News Flash: New Games from Funnybone Toys, Trends at NY Toy Fair
Submitted by Naomi Laeuchli on 02/26/2016 - 08:55. Category: News
- Funnybone Toys have announced four games to be released this year: Anaxi, in which words are connected in unique ways, Spirot, a game inspired by pixel art, the next member of the Arrazzles series, Under the Sea, and a new memory game, Melvin+Simon.
- The Game Aisle takes two looks at the trends appearing in board games at this year's New York Toy Fair.
- Z-Man Games has posted a video interview with Matt Leacock about his new social game Knit Wit.
- New reviews this week of Burgle Bros. (Cog Gaming), Evolution (Queens of Nerdcraft), and Star Realms: Colony Wars (Meeple Town).
- The furniture company Geek Chic made a surprising move into the game publishing business, announcing that they've purchased Crash Games.
- CBS ran a piece on the designer of Gamewright's Dragonwood.
- The board game Patchwork has been given a digital adaption for Windows mobile devices and PCs.
- This blog post takes a look at how gaming has evolved over the years, using Risk as an example of how it's influenced more modern games.
- Geek and Sundry has hunted up five retro (and humorous) commercials for old board games. At least some had catchy songs!
