Tag: Board Games

You may know Friedmann Friese or, as is the curse of our hobby, you may be better familiar with his excellent games, among which Power Grid, Famiglia, Fabled Fruit, and Friday, among many others. Now, Friese is going back to basics with a new version of the 2010 classic Black Friday, a game about stock market manipulation and trading...

Imperial Publishing Inc. has launched a Kickstarter campaign designed to bring Michael Kiesling’s acclaimed board game, Sanssouci, to the United States. The name Kiesling resonates with the community, as this is the designer behind such hit games as Azul, Tikal, Heaven & Ale, and many other prominent titles. Sanssouci has already attracted a fair bit of interest with the modest...

The fittingly called “Board Games on My Mind” book (about board games) by Polish game designer Adam Kwapiński may have slipped on your news feed but it shouldn’t have. Kwapiński has crafted some of the most entertaining experiences in the industry with both Nemesis and Frostpunk: The Board Game proving two of the most engaging and thematic cooperative (although...

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...

Some of the most easily recognizable animated characters, The Smurfs, will get their very own board game from the designers behind tabletop blockbusters such as 7 Wonders and Dead Cell. The designers are collectively known as Team Kaedama and they have been pushing out some pretty neat games. Those include Antoine Bauza’s 7 Wonders, Théo Rivière and Corentin Lebrat’s Sea...

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...

Ravensburger has announced two new editions for the Disney Villainous franchise with Introduction to Evil (Disney100 Edition) and Filled with Fright both coming later in 2023 as part of the constantly expanding library of games set in the popular game system. Each box will have its twist and characters to explore. Introduction to Evil (Disney1000 Edition) comes with four villains, including Captain Hook, Price John, Ursula, and Maleficent. Although the characters were already...

The year 2023 has been simply one of the best for tabletop adaptations of popular video games. The latest to follow in this trend is Terraria, the 2D game by R-Logic which will get a board game makeover by Paper Fort Games.  The news was revealed on the video game’s official website with R-Logic confirming that the studio is working with Paper Fort Games to make Terraria: The Board Game happen....

Challengers, the popular auto-battling capture-the-flag deck builder, is getting a new expansion which adopts the same name as Challengers 2. The new game can be played both as a standalone version of the original 1-8-player title by Z-Man Games or be used to expand the experience. At the heart of Challengers lies a web of straightforward mechanics which, when put together, produce highly-rewarding and...