Rank Your Friends, Help a Bee, Solve Circus Crime, and Twist a Temple to Solve Its Mysteries
by W. Eric Martin To follow up on early January 2026’s post about three titles due out in the U.S. from Thames & Kosmos — The Gang: More Players, The Gang: Deluxe Edition, and The Crew: Journey to the Ends…
Matt: Matt 4.2
It’s that time of the year again for a new version release. Forty-two is a fun number, of course, famous from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I’m in Miami, where I’m attending a conference by Richard Saul Wurman. I…
Designer Diary: Children of the Colossi
by Jacopo Sarli Monopoly, Risk, Scrabble — these were the board games I knew when I decided to create my own. Inspiring, right? The idea came to me one morning when I woke up remembering something that happened to me…
Matt: Classical Accordian
So my new obsession is a Ukrainian-born musician, Alexander Hrustevich, who plays a type of chromatic Russian accordion called a Bayan. He plays incredible transcriptions of classical pieces, replicating the parts of an entire orchestra with just two hands. If…
Matt: Mad Ones
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing,…
Prepare for Conflict in Brawlhalla, Fallout, and The Malice of Light
by W. Eric Martin ▪️ The Malice of Light Adventures will be the debut title of new publisher Twin Tale Studios, which is owned and run by twin designers Adam and Brady J. Sadler. The setting for the game comes…
8 Best WhatsApp Plugins for WordPress (I Tested Them All)
A few months ago, I needed to add WhatsApp chat to my WordPress site. It sounded simple at first, but once I started looking, things got messy quickly. There were dozens of plugins that looked similar, vague feature lists, and…
Designer Diary: Bayou Boss, or Getting Swamped with Ideas
by Simon As with many games, it is astonishing to look back at the origins of Bayou Boss and realize that I started with a completely different idea! Bayou Boss is a trick-taking game with three twists, which I’ll come…
Matt: Small Hit
The NY Times has a profile of John Ternus as a possible successor to Tim Cook that has a number of ridiculous lines; it’s quite bad, but this is one of my favorites: Apple has had many small hits under…
Collect Your Crew and Grab Your Gang for New Adventures in 2026
by W. Eric Martin ▪️ U.S. publisher Thames & Kosmos has announced two new releases that will debut at Gen Con 2026, with the headliner being The Crew: Journey to the Ends of the Earth, a standalone sequel to Thomas…
