Board Game News

Links: Incorporating Synergy in Game Design, Relating Games to the Meaning of Life & R.I.P. Allan B. Calhamer

• In The Onion's A.V. Club, Todd VanDerWerff writes about "How board games sum up the meaning of life through colorful cards and painted pieces", with the following paragraph backing up how...

Game Preview: Ghooost!

• After a close brush with death and a reminder of how fleeting our existences truly are, I'm here to give an overview of how to play Richard Garfield's Ghooost!, a card game from IELLO that is...

Interview with Keith Baker about Cthulhu Gloom, Unpleasant Dreams, Cthulhu Fluxx & Future Releases

• Beth Heile does indeed exist outside of Spiel, the annual convention in Essen, Germany where she proves to be a workhorse year in and year out, interviewing dozens of designers and publishers...

Game Preview: The Little Prince: Make Me a Planet

• Here's an overview of Bruno Cathala and Antoine Bauza's The Little Prince: Make me a planet, which French publisher Ludonaute is releasing in April 2013 on the seventieth anniversary of the...

Game Previews from NY Toy Fair 2013: Cocktail Games – Tweegles, Thématik, Ici Londres & Casse-toi Pov'con!

• Time for three more game demonstration videos from NY Toy Fair 2013, all from French publisher Cocktail Games this time, with Cocktail's Matthieu d'Epenoux demoing the games. I'm continually...

Game Previews from NY Toy Fair 2013: Cube Quest, Terzetto, Chef Pop de Pop, Monster Café & IOTA

• I still haven't posted all of the game preview videos recorded at the 2013 toy and game fair in Nürnberg, Germany, but hey, Aldie has already processed the fifteen preview videos that I...

Game Previews from Nürnberg 2013: Hyperborea, Gnominia, Evolve & Nations

• Dipping into the Spielwarenmesse 2013 video previews once more, we have Luca Cattini from Italian publisher Asterion Press showing off a game that will be co-produced with Yemaia. The game,...

New Game Round-up: Expanding Terra Mystica & Previews from Funforge, Ludonaute, Ystari and Repos Production

• Terra Mystica co-designer Helge Ostertag has noted on a thread on the game's BGG page that "[a]t present, we are testing the following new factions: Barbarians, Shapeshifters, Djinns,...

New Game Round-up: Marvel Heroes to Visit Dark City, More Firefly Games & The Final Truth about Veritas?

Dark City cover artwork• U.S. publisher Upper Deck Entertainment has unveiled the full name of its first expansion for Devin Low's Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game – Dark City. As...

BGG News Update: Back from the Road and Looking for Roadies

• I've been on the road or prepping to go on the road or recovering from being on the road since mid-January 2013, with a three day visit at the Spielwarenmesse toy and game fair in Nürnberg,...

Game Previews from Nürnberg 2013: Dice Devils, Kreuzwort, Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Kampf um Malastare & Star Wars: Bounty Hunter - Das Würfelspiel

• Okay, now that I'm finally back from travel/vacation time following attendance at NY Toy Fair in mid-February 2013, it's time to start wrapping up the video coverage from Nürnberg 2013 –...

Gremlin Project Launches in 2013 with Galaxy Defenders

Simone Romano and Nunzio Surrace, two long-time gamers from Italy, have decided to start a new design company – Gremlin Project – which they describe as follows:Quote:Gremlin Project is an...

Nürnberg 2013 Photo Report, Part II: 76 Pics of 24 Gamer's Games

This is the second part of my overview of the games I saw at Nürnberg 2013, an overview I've split in two because of the sheer mass of photos included.After the first post of children's and...

Game Previews from Nürnberg 2013: Ab in die Tonne, Family Farm, Säulen der Macht, Catch & Alles Käse!

• Continuing with the video coverage of Spielwarenmesse 2013 – the annual toy and game fair in Nürnberg, Germany – we take a look at Carlo A. Rossi's Ab in die Tonne from ABACUSSPIELE,...

WizKids Games Teases Mage Knight: Resurrection, Injustice, Trains and Stations & Hello Kitty

• U.S. publisher WizKids Games, which is owned by National Entertainment Collectibles Association (NECA), has announced a number of new games and licensing deals since the start of February...

New Game Round-up: Fantasy Flight Rediscovers Borderlands and Brings Ruin to Descent; Privateer Press Expands Level 7, Then Expands It Again

• U.S. publisher Fantasy Flight Games has announced a second expansion for Descent: Journeys in the Dark (second edition) titled Labyrinth of Ruin that's due out Q2 2013 with a MSRP of $60....

Game Previews from Nürnberg 2013: AMIGO Spiel – Crazy Lab, Kuddelmuddel, Pharaoh Code, Word on the Street & Flash 10

• Let's continue with the video coverage of Spielwarenmesse – the annual toy and game fair in Nürnberg, Germany – focusing on the releases coming from German publisher AMIGO Spiel, some of...

Links: Cathala Objects, Faidutti Laments, Wheaton Ponders, Siggins Touts & Allers Remakes His Pie

• So there's a video on Facebook of game designer Bruno Cathala shredding the cards from Witty Pong – a game he co-designed with Antoine Bauza that was published in 2011 by French publisher...

Game Previews from Nürnberg 2013: Brügge, Time 'n' Space, Oppida Romana & Praetor

• After a few days delay, during which I attended New York Toy Fair 2013 and (gasp) actually took a couple of days off, the game previews recorded at Spielwarenmesse 2013 – the annual toy and...

Game Previews from Nürnberg 2013: Bora Bora, Bremerhaven, Via Appia & Kingdom Builder: Crossroads

• Continuing the video coverage from Spielwarenmesse 2013, the annual toy and game fair in Nürnberg, Germany, we come to the longest explanation of the day, the game being Stefan Feld's Bora...

Nürnberg 2013 Photo Report, Part I: 42 New Children's and Family Games

I will try to give a brief overview of the games I saw at Nürnberg. After sorting through 800+ shots, over 200 made it into the game galleries here on BGG. I submitted a couple of games not yet...

Game Previews from Nürnberg 2013: Pegasus Spiele – Rialto, Wunderland & Village Inn

 • Rialto, from German publisher Pegasus Spiele, was one of three Stefan Feld games on display at Spielwarenmesse 2013, the annual toy and game fair held in Feldberg, Germany. (The town...

Game Previews from Nürnberg 2013: Kosmos – La Boca, Ubongo: Das Würfelspiel, Asante & Simsala Hopp

• The game previews from Nürnberg 2013 continue, with half – yes, only half – of the videos that we recorded at the Kosmos stand, starting with Inca and Markus Brand's La Boca, which I...

Game Previews from Nürnberg 2013: Zoch Verlag – Auf Teufel komm raus, Potato Man, Mucca Pazza & Vaca Loca

• Time to look at another batch of game preview videos, this time focusing on the new titles from German publisher Zoch Verlag. We'll start with Auf Teufel komm raus from the mother/daughter...

Game Previews from Nürnberg 2013: HUCH! & friends – Im großen Zauberwald, Voodoo Mania, Feuer & Flamme, and Nada!

• At the HUCH! & friends stand during Spielwarenmesse 2013 – the annual toy and game fair in Nürnberg, Germany – HUCH! PR and marketing rep Katrin Reil, modestly pretending that her...

Game Previews from Nürnberg 2013: Forbidden Desert, Super Race, Spyrium and Náufragos

• Okay, time to start unloading the Nürnberg 2013 videos en masse, starting with an overview of Matt Leacock's Forbidden Desert, which will be released in Germany by Schmidt Spiele as Die...

Game Preview from Nürnberg 2013: Augustus

I won't be posting on BGG News every single video that Scott Reed and I recorded at Nürnberg 2013 – especially not in standalone posts – but since the first such game overview video has now...

New Game Round-up: KingBrick Reborn, Expansions for Legendary and Quarriors & New Pics of the New Pix

• Both designer Oliver Sibthorpe and publisher Gamewright have confirmed that Cube Quest, due out Q2 2013 in North America, is a new version of the self-published KingBrick.Are the games...

Game Preview from Nürnberg 2013: Origin

I didn't play many games during Spielwarenmesse, the annual toy and game fair in Nürnberg, Germany, partly due to many games being available only as a prototype or in a preproduction format, but...

Game Preview: Gentlemen Thieves, with a summary of how to play

In late 2012, French publisher Bombyx released Gentlemen Cambrioleurs from designers Charles Chevallier, Catherine Dumas and Pascal Pelemans, with the game appearing on North American shelves in...