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by Jeff Grisenthwaite Positano is a light strategy game about building resorts on the scenic Amalfi coast, so it seems appropriate to take the scenic route in how I created the game and teamed up with SlugFest Games to make it. Inspiration I keep a ...

by W. Eric Martin UK Games Expo 2025 ended June 1 -- that is, yesterday from when I'm writing this note -- and Origins Game Fair 2025 runs June 18-22 ...

by W. Eric Martin In a late May 2025 post, I suggested an article called "Hot Take: Reviewers Aren't Representative", and this review is an example of just that, with German publisher AMIGO offering me the chance to play a game before it's released ...

by W. Eric Martin - I've already covered two Norwegian releases for SPIEL Essen 25, so let's move on to a third, this time from Vegard Eliassen Stillerud, Eilif Svensson, and Åsmund Svensson, with the latter two being owners of publisher Chilifox ...

by W. Eric Martin - In mid-April 2025, Office Dog announced a new Reiner Knizia design set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth -- The Hobbit: There and Back Again. Here's an overview of this late September 2025 release: The Hobbit: There & Back Again is ...

by W. Eric Martin - In September 2024, publisher Sorry We Are French released 365 Adventures: The Dungeon - 2025, a combination calendar/adventure game from Juhwa Lee in which a solo player fights one monster a day. U.S. publisher Pandasaurus Games ...

by W. Eric Martin - Ravensburger has released details on two standalone Villainous titles that will join its catalog in Q3 2025. Disney Villainous: Treacherous Tides features the first live-action villain in the series -- Davy Jones from The Pirates ...

by W. Eric Martin On May 28, 2025, U.S. publisher Tabletop Tycoon -- which releases games under the brands Starling Games, Victory Point Games, Sparkworks, and Flying Meeple -- announced that it has purchased several lines of games from CMON,

by W. Eric Martin To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Vlaada Chvátil's Codenames, publisher Czech Games Edition has revamped the three main titles in the Codenames line: the original game that won the 2016 Spiel des Jahres (among many other awards ...

by W. Eric Martin - Deckers is a new edition of Richard Wilkins' 2018 game Renegade from Victory Point Games, a game that somehow passed me by completely. Ah, well, thanks to today's reprint-and-revision market, everyone will get a second or third ...