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fromKotaku
1 day 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
2 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.
Parenting
fromKotaku
3 days ago

8 Things To Never Say To An Adult Lego Fan - Kotaku

Adult fans of Lego, known as AFOLs, significantly contribute to Lego's success, driven by nostalgia and disposable income.
DC food
fromKotaku
6 days ago

Dimension 20 Is Finally Doing A Vampire: The Masquerade Campaign

Dimension 20's next campaign, City Council of Darkness, will feature Vampire: The Masquerade, marking a significant shift from its usual D&D system.
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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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fromKotaku
4 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.
fromKotaku
4 days ago

New Lego Contest Teases Big Pokemon TCG Crossover

Lego has announced a new Lego Ideas contest that will see one fan's Pokémon card build turned into a real set. The so-called 'Pokémon Trading Card Game Challenge' is all about fans submitting designs for Lego sets of between 400 and 2500 pieces that recreate an original 'dynamic' Pokémon TCG card.
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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.
#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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fromBoard Game Quest
2 weeks ago

Parks and Potions Review

Parks and Potions combines beautiful art, fantasy themes, and engaging potion-crafting mechanics where players collect and combine potions to heal fantastical creatures over six rounds for scoring.
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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.
#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.
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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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.
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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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

A gaming success story': how Warhammer became one of Britain's biggest companies

So popular is the fantasy game that its parent company Games Workshop is valued at a staggering 6bn and is almost ever-present on British high streets. The fact a niche interest game invented by self-confessed geeks has become a huge global business is a story almost as unbelievable as those played out on its customers' kitchen tables. Games Workshop started as a mail order board games company run by three friends
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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.
#card-game
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Warhammer Maker Doesn't Want AI Anywhere Near Its Creative Work For Now

We do have a few senior managers that are [experts on AI]: none are that excited about it yet. We have agreed an internal policy to guide us all, which is currently very cautious, e.g., we do not allow AI-generated content or AI to be used in our design processes or its unauthorized use outside of GW, including in any of our competitions,
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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.
Video games
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.
#hytale
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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.
#magic-the-gathering
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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.
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

How To Get Into The Arc Raiders Locked Gate On Blue Gate

You need to find the security codes at these locations. Once you arrive at one of these POIs, loot every container there until you or another player finds that location's code, then move to the next POI. Do your best to work together with other players in the lobby to prevent unnecessary overlap--meaning that if you see someone else, always ask if they've found one of the codes, or offer to split up and find codes at different POIs to keep things moving efficiently.
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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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fromGameSpot
2 months ago

The Best Roblox Survival Games To Play Endlessly

The best overall Roblox games encompass every type of genre and gameplay experience imaginable, including even survival games. That's right, if you are looking for the best Roblox survival games, you will find they are some of the most profoundly engaging and memorable experiences on the entire platform.
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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.
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Dev Doesn't Just Want To Be People-Pleaser With Next Game

Creatively, we've always let our North Star be our own personal taste in terms of what we think is cool--what it is we enjoy and want to see. I've seen too many TV shows and books be swayed trying to please a lot of people, and in the process you end up losing the heart of what's there,
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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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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.
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
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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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.
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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fromInverse
2 months ago

'Two Players Accidentally Cheated': How The New Catan Expansion Put My Friendships To The Test

Settlers of Catan’s 30th‑anniversary sixth edition bundles major expansions, adding complex mechanics (barbarians, knights, skill trees) and a compact 15‑minute travel version.
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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

Clans of Caledonia: Industria Expansion Review

So with an expansion recently released, we were itching to whip out our Clans of Caledonias and bolt trains onto them. For Science! Clans of Caledonia: Industria, from Juma Al-JouJou and published by Karma Games, is the first expansion for Clans of Caledonia. "First expansion" is in bold text in the English rulebook, so perhaps Juma is cooking up more content.
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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.
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