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fromKotaku
19 hours ago

Cyberpunk, League Of Legends Games Suggest TCGs Are Having A Moment

PAX East 2026 featured a shift from video games to trading card games, particularly a TCG based on Cyberpunk 2077.
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fromKotaku
4 weeks ago

Slay The Spire 2 Briefly Broke Steam As It Dominates The Charts

Slay the Spire 2's Early Access launch on Steam caused server crashes due to overwhelming player demand, with over 185,000 concurrent players within hours of release.
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fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Slay The Spire 2: Tips And Tricks For Getting Started

Slay the Spire 2 is intentionally harder than the original, with significantly increased enemy damage scaling, particularly in Act 1, requiring adaptive deck-building strategies rather than predetermined builds.
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fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Slay the Spire 2 Gets Review Bombed Over Balance Patch

Slay the Spire 2's Steam rating dropped from 97% to 83% due to a controversial balance patch causing 11,000 negative reviews.
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fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Slay The Spire 2 Patches Damage Exploit As It Tops 3 Million Sales

Slay the Spire 2 sold 3 million copies in its first week during Early Access, with players completing over 250 million runs while the developer plans major content updates including multiplayer improvements, accessibility features, and Steam Workshop support.
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fromKotaku
4 weeks ago

Slay The Spire 2 Briefly Broke Steam As It Dominates The Charts

Slay the Spire 2's Early Access launch on Steam caused server crashes due to overwhelming player demand, with over 185,000 concurrent players within hours of release.
Board games
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Slay The Spire 2: Tips And Tricks For Getting Started

Slay the Spire 2 is intentionally harder than the original, with significantly increased enemy damage scaling, particularly in Act 1, requiring adaptive deck-building strategies rather than predetermined builds.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 days ago

Stormgate Adding Offline Mode After Server Provider Ditches It For AI

Stormgate will lose online multiplayer access due to server provider acquisition, prompting a shift to develop an offline mode.
Board games
fromBoard Game Quest
3 days ago

The Lord of the Rings: Journey to Mordor Review

The Lord of the Rings: Journey to Mordor is a fast-paced dice game focusing on Frodo and Sam's journey to Mount Doom.
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fromEngadget
1 week ago

Beat-based dungeon crawlers, card-battling soccer sims and other new indie games worth checking out

Albatross Interactive is developing Terminal War, a 4v4 shooter inspired by the canceled Factions mode from The Last of Us.
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

3 trading card games to collect if you're looking to diversify beyond Pokemon

Many collectors are looking to diversify their collections or discover emerging categories before they reach the level of demand we're seeing with Pokémon. While rare Pokémon cards are selling for millions in some instances, its competitors are catching on as collectors look for their next up-and-coming investment.
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fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Marathon Just Became Helldivers 2 With Cryo Race To Kill Bots

Marathon's Cryo Archive map unlock requires players to collectively kill 500 million UESC security forces through an ARG, with current progress at 315 million kills suggesting the event will take another week to complete.
#crowdfunding
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fromBoard Game Quest
2 weeks ago

Top 10 Solo Board Games for Every Kind of Gamer

Solo gaming is rapidly evolving, with many games now including solo modes or automata, enhancing the tabletop gaming experience.
fromBoard Game Quest
2 weeks ago

Everbound Review

Everbound uses an 18-card construct to fill out the crew of a pirate ship. You start with your Captain and a twinkle in yer eye. And presumably a ship. Yarrrr. You'll take one of two actions per turn. Draw: Take a card from the Dock. Recruit: Play a card from your hand by paying its icon cost.
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fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Slay the Spire II is even better with a friend

Slay the Spire II launches in early access as an excellent sequel that iterates on the original while adding online co-op for up to four players, maintaining the core turn-based roguelike experience.
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fromGameSpot
3 weeks ago

All Slay The Spire 2 Bosses

Slay The Spire 2 features new bosses with unique tactics across multiple acts, requiring strategic card, class, and perk selection to overcome challenging encounters.
#board-game-crowdfunding
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Less respawning, more re-rolling: six of the best board games based on video games

Video games increasingly adapt into physical board games, with successful examples like Company of Heroes 2nd Edition and Slay the Spire translating digital mechanics into tabletop experiences using dice, miniatures, and cards.
#card-game
fromEngadget
2 years ago

The best board games to gift and play this year

This is for that friend that finishes the Wordle in three tries and solves the purple clues first in Connections. League of the Lexicon reminds me a bit of Trivial Pursuit - players or teams take turns asking everyone questions from a double-sided card with answers on the back. Questions come in five categories and cover synonyms, word origins, spelling, definitions, archaic words, grammar, linguistic trivia and more.
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fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
2 months ago

Comparing one-on-one matches and multiplayer challenges on Pusoy in English - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

English-language Pusoy expands global access and demands strategic arrangement of 13 cards into backhand, middle, and front hands respecting backhand ≥ middle ≥ front.
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fromFast Company
1 month ago

A Roman board game has mystified researchers for years. AI discovered how to play

An ancient Roman-era limestone board from Coriovallum was identified as a blocking game (Ludus Coriovalli) using AI simulations matching wear patterns.
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fromGameSpot
2 months ago
Video games

Helldivers 2 Is Letting Players Vote On Which Planet Gets Hit By Its Not-A-Death-Star

fromGameSpot
2 months ago
Video games

Helldivers 2 Is Letting Players Vote On Which Planet Gets Hit By Its Not-A-Death-Star

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fromBoard Game Quest
4 weeks ago

Top Ten (Unexpected) Board Game Side Effects

Board gaming hobbies produce unexpected psychological effects including reality distortion, media immersion, and travel fantasies beyond anticipated expenses and space concerns.
fromhttps://www.arogyayogaschool.com/blog
2 months ago

Why Short Play Sessions Beat Long Grinds In Modern Game Design

Games did not suddenly become "worse." Games adapted. Attention got tired, schedules got tighter, and competition for free time turned brutal. A ten-minute gap now has to fight against messages, videos, and endless feeds. In that environment, long-form sessions still exist, but short sessions often win because they respect reality instead of demanding a perfect evening. That shift is visible everywhere, from mobile puzzlers to competitive titles and even casino-style experiences where a quick crore win feeling is part of the appeal.
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fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

Dawnmaker Digital Review

Dawnmaker combines city-building and deck-building mechanics in a campaign-based game where players upgrade a lighthouse by gathering resources through card play and constructing buildings to progress through increasingly difficult missions.
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fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week - 3/2/26

Multiple crowdfunding board game campaigns are available, including Lion Dancers, Almighty, NPC Rivals, and One Card Dungeon, each offering distinct gameplay themes and mechanics.
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fromGame Informer
1 month ago

Arkheron Preview - A Promising Battle Royale (No, Seriously) - Game Informer

Arkheron is an isometric PvP battle royale where 15 three-player teams compete in a fantasy tower, blending shooter action with Hades-style loot and rotating Eternals.
fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

MicroMacro: The Home Game Jigsaw Puzzle Review

MicroMacro: The Home Game Jigsaw Puzzle is a 500-piece puzzle that utilizes the same art style as all other MicroMacro titles. The puzzle depicts a socc....errrrr, a football game, as well as the neighborhood surrounding the stadium. It is "just" a puzzle; however, there is more to it after you complete it. There are forty-two hidden objects to find (think Where's Waldo?), as well as two cases to solve, like other MicroMacro games.
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fromWIRED
2 months ago

Board Is Tabletop Tablet Gaming-but With Physical Pieces

Board is a physical-digital hybrid gaming system aimed at children, offering varied launch titles, mixed family reception, and uncertain future content pricing and durability.
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fromKotaku
1 month ago

Hearthstone Isn't A Real Card Game (Yet), Here's Why

Hearthstone will not be released as a physical trading card game because many features rely on digital mechanics that would be lost in translation.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

10 Games To Play On Your Phone Instead Of Doomscrolling

Short, high-quality mobile games provide a satisfying, non-terrifying distraction from doomscrolling and fit into spare moments like commutes, coffee breaks, and evenings.
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fromwww.gamespot.com
2 months ago

Arc Raiders Now Features "Aggression-Based Matchmaking," Dev Confirms

Arc Raiders now uses aggression-based matchmaking that groups players by PvP or PvE tendencies in addition to skill and party size.
#arc-raiders
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fromGameSpot
1 month ago

The Best Co-Op Card Games For An Argument-Free Board Game Night

Co-operative card games emphasize teamwork and shared problem-solving, offering variety from deduction and storytelling to trick-taking and party styles for families and adult groups.
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fromGameSpot
1 month ago

The Best Co-Op Games For Four Player Game Nights

Four-player co-op offers an ideal balance for multiplayer sessions, delivering diverse cooperative experiences that reward communication, coordination, and teamwork across varied game styles.
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fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Civilization 7 Is Finally Coming To Mobile, Exclusively On Apple Arcade

Civilization 7 Arcade Edition launches on Apple Arcade February 5 with touch-optimized UI for iPhone, iPad, and Mac; no Android port planned.
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fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Gwent: A Legendary Card Game Review

Gwent is a two-player strategic card game where players use faction decks, place cards on rows, and win rounds by higher strength totals.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

A beginner's guide to Arc Raiders: what it is and how you start playing

Created by Swedish developer Embark Studios, Arc Raiders is an extraction shooter: an online multiplayer game that drops you into a world with other people to search for valuable weapons and items before attempting to escape with all your spoils. You can play alone or with up to two friends in a squad. Most extraction shooters feature two types of gameplay: Player vs Environment (PvE), which means exploring the world and fighting computer controlled enemies,
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fromGameSpot
2 months ago

The Best New Co-Op Games From The Last 6 Months

The best new co-op games are those that do something a bit different, offering more than a single-player experience with another player thoughtlessly tacked on. These multiplayer games account for groups of friends all wanting their own role, with a shared goal in sight and plenty of chaos on the path to getting there.
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fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

Top 10 Boss Battler Board Games

Tabletop boss battlers that allow attacking the boss from round one emphasize immediate cooperative combat, positioning, pattern manipulation, and varied high-stakes mechanics.
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fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

Most Anticipated Board Games of 2026

World Order offers an accessible, thematic Eurogame simulating 2010 international relations with asymmetric factions, standardized gameplay, and a viable 2-player, 90-minute variant.
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fromEngadget
2 months ago

Civilization VII comes to Apple Arcade in February

Civilization VII will join Apple Arcade on February 5, offering Apple Arcade subscribers free access despite mixed reviews and generally praised visuals.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Embracing board games as a winning strategy for digital detox

Long Island's tabletop gaming expo celebrates handcrafted, tactile board, card, miniature, and role-playing games, highlighting physical interaction and indie creators.
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Gambler's Table Review: Can't Stop Flipping, Won't Stop Flipping

The goal of Gambler's Table is to click a coin to flip it over. And then flip it again. And then again. And again. And again. When this coin lands with the money symbol facing up, you get a dollar. When it lands heads up, showing a skull, you get a skull point that can be used to buy hats.
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fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

Peninsula Review

Peninsula uses a deck of 30 icon cards (or 24 if you are playing solo) with icons for each of the landscape features you will be placing on the island. Each card has two icons separated by a river. In competitive play, the active player selects the icon they want to add to their island. The remaining icon on the opposite side of the river is used by the other players.
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fromKotaku
2 months ago

Deadlock Is Secretly Growing Into An S-Tier MOBA Shooter

A thriving fan art community is always a sign of an entrenched playerbase. , Valve's secretive MOBA hero shooter, is currently teeming with creations all over social media that span the big three categories: horny, cute, and funny. In a way, these are perfect descriptors for the overall vibe of the latest six heroes to join the roster, which, alongside a plethora of additions and visual tweaks introduced in last week's big update, have led to a newfound momentum worth paying attention to.
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fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Orbit Review

Orbit is a 2–4 player racing game where players manipulate eight moving planets and limited propulsion to visit all planets and return to their home planet first.
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fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Millennia: Tracks of Time Review

Millennia: Tracks of Time is a Euro-style, track-focused civilization-builder where technologies and buildings become obsolete through eight ages, emphasizing drafting, worker placement, and track management.
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fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Biathlon Blast Review

Biathlon Blast simulates skiing and shooting with card-driven movement, heart-rate effects, wind changes, and dice-based shooting that converts points into lap movement.
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