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From Mage Knight to Star Trek: Frontiers with WizKids Games

Space adventure is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Vlaada Chvátil's Mage Knight Board Game, but WizKids Games is willing to bet that it can change your mind...

Gen Con 2015 V: Runebound (Third Edition) and Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game

U.S. publisher Fantasy Flight Games had a number of surprise announcements, as is its custom, at Gen Con 2015, with the biggest of these being the revamping and relaunching of Runebound — now...

Spiel 2015 Preview: Potion Explosion, or Chemical Crush

Another representative of the international game publishing contingent at Gen Con 2015 was Lorenzo Silva from Horrible Games, who stopped by the BGG booth to show off the publisher's Spiel 2015...

Gen Con 2015 IV: Monarch, The Undercity, Vault Wars, Bad Beets, Nevermore and Wits & Wagers Deluxe

• While Codenames took the top spot on Geekbuzz during Gen Con 2015 — and did not surprise anyone by doing so — Monarch from Mary Flanagan, Zara Downs, and Max Seidman took the #2 spot and...

Gen Con 2015 III/Spiel 2015 Preview: Codenames, The Prodigals Club, Tash-Kalar: Nethervoid, Galaxy Trucker: Missions, & Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization

Vlaada Chvátil is a game design wizard, and his Codenames from Czech Games Edition was the hit of Gen Con 2015, with the game selling at a good clip and being played all over the convention...

Spiel 2015 Preview: Bauza and Cathala Explain 7 Wonders: Duel

The Gen Con and Spiel conventions have been blending together in recent years, with some publishers debuting games at Gen Con only to debut them again two months later at Spiel — and why not...

Gen Con 2015 II: Legends of Andor, Steam Time, Tumult Royal, Thieves!, New Bedford & Deck Building: The Deck Building Game

• Time for another half-dozen game demonstration videos from Gen Con 2015, including a few that serve as teasers for Spiel 2015. To start, Ted McGuire from Thames & Kosmos — the North...

The Spiel 2015 Preview Is Now Available

The Spiel 2015 Preview is now live on BoardGameGeek!For those who haven't immediately clicked away to look it over, I'll note that the Spiel 2015 Preview is launching with 414 game listings on it...

Gen Con 2015 I: Tides of Time, IS: Atlanteans, Munchkin Gloom, Three Cheers for Master, Jolly Roger & Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot

• Gen Con 2015 finished just a few days ago, but Aldie has already finished chopping up and processing some of our four-day livestream broadcast into individual game demonstration videos. The...

Gen Con 2015: Legendary Firefly, Ever-Growing X-Wing & The Return of Runebound

Gen Con 2015 is over, and Aldie has already started processing the 100+ game demonstration videos that we recorded in the BGG booth and elsewhere during the show. I'll start posting those in...

Spiel 2015 Preview: An Apology

I have promised multiple times to publish BGG's Spiel 2015 Preview on August 3, 2015, but I must delay publication until next Monday, August 10, 2015. I apologize for this and feel terrible for...

Crowdfunding Round-up: Around the World in 10 Projects

It wasn't that long ago that Kickstarter was restricted to U.S.-based project creators, but as it slowly opens up to more of the rest of the world (18 countries and counting), board game...

Video: BGG at Gen Con 2015 - Day 2 Wrap Up with Stephanie Straw

Note: This was recorded using Periscope which only allows vertical recording. We've used Periscope so we can give you these quick updates while our other equipment is not available.

Video: BGG at Gen Con 2015 - Day 1 Wrap Up with Undead Viking

Note: This video was recorded with periscope which only allows vertical video recording.

Plaid Hat Games Bought by F2Z Entertainment

During set-up day at Gen Con 2015, Canadian company F2Z Entertainment — parent company of Z-Man Games, Filosofia Éditions and Pretzel Games — announced that it had purchased U.S. publisher...

Designer Diary: Suburbia 5★

While designing/developing Suburbia Inc, the first expansion to Suburbia, I was dead set on providing a five-player version of the game as it was something that several people asked for when...

Vampires Prepare for Their Ultimate One Night

Designer Ted Alspach has a long history with werewolves, dating back to 2007's Ultimate Werewolf: Whitebox Edition in which he took the familiar party game Werewolf, a.k.a. Mafia, added new...

Munchkin Consumes Oz, Kittens, Christmas, Hipsters and More

More is coming for Munchkin from Steve Jackson Games, but you probably already knew that, didn't you? Munchkin is like oxygen, constituting 21% of the gaming atmosphere and providing the means to...

Publisher Diary: Mysterium, or What's the Difference Between Mysterium and Tajemnicze Domostwo?

This article covers the differences between Mysterium and Tajemnicze Domostwo. It is aimed at inquiring readers and fans of the version published by Portal, who already know the game.Some lucky...

New Game Round-up: Gen Con 2015 Last-Minute Edition – Attack on Titan, King of Tokyo: Draccus & Fury of Dracula?

• Wow, how did I miss this item from nearly three weeks ago? I'll blame Gen Con 2015 prep work as that's probably the cause. What am I talking about? In early July 2015, Cryptozoic...

Designer Diary: Clockwork Wars, or Intricate Gears

I had been playing around with game design for years, but Clockwork Wars represented my first serious attempt at designing a complex strategy board game. The idea for it originally stemmed from...

New Game Round-up: Experience Wrath of the Dragons, Explore Labyrinth, Expand Nations & Englishify 6 Nimmt

• At just over a week until Gen Con 2015 opens, I'm still running across news of games that will debut at the show and adding them to BGG's Gen Con 2015 Preview. The latest entrant is Wrath of...

Designer Diary: Co-Mix, or How an "Easy to Develop" Game Idea Turned Out to Be Not So Easy to Develop

The original idea for what would eventually become Co-Mix came to me around three years ago, as one of the many small personal side-projects I start when I have an idea haunting my head, but I'm...

Designer Diary: Going on My Star Trek: Five-Year Mission

Warning: The following game contains , a lot of — 35 in three colors, in fact. If you have a allergy, you should stop reading now.Most games take many years to develop. You start with an idea....

Mercury Games to Deliver Princes of the Renaissance

Well, well, well. After years of rumors and false starts, Martin Wallace's Princes of the Renaissance will appear in a new edition from Mercury Games, with the publisher planning to launch a...

Designer Diary: New York 1901, or How Our Family Stumbled Upon the Board Game Revival and Went on to Make Our Own Game

Computer GamesI left for Japan in 1994 as a 26-year-old bachelor with degrees in law and Eastern Asian studies. I came back to Canada ten years later in 2004 with a Japanese wife, two kids in tow...

Crowdfunding Round-up: Mowing, Mining, Minis, Marriage, and Magic

• Kickstarter veterans Mayday Games are back with its latest offering, Mow Money, which was one of four finalists in a Protospiel design contest back in 2011. In this game from designer Matt...

Artist Diary: Bringing Discoveries to Life

Let's start with a little anecdote: On an evening in summer 2014, I was playing Lewis & Clark with my family. At the end of the game, we ended up talking about the details of the expedition that...

Flying Frog to Bury Gen Con in Dark Gothic Shadows of Brimstone

When I prepare the Gen Con Preview each year, one company that surprises me annually is Flying Frog Productions — not because they deviate from history in the type of games they create, but...

New Game Round-up: Steal on a Double Mission, Serve at Café International & Set Up Fun at Alan's Adventureland

• Double Mission: Beyond the Object is one of two titles coming to Spiel 2015 from Korean publisher Deinko Games, and I'm not sure why you're going "beyond the object" since you're all thieves...