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by Jacopo Sarli Monopoly, Risk, Scrabble -- these were the board games I knew when I decided to create my own. Inspiring, right? The idea came to me one morning when I woke up remembering something that happened to me in primary school. I was eight ...

by W. Eric Martin - The Malice of Light Adventures will be the debut title of new publisher Twin Tale Studios, which is owned and run by twin designers Adam and Brady J. Sadler. The setting for the game comes from Brady Sadler's six-book fantasy ...

by Simon As with many games, it is astonishing to look back at the origins of Bayou Boss and realize that I started with a completely different idea! Bayou Boss is a trick-taking game with three twists, which I'll come to in a moment. As a recap, a ...

by W. Eric Martin - U.S. publisher Thames & Kosmos has announced two new releases that will debut at Gen Con 2026, with the headliner being The Crew: Journey to the Ends of the Earth, a standalone sequel to Thomas Sing's 2019 game The Crew: The Quest ...

by W. Eric Martin - Daniel Newman of New Mill Industries says that after releasing sixteen titles in 2025 -- both original games and new editions of older titles -- he's scaling back, with only two titles coming out in each half of 2026 and with ...

by W. Eric Martin - In the first half of 2026, Allan and Jared Pincus will release Computer Junkyard, the first title from Dream Egg Games, which was crowdfunded on April 2025. Here's an overview of this 2-4 player game: You found a box of old ...

by W. Eric Martin Cover not final- Norwegian publisher Chilifox Games is trying to get the jump on others by announcing its SPIEL Essen 26 release at the start of January. Here's an overview of Wild World: Wild World is a dynamic 1-4 player strategy ...

by Emanuele Ornella A Second Beginning Assyria's second edition began for me on October 18, 2023, with a simple Geekmail from Shem Phillips asking about my old game Assyria and mentioning that Garphill Games might be interested in bringing it back.

by Saigo Editor's note: Game Market took place in Chiba Prefecture in the greater Tokyo area on November 22-23, 2025, and Saigo -- who translates game rules between Japanese and English and who tweets about new JP games -- has translated two reports ...

by Dan Manfredini Alien Origins Some of my designs begin with a single starting point. Xenology, which Play to Z released in December 2025, began with several. Every once in a while, I sift through my old design notes and sketches. Revisiting them ...