Board games based on popular video game licenses, much like the recently released Borderlands, are — more often than not — a bit shit. The worst offenders are those that seek to directly port the ...

Tickets to the world’s largest board game fair, Germany’s SPIEL Essen 2025, sold out this year, with 220,000 people attending to get first looks at more than 1,700 new board games from 948 exhibitors, ...

Meet Jasper Schmich Kinney, your go-to tech guru and gaming aficionado. Jasper is a video game music composer, having collaborated with industry legends like Yasunori Nishiki (composer of the Octopath ...

Nathan is a lifelong gamer, harkening back to a misspent youth blasting Kirby Superstar and Super Mario All-Stars on his bedroom floor. Some of us are that old. This began a long-term love affair with ...

While Larian Studios may be commonly known these days as the developer behind last year's mega-hit Baldur's Gate 3 (a game we really liked), Divinity: Original Sin is what put them on the map. Back in ...

During the heyday of arcades, games were made to be played over and over again. Of course, back then they were specifically ...

Root belongs to a small but burgeoning subgenre of tabletop board games where players immerse themselves in the woodland worlds of mice, racoons and other wild critters. For the most part, these are ...

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Cyber Monday is here, and we’re updating this story hourly. To find the best deals in every category, follow all of our Cyber Monday coverage. It’s board-game season, when cold weather and early ...

Thanks to the pandemic, many of us entered our board game era in 2020, ushering in an unofficial resurrection of the classic tabletop activity. There are few indoor activities as fun and social as ...