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First Look at The Infinite Board Game

Today is International TableTop Day, as decreed by Geek & Sundry, the folks behind Wil Wheaton's TableTop series of game demonstration videos, and you may or may not be participating in a...

Designer Diary: A Fistful Of Dinero, or A Game of Violence and Greed

A Fistful Of Dinero, a game of violence and greed, is a half-hour saloon brawl in which a group of vagrants and outlaws draw iron, throw chairs, and scramble for a pot of poker money in the...

Ares Games Pits Players Against Poseidon, Pirates & Premature Previews

• Italian publisher Ares Games has three new titles in the offing, two of which put you on ocean waters in time for Gen Con 2015 and a third that consists of little more than a title for now in...

New Game Round-up: Dirty Detectives, Cemetery Fights & Zombicide Through the Ages

• You can't keep a good zombie down, especially when they sell like hotcakes, which might be the reason why Cool Mini Or Not and Guillotine Games have announced the next title in the Zombicide...

Links: Lessons for Designers and Publishers, Obscure Hot Games & Do That Haiku That You Do So Well

• Looking to pitch a game to a publisher? Perhaps you should check out Daniel Solis' "5 Pitching Lessons from Tabletop Deathmatch (so far)" in which he elaborates on lessons such as...

Asmodee Brings Forth Olympians, Warriors, Dinosaurs, Space Pirates, Regal Aspirants, Line-Jumping Bugs & Nationalistic Dice

Sometimes it's complicated to write about Asmodee releasing this game or that on the market because in most cases Asmodee is distributing the game, not publishing it. Why this matters is because...

New Game Round-up: Fast and Furious on the Table, Real-Time Deckbuilding in the Caribbean & Martin Wallace in Zombieland

• Following on the heels of Cryptozoic Entertainment's Ghostbusters revival, here's yet another movie-franchise-turned-board-game: Fast & Furious: Full Throttle, from Jeff and Carla Horger...

IELLO: Warring Words, Skirmishing Submarines, Jousting Knights and Attacking Aliens

2015 looks to be another big year for IELLO, with two new games recently released and more details announced about three mid-year releases.• An English edition of Konito?, designed by Richard...

Crowdfunding Round-up: Groping in the Dark for Vikings, Wizards, Animals & More

This might be hard to believe, but in the BGG News post that went live just a few days ago I didn't exhaust the list of games undergoing crowdfunding. I know, right? In fact, I heard from quite a...

Grail Games: Pursuing Princesses and Making Matcha

Australian publisher Grail Games has announced two titles to be released in June and July 2015.• The first is Too Many Cinderellas, a small card game from Nobutake Dogen and Nao Shimamura...

New Game Round-up: Science for Humanity, Churches for Carcassonne & Fluxx for the TableTop

• In April 2015, U.S. publisher Atlas Games plans to release Three Cheers for Master from Daniel Windfeld Schmidt, and the game description gives you a feel for the setting, if not the...

Friedemann Friese Floods the Market with 504

Each year at Spiel, the annual game convention in Essen, Germany, designers and publishers present hundreds of new games to thousands of fairgoers. At Spiel 2014, for example, convention...

Links: Planning Your Game Design, Surviving in Pandemic & Settling in Brooklyn

• I haven't played Magic: The Gathering in a long time, but I still read head designer Mark Rosewater's "Making Magic" column each week because I enjoy reading about Magic design and because...

Crowdfunding Round-up: No Pranks Included — Only Honest-to-Goodness Projects That You Still Might Not Believe Are Real

We've barely cleared the edge of March, but the crowdfunding projects announced during that month have nearly clogged the internet pipes leading to my house. Time to clear them out before the...

BGG Roundtable: Women & Gaming

I'm hosting a livestream roundtable on the topic of women and gaming tonight, Tuesday, March 31, 2015, with guests Anne-Marie De Witt (Fireside Games), Brittanie Boe (GameWire/GTS Distribution),...

Links: Hippodice 2015, How to Shuffle & Eggert and Allers on Design and Publication

Man, it's been a while since I last ran a links round-up since I started posting most of them on BGG's Twitter feed, but here are several that either don't work well in that format or are...

New Game Round-up: Roll in an Expanded Galaxy, Mogul in an Expanded Setting & Rule in the Same Old Egypt

• Rio Grande Games owner Jay Tummelson has stated that "Roll for the Galaxy: Ambition, the first expansion to Roll for the Galaxy, will be coming this fall [i.e., Q4 2015]. New factions, new...

Crowdfunding Round-up: Zombies a Cookin', Dice a Tumblin', Treehouses a Buildin', and A Few Other Games That Do Not Fit This Pattern

So EVERY month is big on Kickstarter, but February and March 2015 seemed to have a million projects that caught my attention. I backed more than I intended and steadfastly ignored a few I might...

Game Preview: Thunderbirds, or It's Another Matt Leacock Cooperative Game Go!

It's hard to think about co-operative games without designer Matt Leacock coming to mind. His game Pandemic ran through multiple print runs in 2007 as quickly as Z-Man Games could get copies from...

Star Wars: Armada — Unboxing and Playtime

The long-awaited and (thanks to a cargo-unloading wage dispute on the U.S. west coast) somewhat delayed Star Wars: Armada from James Kniffen and Fantasy Flight Games CEO Christian T. Petersen has...

Fireside Games Incites Panic over The Dark Titan, Adds Chaos to Bears & Encourages Witchcraft in The Village Crone

In 2015 U.S. publisher Fireside Games plans to release two expansions for existing titles and one new title, starting with Castle Panic: The Dark Titan on April 1, 2015. This expansion adds new...

Cryptozoic to Add Watchmen to DC Comics DBG, Batman to Fluxx & Cake to Portal

• Following the 2015 GAMA Trade Show, Cryptozoic Entertainment posted a recap of its activities at the show, noting that mere days after shipping out DC Comics Deck-Building Game: Crossover...

PAX East Part III: Nevermore, Twirk with Heavy Steam and More

In early March 2015, I had the chance to head to PAX East and catch up with the latest happenings in board gaming. Here's my third round-up of videos from the event highlighting upcoming board...

Five Tribes Revised: Slaves Are Out, Fakirs In

The release of Bruno Cathala's Five Tribes from Days of Wonder in September 2014 was greeted with many huzzahs for the gameplay, but one aspect of the components upset many of those who otherwise...

PAX East Part II: Asmadi Games Update, Funemployed, Letter Tycoon and More

In early March 2015, I had the chance to head to PAX East and catch up with the latest happenings in board gaming. Here's the second round-up of videos from the event covering board and card...

New Game Round-up: Justin Gary Serves Bad Beets, Funforge Prepares for Circular Racing & Marco Polo Reaches North America in Q2 2015

• In a departure from its normal fare, the next standalone game from Stone Blade Entertainment and CEO/designer Justin Gary is a 2-5 player card game called Bad Beets. Here's a rundown of the...

PAX East Part I: Orcs Must Die! The Boardgame, Cinelinx, Mahou Shojo, and Poop

In early March 2015, I had the chance to head to PAX East and catch up with the latest happenings in board gaming. I'll have more updates in future posts on BGG NewsOrcs Must Die!One of the big...

New Game Round-up: AEG Recreates Lost Legacy, Revisits Valley of the Kings, Renames Rumpelstiltskin & Reveals Game of Crowns

• Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) has a ton of titles due out in 2015 beyond what I've previously announced from them, such as Dark Seas and various Love Letter spinoffs. To provide a bit of...

New Game Round-up: New Enemies for Shadows of Brimstone, The Return of Spinball & Asmadi Promises Chudyk Galore with Mottainai, More Impulse and More Innovation

• While many game publishers were showing off their upcoming titles at GAMA Trade Show, U.S. publisher Asmadi Games held a "not at GAMA" YouTube press conference to show off its upcoming...

Designer Diary and Game Overview: Arboretum, or Losing (and Finding) Yourself Amongst the Trees

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them — that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." —Lao...