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…
Gutenberg Times: WordPress 6.9 Dev Notes, WordCamp Canada talks, Interactivity API — Weekend Edition #349
Hi there, We are getting close to the WordPress 6.9 release. Below you find links to published Developer notes. You can also wait for the Source of Truth to be published next week to learn about besides developer changes coming…
WordPress Broke Your Site? Here’s a 5-Minute Rollback Plan
You update WordPress expecting everything to run more smoothly, but instead…your website seems broken. Maybe the layout has shifted, a plugin stopped working, or you’re suddenly seeing error messages. It’s frustrating, but it’s also very common. Most WordPress crashes look…
Matt: Kanye’s Back
In case you missed it, Kanye has started apologizing for the event he went through. I didn’t comment on it publicly when it happened because it seemed so strange to me that such a beautiful soul, who had created so…
Designer Diaries: Tropicalia and Sinister Institute, or Two Games Nineteen Years in the Making!
by Phil Walker-Harding I was fortunate to have two new games launch at SPIEL Essen 25: Tropicalia and Sinister Institute. Both of these games have long development histories — eleven and eight years respectively! — and I learned a lot…
