Designer Diary: Beastro
by Matteo Uguzzoni Beastro is a team-based, trick-taking game with hidden roles where you have to figure out who is on your team, outsmart the other players, and collect as many tricks as possible for your team. You play as…
Designer Diary: VNTYPL8S
by Clarence Simpson 1NSP1R3D In a way, VNTYPL8S was born out of necessity. VNTYPL8S exists, in no small part, due to the fact that I committed to playtest a game that didn’t exist yet. The Unpub Festival in Baltimore is…
WordPress.org blog: WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 3
The third Release Candidate (“RC3”) for WordPress 7.0 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,…
“Reality has definitely exceeded our expectations”: Board game awards magnet SETI rockets past 100,000 sales
Tomáš Holek’s space exploration eurogame SETI has surged past 100,000 copies sold, following a triumphant 2025 in which it cleaned up across a string of major board game awards. SETI publisher Czech Games Edition told BoardGameWire it had ordered bigger than usual,…
Open Channels FM: Building Business Fortitude and Creativity in Digital Marketing
This episode of Open Channels FM emphasizes fortitude in business, highlighting tenacity, creativity, and resilience as key to breaking through digital noise and getting noticed, with practical advice. Sorry, You're not allowed to submit vote ! Total 0 Votes 0…
WordCamp Central: WordCamp Kampala 2026: Tech for Social Good in a Rapidly Evolving Digital World
WordCamp Kampala 2026 returns as a gathering of the region’s WordPress community, bringing together developers, designers, content creators, entrepreneurs, educators, and tech enthusiasts for two days of learning, collaboration, and impact. Organized by the WordPress Kampala Meetup, this community-driven event…
WordCamp Central: A Journey to Remember: My WordCamp Asia 2026 Experience in Mumbai
When I first received the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship, it didn’t feel real. The idea that I would travel to Mumbai, India, for WordCamp Asia 2026 as a volunteer, fully supported, was both exciting and overwhelming. The Kim Parsell Memorial…
Asmodee continues social game expansion push, buys rights to Time’s Up! from R&R Games
Asmodee has agreed to buy the rights to party game Time’s Up! from R&R Games, continuing an expansion push predicated on social games being the fastest growing category of the board games market. Time’s Up!, first published by R&R in…
Be the Gulo of the Sandcastle Kingdom
by Steph Hodge ▪️ Pandasaurus Games always has a lot of really cool games in the pipeline, and they recently announced a few titles being released this summer, but don’t forget about their other just-released titles as well! ▪️ Shackleton…
Long-running publisher, retailer networking event Alliance Open House rebrands to Universal Summit US
Alliance Open House, the tabletop publisher and retailer networking event launched more than 25 years ago by Alliance Game Distributors, has rebranded to Universal Summit US in the wake of Alliance’s takeover by Canada’s Universal Distribution. Board game, TCG and…
