Year: 2026

Open Channels FM: What Can You Learn From 4.4 Million Words?

In this episode, Bob Dunn discusses utilizing 4.4 million words from Open Channels FM’s podcasts and blog posts. He highlights tools like Jetpack AI Search and Site Chat, enhancing users’ access to valuable insights and discussions. Sorry, You're not allowed…

Railway Boom beats Fate of the Fellowship, Take Time to win International Gamers Award

Bomb Busters designer Hisashi Hayashi has followed up last year’s Spiel des Jahres triumph with another significant award win, after Railway Boom was named the International Gamers Awards’ best multiplayer game for 2026. The Arclight Games title is a reworking…

Ukrainian board game studio born during Russian invasion breaks into US hobby distribution with ACD deal

Ukrainian board game studio Boardova has broken into US hobby distribution through ACD, four years after being launched by two volunteers who met while supporting refugees and Ukraine’s army in the wake of Russia’s invasion. ACD has added the Lviv-based…

OpenStation Blog: WordPress Has Been Missing This for 15 Years

tl;dr: 15 years stuck in the same wp-admin, why don’t you try in playground the new wp-admin experience? WordPress has spent the last fifteen years becoming capable of doing almost everything, yet somehow we have continued interacting with wp-admin in…

Open Channels FM: Open Source Champions

The Open Source Champions initiative invites individuals and brands to support the network through a unique advocacy opportunity, offering exposure, promotional features, and participation in special episodes. Sorry, You're not allowed to submit vote ! Total 0 Votes 0 0…

Behind the Hype: Rawan Anbar, Gigamic

by Justin Bell Welcome to my second edition of “Behind the Hype”; if you missed the first, I spoke with Eveline Foubert at Mighty Boards a few months ago. This week, I’m sharing a conversation I had with my friend…

Designer Diary – Crossing Heroes

by BGG Cranio Diary written by Johannes Goupy & Matthieu Verdier Crossing Heroes is our second game together after Odysseus, a family game published in France by Gigamic in September 2026. While both games reflect our love of Greek mythology…

Gutenberg Times: Gutenberg 24.0, the road to 7.2, a new default theme named Ipsum, and more—Weekend Edition 377

Howdy, Before anything else: if you maintain WordPress sites, go update them. WordPress 7.1.2 shipped on September 22 to patch a single critical vulnerability in page template resolution, one that lets an unauthenticated attacker load a chosen PHP file from…

Designer Diary – Oil Rock

by BGG Cranio Diary written by Marco Piola Caselli If I had to describe in a few words the process that turned Oil Rock into the game it is today, I’d say it’s a story of oil, ambition, and collaboration….

Dennis Snell: Enter the mess: Shortcodes

Tonight I started working on some Shortcode processing in WordPress. This is an historically nasty problem because the Shortcode syntax and parsing is wildly dynamic. Shortcode syntax is only technically recognized for shortcodes registered at the time of parsing. This…