Krasen Gechev

Artists have been furious with board games publisher Cryptozoic Entertainment and for good reason. Allegedly, the publisher has not paid some of their artists for months on end. The issue has reached a boiling point for some of them, like Brazilian artist Marco Tamura, who published an open letter to Cryptozoic Entertainment on June 12 via Twitter, originally reported...

The topic of Artificial Intelligence is quite controversial these days, with opinions being extremely polarized in either direction. However, we can all agree that design, and all its aspects, is perhaps one of the areas most affected by the sudden boom in AI technology. Anyone can just enter a prompt into an AI generator and create images, but they...

Magic: The Gathering Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth will probably go down in history as the most valuable set to date. It has already shaken the world's card economy with mind-blowing prices, most notably The One Ring’s over $2 million fetch price (with delicious paella included in the offer). Naturally, this has sparked extreme interest...

In yet another video game-to-tabletop success story, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R board game is enjoying amazing success in Gamefound, accumulating $1,763,556 since its launch, easily surpassing the now-modest original $50,000 goal. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The Board Game is currently backed by 8,576 backers, and those numbers are sure to grow as it progresses. The project still has 19 days left, so there is...

The One Ring's preciousness no longer exclusively applies to the Lord of the Rings universe, as proven by the offer made by popular Valencian game store Gremio de Dragones (which translates to "Dragons' Guild") to obtain its Magic the Gathering's card form. The game store put a bounty on The One Ring 001/001, offering a mind-blowing €2 million for...

A good number of board game players love the strategy genre. A strategy game is not simply about war or moving pieces of armies across the board. It’s often so much more, from the asymmetry of Root to the innovative theme of Ark Nova, right down to the sobering realism of Through the Ages, which one of the best...

These are turbulent times in the world of board gaming, as controversy has reached Disney Lorcana, as Upper Deck have announced they are suing Ravensburger - the studio responsible for Disney Lorcana - and a former Upper Deck game designer for allegedly stealing and copying core mechanics of a card game and then repackaging them. To add further detail, Upper...

This year’s UK Games Expo did not go without controversy, as a tabletop RPG was blocked from appearing due to themes of sexuality and queerness. As previously predicted, 2023 was a major success for the UK Games Expo, smashing the attendance record and cementing a successful post-COVID recovery. However, this latest controversy caused a lot of negative reactions, which...

In the latest bit of controversy within the board game world, former BattleTech Reddit moderators were ousted for their less-than-proper reaction to Pride Month. To be more specific, the moderators outright removed a zine of a queer BattleTech fanfiction without warning or explanation. This caused quite a bit of controversy and outrage, so much so that BattleTech publisher Catalyst...

Recently, the board game review titans The Dice Tower became the center of attention, after deleting their YouTube review of the critically acclaimed board game Darwin's Journey. The reason for the deletion of the video was a misinterpretation of the game's rules by Dice Tower founder and host Tom Vasel. He has since made a formal apology and statement...