by W. Eric Martin - Spanish designer Unai Rubio has had a few titles published since 2016 -- Caper, Caper: Europe, and It's Mine -- and in 2026 he'll launch his own publishing company, Unair Games, with The Idles ...
by Greyfax Today I'm going to talk about what disabilities I have that have affected my boardgaming. I am hard of hearing. I also (currently -- I finally got the proper medication that should eventually fix it) suffer from brain fog (not cognitive ...
by Matt Leacock Origins Matt Leacock: The idea for Animal Rescue Team began in a conversation with my family as we walked our family dog (1) around the block. I brought up the fact that the license for my game, Thunderbirds had run out, so I had the ...
by Magnus Karlsson Hi there, welcome to this designer diary for The Plank. I hope you enjoy it! My name: Magnus Karlsson I live in: Vikingstad, a small village in eastern Sweden, with my wife Frida, two teenagers, and two cats My Age: Getting close ...
by W. Eric Martin Time to catch up on a handful of announcements from the past month: - In early November 2025, San Diego Historical Games Convention, a.k.a. SDHist, gave its fourth annual Summit Award to War Story: Occupied France, a 1-6 player game ...
by OnJoueTu How Did It Start? Mathieu Bieri: The story of Naishi is a story of chance encounters and happenstance. I had been working on a prototype for a game called "Drakkar" that had a simple principle of five tiles on a card stand that would ...
by W. Eric Martin - To follow up an earlier November 2025 post, KOSMOS has now revealed more of its early 2026 line-up. Klaus Teuber's Catan Dice Game, which first appeared in 2007, will be re-released as CATAN: Das Würfelspiel, with this edition ...
by W. Eric Martin - As German publishers prep for Spielwarenmesse -- the annual toy fair in Nürnberg, Germany at the end of January -- they're starting to promote what's coming, with AMIGO Spiel teasing the four titles it plans to release in early ...
by W. Eric Martin Sjoerd Yska's Badass Bunnies from 999 Games gives you a simple goal: Reveal at least ten bunnies from your deck of cards in a single turn. You start with only two bunnies, though, so you'll need to pick up more as quickly as you can ...