by Justin Schroeder There is, perhaps, no greater analogy for game design than baseball. To the casual observer, baseball is long and boring and has lots of arcane rules. Getting to the game itself is often grueling and expensive. (Pop quiz: What ...
by W. Eric Martin The cover of Ananda, a 2-4 player game from Dirk Barsuhn and Zoch Verlag that debuted at SPIEL Essen 24, promises a certain vibe: meditative, calm ...
by Stopgap Games Hey, we're Stopgap Games -- three board game hobbyists-turned-designers, and we recently launched our first game through Indie Boards & Cards: Top Tier! About the Game Top Tier is what happens when you take those internet tier list ...
by W. Eric Martin For a change of pace, let's avoid all tariff-related items in this round-up of stories about tabletop games: - In March 2025, The MIT Press published The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully, a book by Tracy Fullerton and Matthew ...
by Christopher Chan It's amazing what three bored board game designers can do on a six-hour car ride. Push Push Penguin began when David Gordon, TAM, and I were carpooling to CuseCon in 2021. It wasn't the first time that David and TAM brainstormed a ...
by W. Eric Martin - U.S. publisher Greater Than Games has suspended all new projects and let go of most of its staff. Here's what was posted on the GTG website on April 17, 2025: Effective today, tabletop game publisher Greater Than Games has ...
by W. Eric Martin - German publisher KENDi has extended its line of tiny games with two new titles in Q1 2025. Reinhard Staupe's 2-5 player card game Blanco sounds like yet another take on the golf-style games prevalent on the market, but instead of ...
by W. Eric Martin Just a few days ago, Days of Wonder started teasing a Star Wars-themed version of Richard Borg's Memoir '44 -- or more generally, a Star Wars-themed version of Borg's Commands & Colors game system. And now it's officially announced ...
by W. Eric Martin Macedonian publisher Final Fronter Games has posted updates on three as-yet-unfulfilled crowdfunding campaigns for The Sixth Realm (Kickstarter link), Merchants Cove: Master Craft (KS link), and Coloma: New Prospects (Gamefound link ...
by Oink Games Inc. A Whale of a Game Question: Can you tell us about the development of Whale To Look? Jun Sasaki: Whale To Look was released in May 2023 at Game Market. This game was co-designed by myself, Jun Sasaki, and the renowned French game ...
by W. Eric Martin - The Tekken video game series debuted in 1994, and over the past thirty years publisher Namco Bandai Games has released multiple new editions and spin-off titles, with the most recent being Tekken 8 in 2024. ukasz Woniak, who ...
