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The Goonies and The Elder Scrolls Head to Your Tabletop

• U.S. publisher Chip Theory Games has teased an upcoming title with this image, writing only "More info coming 2022": I'm not a video game player, so I did not recognize the image as being...

Dominion Coming to Digital Devices...Again

Have you heard of the card game Dominion from Donald X. Vaccarino and Rio Grande Games? A game in which you start with a tiny deck of cards and use those cards to acquire more cards?You probably...

Game Overview: Faiyum, or Trying to Please Pharaoh One Action at a Time

Friedemann Friese's Faiyum — self-published through his own 2F-Spiele in late 2020 — is a tough game to describe if I'm trying to convey the details of exactly what you can do on a turn, so...

Return to MicroMacro: Crime City for a Full House of Cases

In January 2021, I wrote about upcoming game releases from German publisher Edition Spielwiese, with one of those items being a new standalone MicroMacro: Crime City title from designer Johannes...

All Together Now — Spiel des Jahres Nominations for 2021: The Adventures of Robin Hood, MicroMacro: Crime City, and Zombie Teenz Evolution

Co-operative games dominated the nominee list for the 2021 Spiel des Jahres — Germany's "game of the year" award — while also finding a place on the nominee lists for two accompanying awards:...

Japanese Game Round-up: Create Lenses, Write Poetry, and Use Four Pairs of Cards

I don't have a lot of detail about the games in this post, but better some detail than nothing at all. If nothing else, I have now closed many open tabs on my browser...•...

Open New Markets, Experience New Chronicles, Expand Your Continent, and Prepare for The Uprising

In the midst of the past year's quarantine-hibernation, while many of us had our faces glued to screens immersed in online board gaming, some folks were keeping busy working on getting new...

Interview: Nigel Buckle, Designer of Omega Centauri and Imperium

Editor's note: This interview was first published on Diagonal Move in April 2021. —WEMNigel Buckle, designer of Omega Centauri, joins Neil Bunker of Diagonal Move to discuss his career in game...

Games for Groups: Become a Ghost Writer, Catch a Wolf, and Act Like a Mean Girl

Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, but with COVID-19 vaccinations being more plentiful as the weeks pass, I thought I'd highlight a few new games for larger groups of players in case you're ready...

Transform Your Deck of Cards to Fight Decepticons, and Solve Mysteries with Friends

• In October 2020, U.S. publisher Renegade Game Studios announced an expanded partnership with licensor Hasbro to create role-playing and deck-building games based on the G.I. Joe,...

Gain Prestige for Your Champagne in Dom Pierre, and Unite Ireland Through Might, Cunning, and Matrimony

• Yinzi designers Rôla and Costa are the creative minds behind the debut title from new publisher Pile Up Games, with the 2-4 player game Dom Pierre set to debut in Q4 2021 in a limited...

Game Overview: Furnace, or Burning the Midgame Oil

Ivan Lashin's Furnace is a straightforward game: Acquire cards that allow you to gain coal, iron, and oil, then process them from one material into another or (ideally) from the raw material into...

300: Earth & Water — Tense, Fun, Card-Driven Wargame Goodness for All

In April 2021, I posted an overview and my initial impressions of The Shores of Tripoli, a 1-2 player entry-level, card-driven wargame on the First Barbary War from designer Kevin Bertram and...

Assemble the Right Collection of Gold and Paintings in Art Decko

At SPIEL '18, BGG recorded a preview video with designer Ta-Te Wu of his forthcoming game Promenade.Wu attempted to Kickstart the game in May 2019 (KS link) through his Sunrise Tornado Game...

Buckle, Turczi, and Mindclash Invite You to Prevent Voidfall in 2022

Hungarian publisher Mindclash Games aims large with its releases, both in the worlds that it creates and the games themselves, and it will continue that tradition with the 2022 release Voidfall...

Designer Diary: Mission ISS

At the beginning of 2017, Campagames in Hamburg, Germany — a publisher that specializes in the development of space-themed products — contacted me to ask whether I would like to work on a...

Game Preview: Witchstone, or Experience the Magical Transformation of Two Designers into a Third

At the end of March 2021, I posted a round-up of new games from designer Reiner Knizia that included Witchstone, a title from German publisher HUCH! with co-design by Martino Chiacchiera, making...

Donate to India Covid Relief for a Chance to Win Games

Beneeta Kaur livestreams game demos and playthroughs on Twitch, and on Sunday, May 2, 2021, she's running a charity event to raise funds for COVID-19 relief for India. Here's a reposting of info...

Interview: Richard Garfield, Designer of Magic: The Gathering and King of Tokyo

Editor's note: This interview was first published on Diagonal Move in March 2021. —WEMRichard Garfield, designer of Magic: The Gathering, King of Tokyo, KeyForge, and many more joins Neil...

Survive Stationfall, Fight the Machines, and Escape the Black Death

Now that vaccinations are rapidly rolling out and in-person gaming is slowly but surely becoming a reality again, I'm looking forward to getting some higher-player count games to the table.I've...

Five from Flatout Games: TEN, Dollars to Donuts, Abstract Academy, Cascadia, and Verdant

• Flatout Games — the game design collective comprised of Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich — has a new title coming in 2021 with publisher AEG, which has worked with Flatout...

Quacks Is Backs, Dream Machines Need Repairs, and Dragons Come to Catan...Again

• In late June or early July 2021, Wolfgang Warsch's The Quacks of Quedlinburg will return to print in North America from publisher CMYK, which has picked up the license previously held by...

Game Overview: Everything on 1 Card, or The Title Tells You What To Do

In a comment on my April 24, 2021 post, someone complained that Rolling Dice — the name of a game in which you roll dice — "might be the most unimaginative name for a game I've ever heard."...

Build Towers, Wreck Towers, Ride Tram 28, and Revisit Teothihucan

• The 2019 release Hurlyburly from Rikki Tahta, Verbena Tahta, and La Mame Games has been picked up by U.S. publisher CMYK, which plans to Kickstart a new edition of this dexterity game. Here's...

Open Banks in China, Slap Fish Like a Cat, and Don't Fall off the Ice

Now it's time for another round-up of "new games left open on tabs in Eric's browser for months", with titles featured here dating to January 2021:• In early 2021, Chinese publisher Jing Studio...

Manipulate Trajectories to Nab Targets, Prepare for Epic Sieges, and Survive The Battle of the Bulge

• U.S.-based publisher Revolution Games recently released The Deadly Woods: The Battle of the Bulge from award-winning designer Ted S. Raicer, who's most well known for his grandiose World War...

Survive a Delicious Plague in Messina 1347

Czech publisher Delicious Games has existed only since 2018, but it's already produced two highly regarded games from designer/co-owner Vladimír Suchý: Underwater Cites and Praga Caput...

CGE Relaunches Galaxy Trucker in Q3 2021

Vlaada Chvátil's Galaxy Trucker was the first title released by publisher Czech Games Edition, hitting the market in 2007, the year after Chvátil's Through the Ages had debuted from Czech Board...

Unveiling 7 Wonders Mystery

7 Wonders, old and newOn April 12, 2021, Belgian publisher Repos Production introduced something titled "7 Wonders Mystery" with the following minimalistic tweet:🗝 7 Wonders Mystery📆...

Grail Games Changes Direction

In an April 17, 2021 editorial following the close of a Kickstarter campaign for a new edition of Franz-Benno Delonge's game Fjords, Grail Games' David Harding gives a recap of the publisher's...