Tag: Board Games

NorthStar Game Studio has signed a new partnership with ICE Makes, a Hong Kong-based board game publisher focused on fun and innovative games. Through this tie-up, NorthStar will seek to expand the geographical reach of its titles, among which are acclaimed options such as Paint the Roses, Oceans, and Evolution, and particularly forthcoming releases. NorthStar Game Studio Set to Expand with Bigger Audiences  Now, ICE Makes...

Halloween II: The Game by Stop the Killer has been well-received on Kickstarter, with the game’s campaign far surpassing its initial funding goal of $17,500 and sitting at $78,188 presently. The title has elicited backing from 1,168 backers and with 23 more days to go, the numbers will be going up.  Michael Myers Returns in a Fresh Boardgame Horror Story  The...

Daily Magic Games has launched the Kickstarter camping for its most recent game, Castellans of Valeria, set in the company’s popular and successful franchise. Castellans of Valeria is due to wrap up on June 30 and it has already surpassed its $10,000 funding goal, with $33,798 pledged to the project at the time of writing.  The new game will have...

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...

No matter what time of the year it is, you may find yourself at home and ask the proverbial question: what are the best family board games you could play right know? Whether you want to feud with your family members, have a great time together in a cooperative experience, or put your thinking hats on and outsmart your...

Hasbro and Winning Moves, the publishers and owners of the Monopoly and Scrabble IPs respectively, have banded together to create a new Frankenstein crossover, Monopoly Scrabble. The game comes as a bit of an oddball at first, combining the core concept of securing the finest plots of real estate and competing in producing the highest-scoring words.  Two of the Best Classic Board Games...

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...

Fort Circle Games, a company that designs historically accurate and playable games, has been able to reach the funding goal for its latest board game, The Halls of Montezuma, following the success of its first Kickstarter campaign, Votes for Women.   This is the latest game by the designers and the fast up-and-coming studio that now focuses on a 1-2-player experience...

Monopoly’s favor with Gen Z consumers has inched downwards, a new survey by Cribbage, an online website that shows interest in all things old and nostalgic, has revealed. According to a recent survey, which focused on what the most fun classic board games are, and general board game consumer habits, Gen Z respondents said that they did not care...

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...