by W. Eric Martin Time to catch up on a handful of announcements from the past month: - In early November 2025, San Diego Historical Games Convention, a.k.a. SDHist, gave its fourth annual Summit Award to War Story: Occupied France, a 1-6 player game ...
by OnJoueTu How Did It Start? Mathieu Bieri: The story of Naishi is a story of chance encounters and happenstance. I had been working on a prototype for a game called "Drakkar" that had a simple principle of five tiles on a card stand that would ...
by W. Eric Martin - To follow up an earlier November 2025 post, KOSMOS has now revealed more of its early 2026 line-up. Klaus Teuber's Catan Dice Game, which first appeared in 2007, will be re-released as CATAN: Das Würfelspiel, with this edition ...
by W. Eric Martin - As German publishers prep for Spielwarenmesse -- the annual toy fair in Nürnberg, Germany at the end of January -- they're starting to promote what's coming, with AMIGO Spiel teasing the four titles it plans to release in early ...
by W. Eric Martin Sjoerd Yska's Badass Bunnies from 999 Games gives you a simple goal: Reveal at least ten bunnies from your deck of cards in a single turn. You start with only two bunnies, though, so you'll need to pick up more as quickly as you can ...
by Box of Delights Deckers began as a somewhat different game, way back in 2010. Such is the way with board game design and development. It was a time when the hobby of board games was really starting to hot up. I had recently discovered modern board ...
by Alberto Camaño Pascual Paddy -- Diario del Diseñador (Español) Dear community, I'd like to share with you the design journey of Paddy, both as a thank you to all the players who made this exciting world possible and as a source of inspiration ...
by NicoleMaynard Frog Faire began as a Renaissance Faire/Olympics-themed card game in 2023. Tapping into the athletic nature of frogs and a fairytale setting like Rebel Princess, I brainstormed a list of Olympic-inspired activities frogs might be ...
by Derek Yeung I had the honor of attending Game Market Spring 25 in Japan on May 17-18, 2025, receiving a press pass for the event on behalf of BGG. (I'm a Team Geek volunteer at BGG events and picked up games from this event for the BGG Library.)
by W. Eric Martin - Announcing yet another new edition of a game in the Hasbro catalog, U.S. publisher Renegade Game Studios will re-release Peter Lee and Rodney Thompson's Lords of Waterdeep in April 2026, along with the Scoundrels of Skullport ...
by Greyfax Hey, folks, it's a short column this time as I am hosting an event this weekend and have a ton to do. Here is the question: Can we kick out a player who is in cognitive decline? We've touched on this before, and I'm going to do a ...
