• Designers Leonard Boyd and David Brashaw from Backspindle Games are taking preorders for Clacks: A Discworld Board Game, with the game scheduled to debut at the Irish Discworld Convention in...
Hi there. After the ridiculousness of February and March 2015 – I think I backed, like, six projects – I did not pay attention to Kickstarter much in April. By the time I write another one of...
Portal Games has announced that an expansion for Imperial Settlers will debut at Gen Con 2015, adding the long-awaited fifth faction to the game. Imperial Settlers: Atlanteans allows players to...
Whenever I visit a large city, especially one outside the United States, I want to walk it. I want to absorb all that I can about the landscape around me, not launching myself from one tourist...
I'm headed to Tokyo Game Market in a couple of hours, and while I wish I could say that I'm well-prepared for the show, I have no idea what to expect beyond a whirlwind of hundreds of games being...
(Editor's note: This article first appeared on BoardgameNews.com on Dec. 29, 2008. My apologies for the watermarks on the images, but these are the only versions that I still have. Thanks to Paul...
• Time to clean house a bit with announcements from a handful of different publishers, starting with the news that Sebastian Kreutz and Dominik Lau, the designers of Crysis Analogue Edition:...
• U.S. publisher Stronghold Games has declared 2015 "The Year of Survive!", but I strongly suspect — and this might just be me talking through my hat but hear me out — that the declaration...
Pirates are like nitrogen these days, dancing through the air around you and eager to get in your lungs, despite not being good for your health. Witness the announcement from IDW Games and...
• Time for another runthrough of an unpalatably large number of games undergoing crowdfunding at the moment, starting with the biggest boss in the room: Apocrypha Adventure Card Game from...
Portal Games has already announced one new release for Gen Con 2015 with Tides of Time, and now it's launched another title toward a debut in Indianapolis with Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot, a...
In a March 2014 BGG News post, I included two images of Mission: Red Planet, one from co-designer Bruno Cathala and another (now missing) from co-designer Bruno Faidutti, but with elements in the...
• Here we go again? One of the many titles that Asmodee is bringing to market in 2015 in its role as distributor (and sometime publisher) is The Builders: Antiquity from designer Frédéric...
• The publication history of Junta from designers Eric Goldberg, Ben Grossman and Vincent Tsao feels like a mini-lesson in the nature of juntas themselves, with the publisher name and graphic...
• Nominations have dropped for the 2015 Origins Awards, and arguments about which games have been overlooked or unjustly elevated are already underway. Here are the nominees from a few of the...
Dungeons & Dragons: Temple of Elemental Evil Board Game is the first major board game I've worked on in my career. Fortunately, I got to work with Peter Lee, who has been on the design team for...
Game Market takes place in Tokyo on May 5, 2015 — two weeks from the date of this post — and BoardGameGeek will have a presence at the show in the form of me running around to grab whatever...
Not long after Days of Wonder announced the replacement of slave cards in Bruno Cathala's Five Tribes with fakir cards, the publisher has announced an expansion for the game — the first...
I like everything I do to be an improvement on what I've done before. That means I study a lot, and often in directions that don't immediately apply to board games. For Dungeons & Dragons: Temple...
• Jason Brenner from Upper Deck Entertainment has released more details of Legendary Encounters: A Predator Deck Building Game, notably that the game is based on the first two Predator films,...
First off, One Night Resistance isn't a knock off of either One Night Ultimate Werewolf or The Resistance. It's a totally different game that stands on its own.If you love The Resistance,...
• On the Hyperbole Games site, designer Grant Rodiek laments past choices on the name of Hocus Poker and offers advice for other designers:Quote:Despite it being a key component of our origin...
Mock-up coverEven with many other games already announced as forthcoming in 2015 — including designs based on Orphan Black and The Godfather — the publishing partnership of IDW Games and...
Ascension debuted in 2010 as part of the first wave of deck-building games in the wake of Dominion's ground-shifting onslaught on the gaming public, with Thunderstone (Dominion in a dungeon),...
For those who don't know, the Gathering of Friends is an invite-only game convention that designer Alan R. Moon started in 1990, and while the convention was indeed a gathering of friends when it...
• On Bangor Daily News, Abigail Curtis reports on apparent zoning violations by the owners of Cards Against Humanity for "installation of a platform, shed and safe within 22 feet of the...
City-building is a common theme for game designers and publishers, and it's easy to see why: Due to their familiarity with the subject matter through its omnipresence in the world, players can...
I've talked about Manuel Rozoy's Time Stories a lot since October 2012 — including four published previews — and during that time the publisher has changed from GameWorks to Space Cowboys....
When you think of Portal Games, grandiose game designs tend to come to mind such as Neuroshima Hex! and Stronghold, Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island and Legacy: The Testament of...
You know which game is super popular and has fans that constantly rave about its wonderfulness? Don Eskridge's The Resistance. You know another game that fits this same description? One...