Matt: Buffett Thanksgiving
Choose your heroes very carefully and then emulate them. You will never be perfect, but you can always be better. I’m an unabashed fan of Warren Buffett and the late Charlie Munger, I even have bronze busts of them in…
Indie Games Spotlight: Game Market West (Fall 2025)
by Johnny Chin In September 2025, Game Market West, a tabletop game market where independent designers showcase and sell their newest games, returned to Guildhouse in San Jose, California. The venue received a lot of compliments this time around from…
Enlarge The Gang, Take a Happy Holiday in Europe, and Engineer Wild Growth
by W. Eric Martin With SPIEL Essen 25 barely two weeks behind us, German publisher KOSMOS has started teasing new games coming in early 2026, starting with The Gang: More Players, an expansion for John Cooper and Kory Heath‘s co-operative…
WordPress.org blog: WordPress 6.9 Release Candidate 1
The first Release Candidate (“RC1”) for WordPress 6.9 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is still under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites….
CMON share sale to raise company funds falls through for the second time this year
Financially-troubled board game publisher CMON‘s latest attempt to sell new shares to raise capital for the business has fallen through. Hong Kong-listed CMON had hoped to sell more than 360 million newly-created shares in a process which would have valued…
Open Channels FM: Insights Into Successfully Rebranding Your Podcast
Rebranding a podcast involves much more than updating a logo or picking a new name. It is a transformative process that requires thoughtful planning, flexibility, and perseverance. One of the most revealing parts of the journey is the way it…
Designer Diary: Pacts
by Ben Brin There exists a paradox in game design. You are simultaneously the most knowledgeable and least knowledgeable person about your game. On one hand, you are intimately familiar with every detail. You have opinions about how a single…
Matt: Bending Spoons
The story of what Bending Spoons has built is very impressive, and I’m a customer of theirs through Evernote, WordPress uses Meetup a ton. I think Automattic’s Noho office used to belong to Meetup. They’ve built an incredible engineering and…
Amigo Spiele shuffles top leadership again as 36-year company veteran Joachim Ulbrich announces retirement
Veteran German board game publisher Amigo Spiele has restructured its top leadership for the second time since the start of last year, after long-serving executive Joachim Ulbrich revealed he will retire at the end of 2025. Ulbrich, who has been…
WordCamp Central: WordPress Udupi Community Empowers 300+ Students Across Coastal Karnataka Through Campus Connect
As the lead organiser representing the WordPress Udupi Community, I had the incredible opportunity to bring WordPress Campus Connect to college campuses across Coastal Karnataka.What began as a small idea soon became a mission – to introduce WordPress, open source,…
