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by W. Eric Martin - In March 2025, UK illustrator and author Owen Davey crowdfunded Fame & Fable, with copies currently anticipated to reach backers in Q2 2026 and presumably available elsewhere after that. The publisher's game overview is minimal:

by Tom Lehmann Dark Pact is a deck-building game for 1-4 occult researchers seeking to make pacts with otherworldly forces. The game includes thirteen dark pacts, and the first player to obtain and satisfy a dark pact's condition wins. An Occultist's ...

by W. Eric Martin - On Dec. 31, 2025, Jamey Stegmaier hosted a preview video of Stonemaier Games' 2026 release schedule, giving teasers for each title, with more info to come as each game nears release. In chronological order: - January 21: The ...

by W. Eric Martin - U.S. publisher Bitewing Games has revealed its next collaboration with designer Reiner Knizia: Gold Country, which this being a re-implementation of 2012's Spectaculum that has been "reworked from the ground up", according to ...

by W. Eric Martin With January 2026 one tick of the calendar away -- depending on when you're reading this post, of course -- thoughts turn to the tsunami of crowdfunding projects that will soon be reaching out for backers. Here's a handful of what I ...

by Greyfax To update my previous announcement, this is actually the last column I'll be doing. I didn't get additional questions, and as I said previously I'm out of ideas. Thanks for reading! I've edited the following question for gender: One of my ...

by Paul Schulz Over the last five years, six trivia games of my design were published -- and even more are on the way, with many more ideas still in my head. It's time to take a breath and reflect: How did I make the games, what went wrong, and what ...

by W. Eric Martin The BoardGameGeek database lists more than three hundred trick-taking games as being released in 2025. Add in all the ladder climbing games, as I would do automatically when talking about trick-taking games, and you could ...

by Joseph Bugbee Hey, everyone, With TacTile blowing up on BGA, a lot of people have been asking about the creative process and where the idea for TacTile came from, so I've written this post to shed a little light on the game's backstory and share a ...

by Ferran Renalias Zueras Editor's note: With apologies to the designers, I'm publishing the diary they submitted in 2022 and that I have somehow overlooked until now. --WEM Welcome to the designer diary for Insecta: The Ladies of Entomology, a game ...