WordPress.org blog: WordPress 6.9 Release Candidate 2
The second Release Candidate (“RC2”) for WordPress 6.9 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead,…
Teasers for Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged 2025
by W. Eric Martin PAX Unplugged 2025 takes place on Nov. 21-23 in Philadelphia, and among the 400+ listings on BGG’s PAXU 2025 Preview are multiple listings for independent productions that will be available solely at Indie Games Night Market,…
Designer Diary: The Evolution of Nature
by Dominic Crapuchettes How a decade on the Magic Pro Tour and a decade designing the Evolution series led to my grail game. Hello, friends, Dominic here — designer of Nature, Evolution, Oceans, and Wits & Wagers. I want to…
Weston Ruter: WordPress 6.9 Performance Landings
WordPress 6.9 includes so many performance improvements! Scripts with fetchpriority, increased inline CSS, minified theme styles, on demand block styles in classic themes, the template enhancement output buffer, and much more! Check out the field guide I just published: WordPress…
Pax Unplugged: This year’s best panels for current and aspiring board game industry professionals
The last big board game convention of the year kicks off on Friday as Pax Unplugged returns to the Philadelphia Convention Center – and will feature its regular swathe of hundreds of panels, performances and tournaments in addition to the…
WPBeginner Growth Fund Exits Investment in Seahawk Media and Pro Services to Be Discontinued
Back in 2022, I announced that our WPBeginner Growth Fund had taken an investment stake in Seahawk Media, a promising WordPress services company. Our goal was to combine their service expertise with our platform to launch WPBeginner Pro Services and…
Matt: Rothko Chapel Garden
It’s been hard for me to write about Friday because it was so overwhelming, to see so many friends and loved ones and teachers and mentors there, including friends of my late Father’s I hadn’t seen in years, and to…
Game Review: Don’t Botch the Broccoli, or A Seven-Minute Steam Sale
by W. Eric Martin Given how much I liked designer Mark McGee‘s first release through his company How to Steam Broccoli — Tether, which I had backed during crowdfunding — when McGee offered a review copy of his second title…
Designer Diary: Khlor
by Alvaro G. Echave The Origin of the Idea For a long time, I wanted to design a game in which instead of assembling the game, it would gradually disappear. I had several notes, but the spark came when Ricardo,…
Game Preview: TEMBO: Survival on the Savanna
by W. Eric Martin While at SPIEL Essen 25, I got a preview of TEMBO: Survival on the Savanna, the next release from Danish design studio Sidekick Games, with this 1-4 player game coming from Mads Floe and Sidekick co-founders…
