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FIJ 2019 I: Highlights from Cannes — Clash of Rage, Dice Quest, One Key, Dice Forge: Rebellion, and Heroes of Normandie: The Tactical Card Game

Thanks to all the folks behind the scenes who are processing videos from the many conventions we've attended, I've already published 34 game overview videos from the 2019 Festival International...

From Wildlands to Mega-City One with Judge Dredd: Helter Skelter

Time for another GAMA Trade Show announcement, this time from UK publisher Osprey Games, which has revealed an October 2019 release date for Judge Dredd: Helter Skelter, a Martin Wallace design...

Duel for Glory in Unmatched, Coming from Mondo and Restoration Games

GAMA Trade Show 2019 opens this week, so it's time for publishers to start springing surprises on retailers and gamers to build buzz ahead of the summer conventions in the U.S.With that in mind,...

NY Toy Fair 2019 IV: Quirky Circuits, TEAM3, Wordsmith, and Cute Games from France

After yesterday's Hasbro extravaganza, is there anything else to talk about regarding NY Toy Fair 2019? Yes, oh my goodness, so much more, starting with this delightful title:In Quirky Circuits...

NY Toy Fair 2019 III: Tiny Pong, Porcupine Pop, The Slow-Motion Race Game, and Dungeon & Dragons: Stranger Things

While the momentum is still with me, let's continue rolling through pics and notes from NY Toy Fair 2019, which took place Feb. 16-19.That's just over two weeks ago as I write this, yet it feels...

NY Toy Fair 2019 II: Lost Cities, Jaws, SHŌBU, and Cloud Stacking with Unicorn Glitterluck

I recently started summarizing my NY Toy Fair 2019 experience in this space, but I managed to get through only 2.3 booths before I had flooded the post with images. Let's dip into a few more...

NY Toy Fair 2019 I: Tentacle Town, Three-Dragon Ante, Spyfall: Time Travel, and More Rick and Morty

I'm still decompressing from having attended three conventions in February 2019, with lots of pics and tweets posted of what I saw during that time, but much more is likely still waiting to be...

Talisman: Batman – Super-Villains Edition Coming from The OP in June 2019

In early February 2019, USAopoly — which has since redubbed itself The OP — announced that it had signed a deal with Games Workshop for licensed versions of the board game Talisman.One of...

New Game Round-up: Escape from Hako Onna, and Prepare for Another 10 Days in the USA

• Zev Shlasinger at WizKids was one of the first people in the U.S. to release games from Japanese designers, with Fairy Tale having a Z-Man Games edition in 2004. Thanks to his continuing...

Expansions Galore for Terraforming Mars, Terra Mystica, Teotihuacan and More

• I covered three game conventions for BGG in February 2019, and despite doing that — or perhaps because I did that — I've missed lots of game announcements along the way, specifically for...

New Flight Plan Coming for Memoir '44 in May 2019

Games these days seem to hit the market, then vanish from the shelves (and players' minds) before the turn of a season, so let's take a moment to marvel at Richard Borg's Memoir '44, which...

G.I. Joe, My Little Pony, The Orville, Men in Black, and Throne of Glass Come to the Tabletop

• In late February 2019, WizKids announced an new licensing partnership with Hasbro in which "beloved properties G.I. Joe, My Little Pony and Transformers" would be added to WizKids' line of...

Designer Preview: Res Arcana

Res Arcana is a fantastical card game of resource transformation and growth for 2-4 alchemical mages.In Res Arcana (arcane things), players use magical essences to craft artifacts to produce more...

Previews from Spielwarenmesse 2019 III: Alea, Mini Garden, Monkey Duel, Die Tavernen im Tiefen Thal, and Herb Witches in Quedlinburg

• Okay, two more conventions are in the books — NY Toy Fair 2019 and Festival International des Jeux 2019 in Cannes — which means it's time to get back to all of the overview videos that we...

BGG Style Guide: How to Propose Representative Images for Game Pages and Versions

Do you upload images on BoardGameGeek? Do you understand how to suggest representative images for game pages and version pages?If not, here's how: BGG Style Guide: How to Propose Representative...

Talisman: Kingdom Hearts Coming from USAopoly in 2019

In early February 2019, USAopoly — which now goes by the handle "The OP" — announced that it had signed a deal with Games Workshop to release licensed versions of the Talisman board game.Now...

Teasers from FIJ 2019 in Cannes: Welcome Expansions, Parhelion, Decrypto: Laserdrive, and the Last Hope for Ghost Stories

• The 2019 Festival International des Jeux in Cannes, France ended two days ago, and I thought I'd summarize some of the upcoming games and expansions teased at that convention, many of which...

New Looks for Irish Gauge and Quartermaster General WW2, and a New Country for Brides & Bribes

• Capstone Games is launching a new partnership with Winsome Games with a new version of the 2014 release Irish Gauge from Tom Russell with new art and graphic design from Ian O'Toole. Gameplay...

Game Preview: Precious Cargo, or Raise Your Sails for Good(s)

In recent years, the U.S. branch of Winning Moves Games has tended to focus on games for very young players and new editions of older mainstream games, such as 13 Dead End Drive, Pente, Game of...

New Game Round-up: The Rogues Gallery Battles Batman, and Everyone Fights to Survive Jaws

• With NY Toy Fair 2019 under way and game announcements flowing like taxis down 10th Avenue, let's look at a few more licensed designs coming out in 2019, starting with Jaws from Prospero Hall...

Game Preview: Revisit Your Bad Side in Villainous: Wicked to the Core

NY Toy Fair 2019 opened on Saturday, Feb. 16, and as is custom The Toy Association announced the winners of its various "toy of the year" awards, with a surprising entry winning game of the...

New Game Round-up: Mechs, Circuses, Fireworks, and Magnetic Planets

• Blue Orange Games plans to release Urtis Šulinskas' Planet in North America on April 22, 2019, a.k.a. Earth Day. The game debuted in Europe at SPIEL in October 2018, and you can check out an...

Mergers, Splits, and Distribution Deals: Funko Folds in Forrest-Pruzan Creative; Hachette Grabs Gigamic

• On Feb. 15, 2019, Funko, Inc. — the world's largest manufacturer of pop-culture-based bobblehead figures — announced that it had acquired Seattle-based game design studio Forrest-Pruzan...

Previews from Spielwarenmesse 2019 II: Newdale, Mandala, Foothills, and Bärenpark: Die Grizzlies sind los!

Lincoln Damerst and I recorded about one hundred game preview videos at Spielwarenmesse 2019 — the annual toy fair in Nürnberg, Germany — and more than twenty of those videos are live for...

Harry Potter, Captain Marvel, Jumanji & More Go from Screen to Tabletop at NY Toy Fair 2019

• NY Toy Fair opens on Saturday, Feb. 16, and that show — being aimed at mainstream retailers — typically coincides with game announcements connected to licensed properties.Along those...

KeyForge Welcomes Age of Ascension in May 2019

Richard Garfield's KeyForge, the buzziest game of 2018, will have more than two hundred new cards added to the game system in May 2019 thanks to the release of KeyForge: Age of...

Previews from Spielwarenmesse 2019 I: Hadara, Corinth, Fired Up, and Era: Medieval Age

The Spielwarenmesse toy fair in Nürnberg, Germany turned 70 in 2019, and after four days of recording game overview videos at the fair Lincoln Damerst and I felt seventy years old ourselves. So...

Sushi Roll Headlines Gamewright's 2019 Line-up of New Games

• This week I'm doing final preparation for both NY Toy Fair and FIJ in Cannes, France, with the GAMA Trade Show poking its head up in the background and also demanding attention. Avalanche!One...

Explore the Outer Rim in a New Star Wars Game from Fantasy Flight

In case you don't have enough Star Wars-related game options already available to you, Fantasy Flight Games has announced a new one for release in Q2 2019, one that might be viewed as the...

Four New Titles from WizKids for Mid-2019: Nemo Rising, Palm Trees, Sovereign's Chain & Europa Base Alpha

• Another month brings another four titles announced by WizKids — or at least that's how it feels sometimes. The company's director of board games, Zev Shlasinger, has wide-ranging tastes,...