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Crowdfunding Round-up: Luxurious Beehive Cities on the Arcane Edge of Eternal Fincas

Has it really been three weeks since the last crowdfunding round-up in this space? Yes, it has, and the evidence is clear from both the number of campaigns that designers, publishers, and backers...

Azul Wins 2018 As d'Or; Terraforming Mars and Outfoxed Win in the Expert and Children's Categories

The winners of the 2018 As d'Or — France's "game of the year" award — were announced on Thursday, February 22 on the eve of the 2018 Festival International des Jeux:• Michael Kiesling's...

Episode #4 of The BoardGameGeek Show — The Mind, Rising Sun, Spielwarenmesse 2018, and More

Two weeks have passed, so Scott, Lincoln and I are back with a new episode of The BoardGameGeek Show. Lincoln and I talk about what we saw and played in Nürnberg, Germany while filming game...

NY Toy Fair 2018 Round-up III: Blood Bowl Blitzed, Adventures with Space Marines, and Feeling Blindsided by Nyctophobia

Let's jump into another round-up of tweets from NY Toy Fair 2018, although honestly I sent way more tweets away from the show than I did at it. While you're on site in the Javits Center, you just...

NY Toy Fair 2018 Round-up II: Forbidden Sky Less Forbidden, Story Cubes Invites Star Wars Storytelling, and Codenames Goes XXL

Let's check out a few more upcoming games on display at NY Toy Fair 2018, which ends today, Tuesday, February 20, starting with what might be the most anticipated game on display at the...

NY Toy Fair 2018 Round-up I: Eight Expansions from Gale Force Nine, Shadows in the Forest from ThinkFun, and a Prelude for Terraforming Mars

I zipped to Manhattan for thirty hours this past weekend to visit NY Toy Fair 2018, take pics of whatever I could, then zip home to prepare for a trip to Cannes, France where Lincoln and I will...

Coverage of NY Toy Fair 2018

NY Toy Fair 2018 opens on Saturday, February 17, which might be today for you depending on when you're reading these words — and if it is today, then I'm at the Javits Center taking pictures...

AMIGO Heads to the U.S.; Gamewright Yells Zoinx at Trash Pandas

• German publisher AMIGO Spiel has long had a presence on the U.S. gaming market, but only through games licensed by others. In 2018, though, AMIGO is finally opening a U.S. gaming division of...

New Game Round-up: Martin Wallace and Osprey Head into the Wildlands, and Renegade Challenges You to Prowl Carefully

• UK publisher Osprey Games released a swanky new version of Martin Wallace's London in late 2017, and now they're embarking on a new, larger project together — a miniatures-filled board game...

New Game Round-up: Race for the Galaxy Expands, Memoir '44 Goes Higher, and Munchkin Gains Turtle Power

• Designer Tom Lehmann has noted on BGG that Race for the Galaxy: Xeno Counter Strike — the second title in the Race for the Galaxy arc that began with Xeno Invasion in 2015 — has been...

Video Previews of Lookout Games' Patchwork Express, Caverna: Lost Peoples, Neom, Little Songbirds, and Isle of Skye's Second Expansion

I posted a overview of titles coming from Lookout Games in 2018 shortly after the Spielwarenmesse 2018 fair ended, and now that we've started publishing the game overview videos on YouTube —...

Video Coverage of Spielwarenmesse 2018, Starting with Coimbra

Lincoln Damerst and I shot many dozens of game overview videos at Spielwarenmesse 2018, the annual toy and game fair in Nürnberg, Germany, and now we've started publishing those videos on...

New Game Round-up: NY Toy Fair 2018 — Licenses Galore, with Star Trek Fluxx, A Wrinkle in Time, and Rick and Morty: The Pickle Rick Game

• At NY Toy Fair 2018, which opens on Saturday, February 17, U.S. publisher Looney Labs will showcase several upcoming titles that demonstrate its continued ability to merge its existing titles...

Spielwarenmesse 2018 Round-up VI: Quest Anew to El Dorado, Bounce Like a Kangaroo, and Find Catalysts to Score

Following yesterday's unexpected excitement, I think it's time for my final tweet round-up for Spielwarenmesse 2018, the annual toy and game fair in Nürnberg, Germany. I still have random pics...

Asmodee Acquires Lookout Games and Mayfair Games

The news that some gamers have been anticipating — and possibly dreading — has arrived: Asmodee has acquired German publisher Lookout Games.This news shouldn't be a surprise. In November...

Episode #3 of The BoardGameGeek Show — Kōtahi, DDoS, Kingdom: Death Monster, and Spielwarenmesse 2018

Another two weeks have passed, so it's time for episode #3 of The BoardGameGeek Show, with Scott, Lincoln, and me talking about what we've been playing, things in the news, what's happening on...

Spielwarenmesse 2018 Round-up V: Jumbo Kramer & Kiesling, Bagged Dorn, and Dogged Apologies

I think this might be the final tweet round-up for Spielwarenmesse 2018, the annual toy and game fair in Nürnberg, Germany. I still have random pics on my phone that I haven't tweeted yet, along...

Spielwarenmesse 2018 Round-up IV: Queensdale and Menara Get Ready to Rise, While Ravensburger and Queen Revamp Old Games

• At the 2018 Spielwarenmesse trade fair, Ravensburger showed off a lot of titles that it hadn't mentioned or listed on its website. Surprise! Look at all these games!The most anticipated of...

Spielwarenmesse 2018 Round-up III: Giants Invade Kingdomino, Europeans Head to Newfoundland, and Blocky Mountains Discovers a Wide Audience

• To continue with reports from the 2018 Spielwarenmesse trade fair, let's look at Age of Giants, an expansion for both the 2017 Spiel des Jahres winner Kingdomino from Bruno Cathala and Blue...

Spielwarenmesse 2018 Round-up II: An Enlarged Azul, More Distinct Eastern Wonders, and a New Lost City Found

• To continue with reports from the 2018 Spielwarenmesse trade fair, let's start with an item not necessarily available for purchase that still attracted a ton of attention: a giant-sized...

Spielwarenmesse 2018 Round-up I: Lookout Line-up, Ice Cool 2, and Feld's Carpe Diem

I'm back home from a whirlwind tour of Spielwarenmesse, the annual toy and game fair held in Nürnberg, Germany, and I'll start the reports from that show by reprinting various tweets and adding...

Crowdfunding Round-up: Endeavor to Show Pride and Pulp Terror in the Age of Sail

• What's a surefire recipe for success on Kickstarter? Take an out-of-print game that's commanding huge after-market prices like Endeavor from Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray, update it with a...

New Game Round-up: Build Castles, Constellations, Allies, Factory Goods, and Roads to Hell

• Time for another round-up of obscure Japanese games that Eric noted at some point in time and is now getting around to posting about, such as フタリシロ (Futarishiro), a two-player...

Horrible Games Offers Railroads, Unicorns, Vampires, and More in 2018

• BGG will also visit Italian publisher Horrible Games at Spielwarenmesse. While 2017 was a light year for the company, with only Dragon Castle being released, for 2018 Horrible Games has many...

Pics and Tweets from Spielwarenmesse 2018

A short note for those who might be interested in following the 2018 Spielwarenmesse toy and game fair from home: I posted ~15 pics and short descriptions from the fair on BGG's Twitter account,...

New Game Round-up: Treasures Await in Tombs and At Sea in Luxor and All Aboard?!

The Spielwarenmesse trade fair is underway in Nürnberg, Germany, and here are a few of the titles that I expect to see and record video overviews of while Lincoln Damerst and I are at the...

New Game Round-up: Amazons Join Imperial Settlers, Rails to the North Join Great Western Trail, and We All Join Hands over the Troubled Life of Billy Kerr

• While I've been focusing on new games that publishers will show at the February trade fairs, Portal Games has jumped right to teasing a SPIEL '18 release: Imperial Settlers: Amazons, the...

Asmodee to Acquire Polish Publisher Rebel

Have you been betting with other gamers which company Asmodee would purchase next? If so, whoever had their money on Polish publisher Rebel can soon collect as the Asmodee Group — the official...

New Game Round-up: Cannes 2018 Edition — Defy Gravity, Collect Birds, Spot Spells, and Achieve Complicity

• Blackrock Games is both a game publisher and a distributor for several small French game publishers, and at the Festival International des Jeux in Cannes at the end of February 2018, it will...

New Game Round-up: Count the Colors, Memorize the Dice, and Keep Your Eyes Peeled for a Scary Bunny

• German publisher Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag specializes in karten for the playing of spiele, so you might not be surprised to find two new card games coming from NSV in the first half of...