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fromKotaku
10 hours ago

Cult Game Sequel Scrambles After Crowdfunder Misplaces Cash

Ubgoe withheld the funds raised in the campaign, which were supposed to be delivered by September of 2025. When they inquired, Ubgoe only fulfilled half of the money.
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fromEngadget
16 hours ago

Devils on the Moon brings the score-chasing of pinball to the Playdate

"I think one of my most-played games is Pokemon Pinball, but the idea to make a pinball game came from Mario... he came to me and say 'JP, I want to make a custom engine for Playdate and we should make a pinball game.'"
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fromEngadget
2 days ago

Jason Blundell announces his new-new studio, Magic Fractal

Jason Blundell has launched a new studio, Magic Fractal Studios, following the closure of Dark Outlaw Games.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Life Is Strange: Reunion review a decade-long story comes to an impassioned close

In 2015, Life Is Strange stood out for its female protagonists and unique millennial cringe, capturing the essence of coming-of-age stories through character relationships.
Television
fromKotaku
1 week ago

Dimension 20 Is Finally Doing A Vampire: The Masquerade Campaign

Dimension 20 has primarily used Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition across its campaigns, with occasional side quests using other systems. The main cast has only deviated from D&D for the sixth campaign, A Starstruck Odyssey, which utilized an unofficial Star Wars system.
DC food
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fromKotaku
2 days 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.
Board games
fromKotaku
2 days ago

Puzzle Spy International Deserves To Be Played By Way More People

Puzzle Spy International offers a collection of 11 engaging puzzles with a light story, ideal for solo or cooperative play.
Video games
fromKotaku
3 days ago

Slay The Spire 2 Dev Confirms New Character, Modes Are Coming

Slay the Spire 2 will introduce new characters and modes during early access, enhancing gameplay and competitive options.
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fromInverse
3 days ago

The Biggest RPG Phenomenon Of The 2020s Is Coming To TV

Dungeon Crawler Carl is being adapted into a TV series, marking a significant moment for the LitRPG genre and its mainstream acceptance.
fromwww.engadget.com
3 days ago

Apple Arcade just got two indie gems

Dredge+ is the complete edition of the game, with all released DLC content. This is pretty much a perfect video game that combines fishing with bone-chilling horror.
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fromKotaku
5 days ago

Hope For A New Open World Lord Of The Rings RPG Is Surging

Warhorse Studios may be developing a Lord of the Rings game, but conflicting rumors and industry challenges create uncertainty.
Games
fromKotaku
3 days ago

How To Finish Big Open World Games Like Crimson Desert

Focusing on one open-world game at a time enhances motivation and progress, making it easier to complete them.
#the-lord-of-the-rings
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fromGameSpot
5 days ago

New The Lord Of The Rings Game Coming From Tomb Raider Studio - Report

Crystal Dynamics is developing a new The Lord of the Rings game, alongside two Tomb Raider titles, aiming to compete with Hogwarts Legacy.
fromThe Atlantic
4 days ago

Today's Atlantic Trivia: Video Games

Nintendo was founded in 1889, the same year the Eiffel Tower opened in Paris, starting as a manufacturer of Japanese playing cards.
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fromKotaku
5 days ago

MindsEye CEO Says Was The Worst Launch Ever But It's Fun Now

MindsEye's CEO claims the game has improved post-launch despite ongoing criticism and a mixed user rating.
fromThe Verge
6 days ago

150 million users later, Roblox competitor Rec Room is shutting down

"We never quite figured out how to make Rec Room a sustainably profitable business, and our costs always ended up overwhelming the revenue we brought in."
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fromEngadget
6 days ago

BOXROOM lets you build a cozy game room for your Steam library

Customize a virtual space to showcase your game library with personalized furniture and game displays.
Intellectual property law
fromKotaku
4 weeks ago

Ashes of Creation CEO Breaks Silence Following Legal Victory

Steven Sharif, former CEO of Intrepid Studios, achieved a legal victory against the Board of Directors over claims of fiduciary duty breaches, trade secret violations, and unlawful asset seizure related to Ashes of Creation's collapse.
Video games
fromKotaku
6 days ago

Crimson Desert Voice Actor Had To Fight For His Character's Story

The game's chaotic development led to inconsistent direction and frequent changes in plot and character details during the recording process.
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fromVG247
6 days ago

Love and Deepspace has kicked off a new event, squarely around Caleb's new Memory Pair.

A new event, Ghosts' Final March, introduces a 5-Star Memory Pair for Caleb and various rewards, available until April 11.
#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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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Asking Eric: Their choices for game night are so cringey

Accept others' preference for simple games or bow out; use nonverbal tactics and classroom strategies to command attention despite a soft voice.
#board-game-crowdfunding
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fromBoard Game Quest
2 weeks ago

Endeavor: Deep Sea Review

Endeavor: Deep Sea is a strategic exploration game with modular board gameplay, multiple play modes (solo, cooperative, competitive), and mission-based scenarios with unique goals and impact tracking mechanics.
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fromKotaku
1 month ago

Esoteric Ebb Has A Lot Of Hilarious Ways In Which You Can Die

Esoteric Ebb is an isometric RPG combining Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium elements, released March 3, where character stat allocation significantly impacts gameplay difficulty and survival.
Board games
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
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fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

December board game update

Planet Money Board Game released an updated near-final prototype for public testing after incorporating listener feedback.
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.
Books
UX design
fromMedium
2 months ago

Escaping AI sludge, Figma Make prompts, UX for board games

AI-driven workflows have produced homogenized products, making brands sterile; designers should prioritize craft and delightful MVPs to solve user problems and differentiate experiences.
Board games
fromBoard Game Quest
3 weeks ago

Top 10 Influential Years in Board Gaming History

Board gaming history is evaluated by identifying the most influential years, with only pre-2016 years qualifying due to requiring nearly a decade to assess impact.
fromInverse
2 months ago

Could 2026 Be The Best Year For RPGS Ever?

The last five years have seen a tremendous resurgence of role-playing games, from the turn-based masterpieces of Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, to the action-packed Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. And staggeringly, it looks like that trend is set to continue well into 2026. While there's undoubtedly a handful of games we don't know about, even what we do have looks like it's going to make this another banner year for RPGs.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I don't like organised fun, but Dungeons and Dragons is my shining nerdy light amid the darkness | Patrick Lenton

I wish this was a one-off blip in my regimented friendship schedule, but all through 2025 I played the world's slowest game of message tennis. I'd invite a pal for dinner, only for the world to turn, the seasons pass, grey hairs gather at my temples, before a date was finally locked in. This sentiment seems to be common among my circle.
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fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Baldur's Gate to be turned into TV series - without the game's developers

A Baldur's Gate TV series will adapt events after the latest game, produced by Craig Mazin without direct involvement from developer Larian Studios.
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fromPortland Monthly
3 weeks ago

The Best Portland Venues for Tabletop Role-Playing Games

Tabletop RPG gaming has expanded from private homes to public venues like pubs and cafés across Portland, with dedicated gaming spaces offering both drop-in play and organized campaigns.
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fromBoard Game Quest
1 month 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.
Board games
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.
Board games
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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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.
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Baldur's Gate 3 Director Addresses Missing Switch 2 Port

Baldur's Gate 3 is a game that would make perfect sense on the Switch 2. Nintendo's console has mouse controls thanks to the new Joy-Con 2 controllers, and Larian's award-winning RPG would have been a great fit for its point-and-click capabilities. From the sound of it, the studio was down to bring Gale, Astarion, Shadowheart, and everyone else to Nintendo's platform, but someone got in the way.
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fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

Grand Central Skyport Review

Your skyport has dual-colored stations that score when airships of the same color land in a corresponding lane next to the station. Getting a couple of tycoons to help boost your score or change the placement abilities doesn't hurt. But, there's a catch. Each airship card's ability rarely allows for getting an airship next to the intended station on the first go.
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fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Divinity Announcement Has Driven Way More People To Larian's Previous Games

Divinity announcement at The Game Awards 2025 significantly boosted sales of Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Baldur's Gate 3 Gets More Magic: The Gathering Cards

Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair drops Baldur's Gate 3 set Feb 9 with roughly 30 new cards, including five cards each for Gale and Shadowheart.
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fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Baldur's Gate 3 Publisher Says Morrowind Update Would Be Top Seller

Michael Douse endorses a modern remake of Morrowind with updated combat, asserting it would sell extremely well.
Board games
fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

Dust Biters Review

Dust Biters is a compact two-player 18-card tactical racing game emphasizing simple rules, deep positional decisions, and quick 10–15 minute matches.
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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.
fromPortland Monthly
1 month ago

The Rise of Public Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Portland

TPK, a combo brewery and gaming space that opened in 2023, eases entry for newcomers and provides a soft landing for the socially rusty. "Especially coming out of the pandemic, we had a lot of people in their mid-30s [who] were like, 'I have no way to connect with anyone,'" says Elliott Kaplan, TPK's CEO and one of its three founders. "Well, we'll throw you at a table. All the social interactions will be overseen by a GM."
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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
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.
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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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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fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Ayar: Children of the Sun Review

Ayar is a strategic board game where four Incan sibling pairs traverse Lake Titicaca to Cusco, performing activities while one pair is eliminated each round.
fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Oh No, We Crashed! Review

Oh No, We Crashed! has simple setup and it varies by planet. The spaceship standee is placed in the middle of the table; the system cards are placed face up around the ship and then component cards are placed face down around the component cards. The timer is then set by player count and players read the special rules (if any) on the planet the players crashed.
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