of the...

Designer Diary: SEAL Team Flix, or How To Publish A Game In Seven Years

Jun 10, 2018

Our names are Pete Ruth and Mark Thomas, and we are the designers of SEAL Team Flix, a dexterity and tactical combat game published by WizKids. We think we have a pretty interesting story to...

Episode #11 of The BoardGameGeek Show — Steph Hodge and Rodney Smith Drop In

Jun 07, 2018

In the latest episode of The BoardGameGeek Show, we have gone full Voltron, with new BGG team members Steph Hodge and Rodney Smith joining Scott Alden, Lincoln Damerst, and me to talk about our...