Want More Sales or Signups? I Tried 11 Best Conversion Optimization Tools
“Why aren’t people buying?” That’s the question that kept me up at night when I first started my online business. My WordPress website looked good, traffic was coming in, but I wasn’t getting a lot of conversions. It wasn’t until…
Got Five? I’ll Give You a Clue about Blue Orange’s 2026 Games
by W. Eric Martin At SPIEL Essen 25, the European branch of Blue Orange Games gave me an overview of recent and upcoming game releases, with Got Five! — due out in March 2026 — being a Yoann Levet deduction…
Matt: Chop Wood, Carry Water
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. Kyle Kowalski has an amazing blog post exploring many aspects of this Zen Kōan, including some diversions into David Foster Wallace’s legendary commencement speech, This is Water. Sorry,…
Designer Diary: First-Class Letters, or Alphabetical Challenge, Finding Game’s Home, Minimal Rules
by Peter Hayward The more I design, the fewer rules I put into my games. Every time I playtest a game (mine or someone else’s), the first instinct is to solve a problem (any problem!) by adding a rule. If…
Matt: Creed Update
This week, the Automattic Creed received its first-ever update, which I’ll describe as a minor point upgrade. This is the sentence before and after. I am in a marathon, not a sprint, and no matter how far away the goal…
Matt: Wayback Machine Joint
Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and it’s a plugin I’d encourage you to install. As the plugin says: When a linked page disappears, the plugin helps preserve your user…
Gutenberg Times: Plugin Security, Divi to Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Gutenberg 21.9 and 22 — Weekend Edition 347
Hi there, On All Saints Day, November 1st, we honor dear people who passed. I wanted to take the occasion and point you to the WordPress Remembers page where accomplished contributors who passed have a permanent home. Their work lives…
SETI continues powerful awards run by beating Endeavor: Deep Sea, Bomb Busters to Deutscher Spiele Preis
Tomáš Holek’s space exploration eurogame SETI has continued its triumphant tour of the 2025 board game awards scene by securing this year’s Deutscher Spiele Preis, the biggest community-voted board game award in Germany. SETI took top spot at the long-running…
Asmodee continues push into crowdfunding by buying Cthulhu: Death May Die series from struggling CMON
Board game giant Asmodee has continued its push into the crowdfunding space by picking up the Cthulhu: Death May Die IP and games from financially-troubled CMON – a series which has raised almost $10m from backers to date. The buyout…
“Production will stop, shipments will be frozen, and some companies may not make it”: board game industry braces for further pain after Trump threatens 130% tariffs on China
Board game companies already labouring under the pain of elevated US tariffs on China have seen their future plans thrown into chaos yet again, after President Trump threatened an imminent hike of the rate to 130%. Trump said he plans…
