Ghostbusters: The Board Game already has $400,000 pledged on Kickstarter, Victory Point Games is having a Valentine’s Sale, and Cheapass Games has released two new free print-and-plays.
Spell Saga, a Kickstarter-backed story based card game, is available for pre-order, WizKids has released a new dice building game, and Fireside Games has posted a preview of their new Castle Panic expansion.
"I totally 'dig' it!!" Allow me to introduce Gold Mine, an entry from Stratus Games that explores the interactions between players in a cooperative/competitive game of gathering gold.
Stronghold Games is releasing a drawing-based board game, The Settlers of Catan turns twenty this year, and Across the Board Games writes an interesting article about art in games.
Submitted by charlie on 01/29/2015 - 15:44. Category: Articles
How Unpub has improved Planet Chasers, a game of solar system exploration in which all players share the same dice roll to move their rockets, but must decide when to spend fuel to use the full roll.
Passport Game Studios releases two casual games this week, Monopoly is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year and Mayfair has a new game for pre-order.
In this Closet Report, our attention turns to an elegant and soon-to-be classic board game, Qin, an easy-to-play, easy to understand game of matching wits.
Submitted by charlie on 01/22/2015 - 14:22. Category: Articles
FireBreak is a cooperative forest fire fighting game. It was made better over a series of Unpub events because of designers and players who were willing to play it and offer constructive feedback.
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